JURAJ BRABEC 80 JT C 31.12.2018

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JURAJ BRABEC 80 JT C 31.12.2018

Slovak Organisation for Chess Composition (SOKŠ) announces international jubilee tourney
on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Juraj Brabec (26.5.2018).

The tourney is announced for twomovers with changes (new-strategical twomovers) employing at least one „oblique grasshopper“ (the name “krivý cvrček” was invented by Juraj Lörinc). „Oblique grasshoppers“ differ from the ordinary grasshoppers by the fact that they turn direction of their move in the following way: moose (los) by 45°, eagle (orol) by 90°, sparrow (vrabec) by 135° and hamster (škrečok) by 180°. Utilization of other fairy elements is allowed; the tourney will be judged by jubilee Juraj Brabec. The entries should be sent by e-mail to the address of tourney director Juraj Lörinc juraj.lorinc@gmail.com until 31.12.2018. | See detailed announcement as web page and in PDF.

Originals 24-270218

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24-27th 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.

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-10/2017-3/2018: Shankar Ram. The judge of Retro & PG problems 2017-2018: Dirk Borst. 

Originals 18-190218

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18-19th 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.

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-10/2017-3/2018: Shankar Ram. The judge of Retro & PG problems 2017-2018: Dirk Borst. 

Originals 040218

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4th 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.

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-10/2017-3/2018: Shankar Ram. The judge of Retro & PG problems 2017-2018: Dirk Borst. 

Originals 13-200118

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13-20th 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).

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-10/2017-3/2018: Shankar Ram. The judge of Retro & PG problems 2017-2018: Dirk Borst. 

FIDE ALBUM 2013-2015 Fairies

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FIDE ALBUM 2013-2015
Results in section G – Fairies

A huge work under the results of FA 2013-2015 Fairy section is finished!
I believe, I may say from all of us a big Thank You! to the judges – Juraj Lörinc, Petko Petkov, Kjell Widlert – and the director of the section, Franz Pachl!

79 composers | 297 selected compositions | 1909 submitted entries | 1482 entries with > = 4,5 points | 297 entries with > = 8 points

Quartz 44 is online & Quartz TT11

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Quartz 44, December 2017, is online at:

http://quartz.chessproblems.ca/pdf/44/Quartz44.pdf

Don’t miss Quartz TT11:
Since 1996, Glasgow Chess was very poorly represented and our belief is that this genre has a lot of potential. So, we are launching a thematic tournament, Quartz TT11, for problems with Glasgow Chess rules.
The tourney has two sections: a) fairy problems; b) retro problems.
In both sections, combinations with other genres, fairy units, are allowed, but Vielväterstellung problems are not allowed.
Send problems in an unlimited number to our Director, Dinu-Ioan Nicula, e-mail: nicudin004@yahoo.com, up to July 1, 2018

ChessProblems.ca Bulletin – issue 13, December 2017

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Issue 13, December 2017, of the ChessProblems.ca Bulletin is now available online at http://Bulletin.ChessProblems.ca

Don’t miss CP.ca TT8: Required are compositions with one of the new series stipulations introduced in the article p.601-609. See details p.597.

The bulletin is published by Cornel Pacurar since March 2014 and is mainly dedicated to Fairies, Series-Movers in particular!

JF Retro 2015-2016 — Award

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Julia’s Fairies • Retro 2015-2016 • Award

by Thomas Brand, D-Bornheim

I’m very grateful to Julia for her invitation to judge this interesting fairy retro tourney: I’m convinced that carefully selected fairy conditions (more than fairy pieces) will extend the options for interesting retrograde analysis in the future. The most popular current example is AntiCirce with defensive retractors, but the general idea goes back to Thomas R. Dawson (whom else?), and gets more and more popular. → to the Award…

Published with a gratitude to the judge, Thomas Brand /Julia/

Originals 22-311217

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22nd; 28th; 31st of December, 2017

Happy New Year! The warmest wishes to all of you, dear JF’s judges, authors, readers, commentators, solvers… to your families and friends!

  • (31.12) No.1265 – Bosko Miloseski (s#3; Maximummer).
  • (31.12) No.1264 – Nicolas Dupont (Exact-ser-x2018, Reflex). New Year joke 🙂
  • (28.12) No.1263 – Michal Dragoun & Ladislav Salai jr. (h#2 ; Locust, Rook Locust, Bishop Locust).
  • (22.12) No.1262 – Michel Caillaud & Jean-Marc Loustau (#2 ; Grasshopper, Rookhopper, Bishophoppers; Anticircé Calvet/Cheylan).

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-10/2017-3/2018: Shankar Ram. The judge of Retro & PG problems 2017-2018: Dirk Borst.