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/

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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. 

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9-17th of December, 2017

  • (17.12) No.1261 – Günther Weeth (-17 & #1 Proca; Anti-Circe).
  • (14.12) No.1260 – Aleksey Oganesjan (hs#4). “hs# with Monkey AUW” (Author)
  • (11.12) No.1259 – Oliver Sick (h#3; Argentinian Chess). “Argentinian Valladao.” (Author)
  • (09.12) No.1258 – Georgy Evseev (h#2.5; Transmuted Kings). “A royal queen is to be checkmated, in the end.” (Author)

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. 

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3rd of December, 2017

  • (03.12) No.1257 – Nicolas Dupont (PG 17; Black reflex #).
  • (03.12) No.1256 – Gani Ganapathi (h#2; Friend).
  • (03.12) No.1255 – Vito Rallo (h#2.5; HurdleColourChanging Grasshopper).
  • (03.12) No.1254 – Bosko Miloseski (s#2; Maximummer).

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. 

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19-20th of November, 2017

  • (20.11) No.1247.1 – Bosko Miloseski (h#3; Grasshopper). A new version to No.1247.
  • (20.11) No.1253 – Bernd Gräfrath (PG 11; Losing Chess). Dedicated to François Labelle for the help with his program, Jacobi.
  • (20.11) No.1252 – Gani Ganapathi (PG 6; Disparate). “The final position of Black and White are mirrored!” (Author)
  • (19.11) No.1251 – Vitaly Medintsev (hs#3,5). The black Queen smartly intercepts the roles of Bishop/Rook.
  • (19.11) No.1250 – Mario Parrinello & Ofer Comay (h#2; Sirene; Neutral Sirene; Nightrider-Locust). “…inspired by Mario’s 8th Prize in StrateGems 2015… shows similar mates like in the original problem, but the strategy is different.” (Ofer Comay)

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. 

The judge of JF-10/2017-03/2018

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The Judge of JF fairy tournament 10/2017-03/2018

After a long time… the one who was the first judge ever of JF’s fairy tournament, had to analyze about 200 fairy problems and finished the Award in a year after competition, is kindly accepting this job again! I’m very glad to announce the judge of current fairy tournament, JF-10/2017-03/2018 – famous Indian composer, International Master of FIDE – Shankar Ram! To the words I’ve written about Shankar in 2012, he’s added the following: 

  • From 2012, Got back to composing, judging, article writing, getting in touch with chess problem friends
  • Current interest: Acquiring new gadgets and porting Popeye to them!

Wishing a pleasant work for the judge, and creative provigil ideas to the authors! – Julia

The judges of the future fairy tournaments:
JF-2018/II, 01.07-31.12.2018: Kjell Widlert | JF-2019/I, 01.01-30.06.2019: Michal Dragoun

Originals 11-131117

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11-13th of November, 2017

  • (13.11) No.1249 – Jacques Rotenberg (#2; Superguards). Warm welcome to Jacques in Original problems section of JF!
  • (12.11) No.1248 – Peter Harris (h#2,5; Circe; Sentinelles PionAdvers; Transmuted Kings; Anti-Andernach).
  • (12.11) No.1146.2 – Paul Rãican (PG 17; Masand). Hopefully, the final version to No.1146, published after the end of tournament but before the award is made, accepted by the judge of PG/Retros 2015-16 Thomas Brand.
  • (11.11) No.1247 – Bosko Miloseski (h#3; Grasshopper). ODT by the pair of jumpers.
  • (11.11) No.1246 – Daniel Novomesky (h#4; Bicolores). Checked by the piece of the own side…

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 is not appointed yet. The judge of Retro & PG problems 2017-2018: Dirk Borst. 

Solving fairy proof games: “Jacobi” by François Labelle

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Dear retro friends,

I would like to introduce “Jacobi”, a new program that can solve fairy proof games. The home page is at http://wismuth.com/jacobi/ . The program is a web app that runs in your browser and requires no installation.

read more…

I hope that you find it useful! – François Labelle

Originals 281017

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28th of October, 2017

The day of retro problems! 🙂

  • (28.10) No.1245.1-5 – Andreas Thoma (-N/#1; Proca Retractor; Anticirce Cheylan). A selection (PDF) of 5 Proca Retractors with Anticirce Cheylan condition with the same idea. For the competition I’ve assigned numbers to original problems from No.1245.1 to 1245.5.
  • (22.06) No.1244.1-15 – Andreas Thoma (-N/#1; Proca Retractor; Anticirce Cheylan). A selection (PDF) of 15 Proca Retractors with Anticirce Cheylan condition, each using not more than 4 pieces on the board was presented by Andreas and published on 22.06.2017. For the competition I’ve assigned numbers to original problems from No.1244.1 to 1244.15.
  • (28.10) No.1146.1 – Paul Rãican (PG 17; Masand). The version to No.1146, published after the end of tournament but before the award is made, accepted by the judge of PG/Retros 2015-16 Thomas Brand.

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 is not appointed yet. The judge of Retro & PG problems 2017-2018: Dirk Borst.