No.1530 (JV) – Julia's Fairies

No.1530
Julia Vysotska
(Latvia)

Original Fairy problems
JF-2020-II:
01.07.2020 - 31.12.2020

pieces	'Neutral piece', 'Nightrider(N)'	фигуры
Neutral piece:	Belongs to whichever side chooses to use it. It can therefore be moved or captured by White or Black, and in Circe it is reborn according to capture. A King may not be moved onto a square controlled by a neutral piece, because of self-check.	Нейтральная фигура. Принадлежит той стороне, которая его использует. Таким образом, может ходить за любую сторону или быть взятой любой из сторон. В Circe поле возврата определяется взятием. Король не может ходить на поле, контролируемое нейтральной фигурой, т.к. это является самошахом.
Nightrider(N):	(1,2) Rider. Operates along straight lines with squares lying a Knight's move away from each other.	Всадник. Линейная фигура (1,2). Играет по прямым линиям с полями, находящимися на расстоянии хода коня друг от друга.
conditions	'Take & Make'	условия
Take & Make:	Having captured, a unit must immediately, as part of its move, play a non-capturing move in imitation of the captured unit from the capture-square. If no such move is available, the capture is illegal. Promotion by capture occurs only when a pawn arrives on the promotion rank as the result of a take&make move. Checks are as in normal chess: after the notional capture of the checked K, the checking unit does not move away from the King's square.	Взяв другую, фигура должно немедленно, как часть хода, сделать ход без взятия, имитируя движение взятой фигуры с поля взятия. Если такой ход невозможен — взятие нелегально. Превращение при взятии происходит тольео в случае, если пешка попадает на линию превращения в результате take&make хода. Шах — как в нормальной игре: после условного взятия находящегося под шахом короля, берущая фигура не уходит с поля короля.

No. 1530 Julia Vysotska
Latvia
original - 18.08.2020

black Rc1 Pa2b3f5b7 Be3 Kg4 neutral Bb1 Nc7 white Pg2g3 Kg6

h#1.5 2 solutions 3+7+2
Take & Make
Neutral Bishop b1
Neutral Nightrider c7

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Julia

August 25, 2020 21:25

I have got some suggestions about this problem in emails. Thanks to all of you who tried to make something more out of this idea!
Have to tell for now my favorite version is one of two offered by Daniel Papack – No. 1 (wKd8 bKf8). While Daniel himself prefers No.2!
Well, No.2 is more economical. But visually I like No.1 much more, these lines of bB-nR and bR-nB look cute to me; the play in both solutions perfectly matching.
It’s really hard to add some more half-move without making it very much artificial. In theory, I’d like to have it made by the same neutral piece as next 3 half-moves, but it doesn’t look to be possible. Or maybe would ask for much more of material and would be too expensive.

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