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4-12th of May, 2016

  • (12.05) No.1067 – Kostěj Šoulivý (h#2; Empress; LEO; Zebra; Super-Circe).
  • (10.05) No.1066 – Peter Harris (hs#3,5; Royal piece; Lortap). Dedicated to Karl-Heinz Siehndel.
  • (08.05) No.1064,1065 – Krassimir Gandev. A festival of fairy pieces in two h#2 problems: No.1064 (h#2; Circe; Berolina Pawn; NAO; PAO; Dolphin), No.1065 (h#2; Royal Giraffe; Locust; Grasshopper-3; VAO; PAO).
  • (06.05) No.1063 – Peter Harris (hs#3; Chameleon Chess; Andernach; Isardam). Duplex with author’s comment.
  • (04.05) No.1062 – Peter Harris (h=2; Circe Chameleon; Chameleon Chess). With a gratitude for the dedication.
  • (04.05) No.1061 – Michael Grushko (hs#6; Circe Chameleon; Chameleon Chess; Einstein Chess; Republican Chess). Just 4 pawns in the initial position and combination of fairy conditions inspired by recent publications and discussions.

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 informal fairy tournament JF-2016(I) – Petko A. Petkov. The judge of Retro and PG problems 2015-2016 – Thomas Brand.

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logo-kobulchesskrassimir-gandevKoBulChess.com announces

The Award of Krassimir Gandev 70 JT 2016

“One of the best bulgarian composer of all time – IM Krassimir Gandev celebrated his 70th Anniversary a month ago. Now you can see here the Award of his Jubilee tourney 2016. The level is very high and the judge Gandev said that preparing this award was the most difficult in his practice!” (KoBulChess, 02.05.2016) 

Originals 02-300416

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2-30th of April, 2016

  • (30.04) No.1060 – Peter Harris (h=3.5; Circe Chameleon; Chameleon Chess; Isardam).
  • (28.04) No.1059 – Sébastien Luce (h#3.5; Neutral piece; Chameleon; Circe Chameleon). Dedicated to Geoff Foster.
  • (26.04) No.1058 – Geoff Foster (h#3; Neutral piece; Chameleon; Circe Chameleon). Dedicated to Peter Harris.
  • (24.04) No.1057 – Sébastien Luce (h#24.5; King-hopper; Pawn-hopper; Nightrider-hopper; Grasshopper). Pawn-hopper is implemented in WinChloe only.
  • (24.04) No.1056 – Claude Beaubestre (ser-r<>r15; Circe Couscous). Warm welcome to Claude in Original problems section of JF!
  • (23.04) No.1053, 1054, 1055 – Peter Harris. Three miniatures showing “double transformation”: what happens to the moving piece and what happens to the captured piece: No.1053 (h#4.5; Circe Chameleon; Einstein Chess); No.1054 (h=3; Circe Chameleon; Chameleon Chess); No.1055 (hs#3; Circe Chameleon; Chameleon Chess).
  • (21.04) No.1052 – Peter Harris (hs=3; Neutral piece; Sentinels Pion Advers; Chameleon Chess). To Geoff Foster.
  • (20.04) No.1051 – Alberto Armeni (r#2; Anti-Circe).
  • (20.04) No.1050 – Vito Rallo (h#3; Anti-Circe).
  • (19.04) No.1049 – Geoff Foster (h#4; Neutral piece; Chameleon Circe). Inspired by the discussion about “Circe Einstein”.
  • (17.04) No.1048 – Mario Parrinello (hs#3; Neutral piece; Anti-Circe Symmetry; Anti-Kings). Enjoy 3 identical solutions!
  • (12.04) No.1047 – Ya’akov Mintz (hs#5).
  • (11.04) No.1046 – Aleksey Oganesjan (hs#5).
  • (10.04) No.1045 – Peter Harris (h#2.5; Circe; Super Anti-Circe; White Maximummer; Sentinels Pion Advers; Chameleon Chess; Einstein Chess). This problem is dedicated to the one who won’t get lost in combination of 5(!) fairy conditions in each of two twins.
  • (09.04)  Fairings No.48 by Chris Feather, distributed by Stephen Emmerson, is added to the Articles section!
  • (08.04) No.1042, 1043, 1044 – Karol Mlynka. Three problems with Pressburger King (Super-Transmuting King): No.1042 (h#2; White Super-Transmuting King); No.1043 (+3; White Super-Transmuting King; Locust; Bishop-Locust; Nightrider-Locust); No.1044 (hs=2; Black Super-Transmuting King; Neutral Chameleon).
  • (05.04) No.1039, 1040, 1041 – Oliver Sick. Three problems with author’s comments:
    “...forces the white king… to be “stalemated” (which sounds to be nonsense in a helpmate…)…” in No.1039 (h#7; Alphabetic Chess);
    “An easy help-selfmate with a kind of try play…” in No.1040 (hs#5; Circe);
    “A very small piece (neutral royal rook…) with three (surprising?) white…” in No.1041 (ser-=4; Neutral Royal Rook; Sentinels).
  • (04.04) No.1038 – Ya’akov Mintz (hs#5). Warm welcome to Ya’akov in Original problems section of JF!
  • (04.04) No.1037 – Sébastien Luce (h#2; Changeants(WinChloe only)). “But where are the two Kings ??☺“
  • (03.04) No.1036 – Anatoly Stepochkin (h#2.5; KoKo).
  • (03.04) No.1033.1 – Kenneth Solja (#2; Amazon; Cardinal; Camel; Skylla; Rook-hopper; Grasshopper). Corrected version of No.1033.
  • (02.04) No.1034, 1035 – Erich Bartel. Impressive initial and final positions in No.1034 (h==5; PWC; Madrasi RI; Alphabetic Chess); mates in four corners in No.1035 (ser-h#12; Circe Equipollents; Fers; Wazir).
  • (02.04) No.1033 – Kenneth Solja (#2; Amazon; Cardinal; Camel; Skylla; Rook-hopper; Grasshopper). Author writes that it is one of the first direct mates with fairy pieces he has composed.

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All previously published problems you can find in the subsections of Original Problems menu on the top. The judge of informal fairy tournament JF-2016(I) – Petko A. Petkov. The judge of Retro and PG problems 2015-2016 – Thomas Brand.

Announcement of Tourneys of “The Macedonian Problemist” 2016

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macedonian-problemistThe Macedonian Problemist announces tourneys for 2016:

a) Informal tourneys: #2 – Dragan Stojnić; #3 – C.G.S. Narayanan; #n – Abdelaziz Onkoud; s#2-n – Sven Trommler; h#2 – Vitaly Medintsev; h#2.5-3 – Petko Petkov; h#3.5-n – Christopher Jones; fairies – Pierre Tritten; retros – Hans Gruber.
b) “The Macedonian Problemist” League 2016 (free themes, closing date 1.9.2016) in four sections: #2 – Miodrag Mladenović; #3 – Aleksandr Sygurov; s#3-7 – Živko Janevski; h#4-8 – Zlatko Mihajloski (a reserve judge for any section – Hans Gruber).
c)  thematic tourneys for helpmates showing themes labelled with the names of two prominent Macedonian chess problem composers, who will be judges in these tourneys, respectively (closing date 20.10.2016)… → read full announcement (PDF)

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ZdravkoMaslarZdravko Maslar

The traditional Andernach Fairy Chess Meeting will take place from May 05 to May 08, 2016 (as usual the long weekend starting with Ascension Day).

As last year we will meet at Ratskeller (Hochstraße 33, D-56626 Andernach); this is Zdravko Maslar‘s former restaurant Balkan Pic, where he had organised the meeting for decades.

As usual you should arrange your accomodation for yourself, but if necessary you may ask bernd ellinghoven (mail: be.fee(at)t-online.de) or Zdravko Maslar (Karolingerstr. 76, D-56626 Andernach, tel +49 2632 1577) for support.

For political reasons Zdravko came to Germany from former Yugoslavia in the early 1970th and established a restaurant in Andernach, some 80 kilometers south of Cologne at the Rhine river.
At the Wiesbaden WCCC in 1974 he met Peter Kniest, the publisher and general editor of feenschach. In their discussion the idea arose to have a fairy chess meeting, and Zdravko agreed to host it in his restaurant. The very first meeting was in spring 1975 at the Ascension Day weekend — so started the tradition of the Andernach meetings. Since 1975 Zdravko steadily organizes this meeting (now together with bernd ellinghoven) and hosted it in his restaurant until his retirement shortly before 2000.

Originals 16-310316

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16-31st of March, 2016

  • (31.03) No.1032 – Peter Harris (#4; Chameleon; Transmuted Kings; Isardam). Almost the same matrix as in No.1031, but completely different problem.
  • (31.03) No.1031 – Julia Vysotska (#2; Chameleon). Light Chameleon toy for solving, solution with one try.
  • (30.03) No.1030 – Michal Dragoun (hs#3; LEO; PAO; VAO). Chinese Meredith.
  • (28.03) No.1029 – Peter Harris (h#3.5; Super-Andernach; Isardam).
  • (26.03) No.1027, 1028 – Peter Harris. Author mentions that of the two problems – No.1027 (hs#2; Chameleon Chess; Anti-Andernach; Lortap) and No.1028 (h#3; White Maximummer; Anti-Andernach; Lortap) – the second one “is easier – and may tempt solvers to solve.“
  • (19.03) No.1026 – Hubert Gockel (#2; Eiffel Chess). 2 changed mates. (Author).
  • (19.03) No.1024, 1025 – Erich Bartel. Two-corner mates in the both problems: No.1024 (ser-h#21; PWC; Alphabetic Chess; Wazir), No.1025 (ser-h#18; Circe Equipollents; Nightrider).
  • (16.03) No.1023 – Peter Harris (h#2.5; White Maximummer Ultra; Sentinelles Pion Advers; Super-Circe; Locust). After months of his serious illness I’m so happy to greet Peter on 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 informal fairy tournament JF-2016(I) – Petko A. Petkov. The judge of Retro and PG problems 2015-2016 – Thomas Brand.

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mk-55jt-exA thematic composing tourney
announced for any kind of chess problems

Theme: 55 (two fives)

Every theme including at least 2×5 (or 5+5) arbitrary elements is allowed. E.g. five transferred mates / changed mates / variants / defense motifs / harmful effects in two phases, 5 solutions in a twin, 5 white + 5 black promotions, 5 white + 5 black pieces and the like. However, also multiplied showing of five elements is welcome.

Everything is allowed: any stipulation, any number of moves, fairy pieces and/or conditions, promoted pieces, any type and size of chess board as well as multiple solutions, twins, and even illegal position.

The tourney will be divided to at least two sections (orthodox and fairy).

Prizes: Chess Diagraf – programme for saving, solution, printing and animation of chess problems

Deadline: 04.04.2016 | Entries to email: mk55jt@checkchess.net | Judge: jubilee | PDF with examples | Animated examples

The award will appear at the latest 55 days after deadline.

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06-09th of March, 2016

  • (10.03) No.1022 – Vincenzo Tinebra (#2; Circe; Antelope; Giraffe; Grasshopper; Lion; Locust; Nightrider).
  • (09.03) No.1021 – Gani Ganapathi (h=2.5; Annan Chess).
  • (09.03) No.1020 – Andreas Thoma (-2 & #1 Proca; Anti-Circe Cheylan; Black takes back its geometrical shortest move).
  • (06.03) No.1018, 1019 – Erich Bartel. No.1018 (ser-s=15; Circe Equipollents; Alphabetic Chess; Lion; Grasshopper); No.1019 (ser-s#20; Circe Equipollents; Alphabetic Chess; Lion; Equihopper).

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 informal fairy tournament JF-2016(I) – Petko A. Petkov. The judge of Retro and PG problems 2015-2016 – Thomas Brand.

Originals 18-270216

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18-29th of February, 2016

  • (29.02) No.1016, 1017 – Thomas Pantalacci. No.1016 (h#2; Lortap); No.1017 (h#2; Provocation Chess).
  • (27.02) No.1015 – N.Shankar Ram (zg75; No Сapture). An unusual stipulation: W moves to g7 in 5 moves, with Black defending.
  • (27.02) No.1014 – Ján Kovalič & Ladislav Packa (h#2; Take & Make; Bishop-lion; Rook-lion).
  • (25.02) No.1013 – Alex Levit (-19 & #1 Proca Retractor; Anti-Circe). Nice to see Alex back to composition after 3 years break!
  • (21.02) No.1011, 1012 – Sébastien Luce. Degradation (Relegation Chess) in two serial problems: No.1011 (ser-=27; Degradation); No.1012 (ser-=30; Degradation; Blockade).
  • (21.02) No.1009, 1010 – Erich Bartel. Circe Equipollents in two serial problems: No.1009 (ser-s#14; Circe Equipollents; Marguerite); No.1010 (ser-=31; Circe Equipollents).
  • (20.02) No.1008 – N.Shankar Ram (=4; Paralysing piece). Combinatorial WS 4x3x2 tour cycle doubled in miniature. (Author)
  • (18.02) No.1007 – Nicolas Dupont (PG 9.5; Castling Chess). Author mentions that this is the very first example of PG problem with Castling Chess.

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 informal fairy tournament JF-2016(I) – Petko A. Petkov. The judge of Retro and PG problems 2015-2016 – Thomas Brand.