November 2019 – Julia's Fairies

Originals 23;271119

Julia's Fairies original problems November 23, 2019 August 20, 2020 Leave a comment

Original Problems

23^rd,28^th of November, 2019

(27.11) No.1460 (h#2.5 ; Circe) – Manfred Rittirsch. “In memoriam Dieter Müller“
(23.11) No.1458 (ser-h#16 ; Berolina Pawn ; Circe Equipollents) & No.1459 (ser-h#26; Skylla, Charybdis ; Circe Equipollents) – Chris Feather. “Both are serieshelpmates using Equipollent Circe; under this condition there is nothing odd about two bishops on squares of the same colour, as in the first diagram. Like the first problem, the second shows a round trip by the black king, but otherwise it is quite different.” (Author)

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All previously published problems you can find in the subsections of Original Problems menu on the top. The judge of JF-2019/II: Petko Petkov. The judge of Retro & PG problems 2019-2020: Vlaicu Crișan.

Originals 171119

Julia's Fairies original problems November 17, 2019 August 20, 2020 Leave a comment

Original Problems

17^th of November, 2019

(17.11) No.1457 – Vladislav Nefyodov (ser-h#5 ; Circe Parrain). Any improvements are welcome! (Author)
(17.11) No.1456 – Ladislav Salai jr. & Michal Dragoun (h#2 ; Lion, Rook-Lion, Bishop-Lion). Glad to see the name of so very fast judge of JF-2019/I in this joint work!

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All previously published problems you can find in the subsections of Original Problems menu on the top. The judge of JF-2019/II: Petko Petkov. The judge of Retro & PG problems 2019-2020: Vlaicu Crișan.

“Vertrackte Retraktoren” by Andreas Thoma

External Events & Adds November 16, 2019 August 20, 2020 3 Comments

Have just received a wonderful book by Andreas Thoma “Vertrackte Retraktoren”! Though retractors are not my main interest, so nicely made 160 pages of the book, including 531 problem, articles and comics (by Claus Grupen) invite to have a closer look!

You’re welcome to buy it from Andreas, just contact him by e-mail: juanthoma@t-online.de.

JF 2019/I — Award

Awards, JF November 12, 2019 August 20, 2020 Leave a comment

Julia’s Fairies • Tournament JF 2019/I • Award

Michal Dragoun, Prague, October 2019

In Julia’s Fairies 2019/I tourney took part 43 problems. It is slightly less than in previous tournaments on Julia’s website and in my opinion, the quality of published problems was lower too. Not in general – I considered relatively high number of problems for low distinction – but I missed problems impressive at the first look.

→ to the Award…

Published with a gratitude to the judge, Michal Dragoun, for so exceptionally fast results! /Julia/

Originals 091119

Julia's Fairies original problems November 9, 2019 August 20, 2020 Leave a comment

Original Problems

9^th of November, 2019

(09.11) No.1455 – Yevhen Trakhtman (ser-h#12). I’d like to mention that Yevhen (born 1997) took part in two recent YCCC tournaments, winning the 3^rd place in Section #2 of the 4^th YCCC. Let’s welcome Yevhen in fairy chess too! And I’m specially glad to do it in Original problems of JF!

Animated diagrams use Py2Web by Dmitri Turevski and WinChloe’s graphics.

All previously published problems you can find in the subsections of Original Problems menu on the top. The judge of JF-2019/II: Petko Petkov. The judge of Retro & PG problems 2019-2020: Vlaicu Crișan.