Author: Julia

Original Problems

18^th of March, 2018

• (18.03) No.1290 – Juraj Lörinc  (r#8; Royal piece, Rookhopper, LEO). Only LEO and 4 Rookhoppers on the board.
• (18.03) No.1289 – Francesco Simoni  (h#3; Bishop-Lion, Rook-Lion). All in one: anti-batteries, critical moves, unpins, sacrifices… 

• (18.03) No.1287.1 – Jacques Rotenberg & Sébastien Luce (h#2; Take&Make). A new joint version of Jacques’s problem No.1287 to be considered for the tournament.
• (18.03) The problems No.1201,1201.1 – Andrew Buchanan  (h=3) – are moved from fairy tournament JF-2017/I to PG&Retro 2017-18 by request of the author “the problems are retro under Art 15 of the Codex“. Approved by the both judges, Tadashi Wakashima and Dirk Borst.

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Original Problems

10-11^th of March, 2018

• (11.03) No.1288 – Paul Rãican  (s#8; Rose). With the gratitude from your editor for the dedication 🙂
• (11.03) No.1287 – Jacques Rotenberg  (h#2; Take&Make).
• (11.03) No.1286 – Peter Harris  (hs#2; Sentinelles, Transmuted Kings, Super-Circe; Double Grasshopper). Published with the hint for solvers.

• (11.03) No.1285 – Sergej Smotrov  (hs#6). “18 Chameleon echo mates.” (Author)
• (11.03) No.1284 A+B – Kost?j Šoulivý  (h#2; Super-Circe; Radial Leaper, Empress, Camel). A pair of problems featuring combination of the same fairy elements, author’s recent research.
• (10.03) No.1283 – Vlaicu Cri?an & S.K.Balasubramanian (hs#3.5). In comparison with Michal Dragoun, 6^th Romanian Tzuica Ty, 1^st Prize…
• (10.03) No.1282.1 – Anatoly Stepochkin & Georgy Evseev (ser-h#12*; Grasshopper). A joint version to Anatoly’s problem No.1282.
• (10.03) No.1261.2 – Günther Weeth (-18 & #1 Proca; Anti-Circe). Version to No.1261.

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Original Problems

24-27^th of February, 2018

• (27.02) No.1282 – Anatoly Stepochkin (ser-h#10*; Grasshopper).
• (26.02) No.1281 – Andrew Buchanan & Henrik Juel (h#2; Patrol Chess). Warm welcome to Henrik in Original problems section of JF!
• (25.02) No.1280 – Sergey Shumeiko (h#2.5; Duelist Chess).
• (25.02) No.1279 – Paul Rãican (PG 5; Undefined pieces, Annan, Chess 960).
• (25.02) No.1278 – Jacques Rotenberg (h#2; Sentinelles PionAdvers; Transmuted Kings). Some differences in the implementation of the conditions in WinChloe and Popeye to analyze in this problem dedicated to Peter Harris.
• (24.02) No.1277 – Václav Kotěšovec (hs#11; Nightriderhopper; Grasshopper). The author I’m always grateful to for careful preparing of his works for publication.

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Original Problems

18-19^th of February, 2018

• (19.02) No.1276 – Ľuboš Kekely (h#2; Transmuted King, No capture).
• (18.02) No.1275 – K.Seetharaman (h#2; Take&Make).
• (18.02) No.1274 – Peter Harris (hs#3.5; Anti-Circe Cheylan, Isardam; Royal Double Grasshopper).
• (18.02) No.1273 – Sébastien Luce (ser-h#41*; Alphabetic Chess ; Grasshopper, Antelope). Dedicated to Chris Feather.

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Original Problems

4^th of February, 2018

• (04.02) No.1272 – Chris Feather (ser-h#21*; Alphabetic Chess ; Double Grasshopper). “The idea of this problem was to show some of the characteristics of the doublegrasshopper…”
• (04.02) No.1271 – Oliver Sick (PG 8; Masand). “…only the double pawn g3, g4 is a hint for fairy elements”
• (04.02) No.1270 – «Naturalia non sunt turpia» (h#2; Take&Make). The author(s) prefers to stay anonymous.

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Original Problems

13-20^th of January, 2018

• (20.01) No.1269 – Geoff Foster (h#2,5; Transmuted Kings). “Based on Georgy Evseev’s No.1258…” (Author)
• (20.01) No.1268 – Hubert Gockel (#2; Senora, Faro, Loco, Saltador). Argentinian pieces in direct mate.

• (16.01) No.1261.1 – Günther Weeth (-18 & #1 Proca; Anti-Circe). Version to No.1261. “Chess problem friends Evseev and Widlert are absolutely right in pointing at the cook in nr. 1261: 4……, a4:Xb3[b7]+!. The alleged short solution indicated by de Heer, however, seems to be an error. Here you will find an effort at correcting the problem. For further examination!” (Author)
• (14.01) No.1267 – Jacques Rotenberg (h#3; Circe, Sentinelles PionAdvers, Transmuted Kings, Anti-Andernach). “Inspired by the 1248 of Peter Harris” (Author)
• (13.01) Fairings No.57 – by Chris Feather (distribution: Stephen Emmerson), added to the Articles section!
• (13.01) No.1266 – Ľuboš Kekely (ser-hs#16; Transmuted King).

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