Participants of JF-2014/II & the judge of JF-2014/III

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Dear Friends,

The second informal tournament of this year – JF-2014/II – has finished on the 31st of August, 2014. Thanks a lot to all participants and to the judge, Dmitri Turevski, for his future work! I will check again all published problems and versions participating in the tournament, but I’d like to ask all participants to look at the problems’ list as well. By default, only the last published version of the problem participates in the competition. Please let me know if you’d like some specific version to participate!  

As I’ve written in the post of January,1st, this year I’ve decided keep the same system as in 2013, and to split the informal tourneys for fairy problems published on Julia’s Fairies website into 3 periods and independent tourneys: 
I – January-April, II – May-August, III – September-December. 


You’re welcome to participate in the 3rd informal tournament of this year – JF-2014/III, September-December!
Any fairy problem can participate, and I’m here for you to publish it as soon as I can, usually in 1-2 days.

KjellWidlertI’m happy to introduce you the judge of this period – Kjell Widlert – An International Judge, IM in composing and solving, the fairy and solution editor of the Swedish magazine “Springaren”, a world famous fairy expert and composer of original style, who has also composed a large number of problems in collaboration with other composers during chess composition meetings, and, of course, one of the best commentators on JF! Also, Kjell has been the Swedish delegate to the PCCC/WFCC “for the last 100 years or so :-)”(K.W.), and was a Vice President for 20 years. Warm welcome to Kjell! 


My Participation in WCCC2014 Tournaments

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It’s my 4th participation in WCCC’s tournaments, and the most active for now. I like thematic competitions, fast judging, limited time.. and the whole dynamics and special emotions around the Congress.

Happy to have 5 problems in the Awards and some more ideas for the future composing!
With a gratitude to all organizers of these competitions! – Julia. → Read more…


Originals 040914

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04th of September, 2014:

  • (04.09) No.594 – Ladislav Salai jr. & Michal Dragoun – An interesting task-problem with 8 different mates by the w.EQ!
  • (04.09) No.593 – Kostas Prentos & Emmanuel Manolas – Surprising mates by Bg6 and Re2 with use of Andernach Lions!

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 for informal fairy tourney 2014(III) will be appointed soon! The judge for Retro and PG problems 2013 – 2014Hans Gruber. 


Hanspeter Suwe 65 Jubilee Tourney

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There is a new closing date for the Hanspeter Suwe 65 Jubilee Tourney (joint 215th Theme Tourney of Die Schwalbe and 73rd Theme Tourney of feenschach): Please send your contribution until December 31, 2014 to Thomas Brand (t.brand@gmx.net). Theme definition can be found at:
http://www.feenschach.de/downloads/suwe65-jt.pdf or  http://www.dieschwalbe.de/kompositionsturniere.htm.


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01-03rd of September, 2014:

This is a beginning of the next informal fairy tournament on JF! I’m sorry, the judge is not appointed yet, but will be soon! It is symbolically, that a new tournament, JF-2014-III, begins with an original problem of our judge of just finished period – Dmitri Turevski.

  • (03.09) No.592 – Igor Kochulov – Bristol by two white Rooks! A nice play of Chameleons with Anti-Circe. I’m grateful for the dedication!
  • (01.09) No.591 – Dmitri Turevski – An interesting thematic with combination of two quite different types of exotic pieces!

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 for informal fairy tourney 2014(III) will be appointed soon! The judge for Retro and PG problems 2013 – 2014Hans Gruber. 


4th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2015 (C 15.1.2015)

FIDE-logoThe International Chess Federation (FIDE), within the framework of its “Chess Composition” special project, is organizing the 4th FIDE World Cup in Composing for 2015 in eight sections.

The tournament is coordinated with the WFCC Presidium and is a part of the joint efforts by FIDE and WFCC for the popularization and development of chess composition worldwide.


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30th of August, 2014:

  • (30.08) No.590 – Julia Vysotska – This problem was going to be my 3rd problem for 12th Romanian Tzuica Tourney but I couldn’t finish it in time. So, I present you my mates with a triple check here!
  • (30.08) No.589 – Nicolas Dupont – The first figurative PG problem published on JF! A tower of pawns created with Annan Chess condition.

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 for informal fairy tourney 2014(II)Dmitri Turevski. The judge for Retro and PG problems 2013 – 2014Hans Gruber. 


57th WCCC: Bon voyage & good luck!

wccc-bern2014The 57th World Congress of Chess Composition starts today! I wish a nice trip and an excellent time in Bern to all participants! And good luck to everybody in composing tournaments!

These days I also need to finish some of my problems for fairy tournaments, so I’d like to ask you to allow me some delay in publication of any materials on JF. The same time I’m inviting you to write here about any news from the Congress, and to post (or to send me for publication) any photos as well! – Julia.