Originals 2506-070714

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25th of June – 7th of July, 2014:

  • (06.07) No.567 – Nikolaj Zujev – A play of white and black Grasshoppers in HS#!
  • (06.07) No.566 – Petko A. Petkov – Light Disparate Miniature!
  • (02.07) No.565 – Julia Vysotska – Neutral Nightriders in my first combination of Circe and Take & Make!
  • (29.06) In animated diagrams I’ve changed pieces to those used in Echecs font. My gratitude to Christian Poisson who kindly provided images of all Echecs pieces and also to Dmitri Turevski for explanations about the necessary changes!
  • (28.06) No.564 – Ladislav Packa – A nice Anti-Circe PG! Warm welcome to Ladislav! (29.06 – animated solution is added to this PG problem!) 
  • (25.06) No.563 – Albinas Bicusas – A nice Aristocrat-miniature! Warm welcome to Albinas!
    This is the first published fairy original with animated solution, which uses Py2Web tool by Dmitri Turevski. Thanks a lot to Dmitri for the tool and help with installation!

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. 


Py2Web by Dmitri Turevski

Py2Web

A great tool for webmasters and sites’ visitors by Dmitri Turevski

Py2Web is an utility for people who create webpages. It allows embedding chess problems viewer into the webpages in a way similar to that in which the PGN viewers work. The difference is that Py2Web supports many features that PGN viewers don’t, e.g.: idling (set-play, threat, series-movers), twins, fairy pieces, fairy effects (rebirth, piece color change etc).” (DT)


Originals 21-240614

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21st-24th of June, 2014:

  • (24.06) No.562 – Klaus Wenda – Interesting Fairy Excelsiors from the both sides! 
  • (24.06) No.553.1 – Vito Rallo & Seetharaman K. – A joint problem by two authors as rather improved version of No.553 with two Excelsiors!
  • (23.06) No.561 – Georgy Evseev – A rich and original battery and anti-battery play!
  • (23.06) No.560 – Nikola Predrag – Original motivation of black castlings!
  • (22.06) No.550.1 – Henryk Grudziński – Improvement to No.550 after a cook was found by Paul Răican.
  • (21.06) No.559 – Karol Mlynka – An exotic content with three rather different fairy pieces!

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. 


The Problemist: judge of Fairy section

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Dear Friends,

I did not want to but Peter Harris has written to me as follows:

“I was so pleased to learn about your appointment as Fairies Judge for 2014 for The Problemist. You simply must put the news on JF – and not be bashful. Readers would like to know.”

Well I am following this advice! I would of course also like you to send problems to The Problemist Fairy editor Stephen.emmerson@ntlworld.com. Thank you! – Julia


Originals 15-160614

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15-16th of June, 2014:

  • (16.06) No.557, 558 Chris Feather – Two problems are nicely presented by the author: “They are both rather heavy (3 units :) ) and both use Couscous Circe and a single neutral pawn, with an imitator (NB: not a piece, but a condition!)
  • (15.06) No.556 – Julia Vysotska – My lovely Chameleons again, but this time in Anti-Circe problem! The main thing is thematic mating finals created with a pairs of neutral Chameleons.

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. 


Uri Avner (13-01-1941 – 10-06-2014)

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Uri Avner (13-01-1941 – 10-06-2014)

GM Uri Avner passed away on the 10th of June, 2014, at the age of 73, after a long battle with a severe disease. His funeral will take place on June, 12th.

Uri was born on January 13, 1941 and was a clinical psychologist in profession. He started composing at an early age (in the last issue of Variantim,  is quoted a problem he composed when he was 13!!) and for many years was at the center of Israeli Chess Problem composition. He organized in Israel three congresses and edited initially HAPROBLEMAI and its successor, Variantim, until just 3 years ago. He edited and published several books and booklets.  For many years he led the Israeli chess composition society, represented Israel in the WCCC and was certainly the best Israeli composer ever. Uri was always involved in various sub-committees and was the President of the PCCC from 2006 to 2010 during its transition to WFCC.  Uri’s contribution to international chess composition was immense: he was involved in WCCT, FIDE Albums, solving events and almost in every aspect of our art. (by Paz Einat, 11-12.06.2014)candle

JF website expresses deep condolences to Uri’s family, relatives, friends.

 

Originals 03-100614

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3rd; 7-10th of June, 2014:

  • (10.06) No.555 – Gani Ganapathi – A nice Berolina-Excelsiors!
  • (08.06) No.554 – Petko A. Petkov – With this problem author proposes a new theme – Chameleon Trio (shown for the first time?) – where three different Chameleons in a different phases step on the same square!
  • (08.06) Fairings No.38 by Chris Feather is added to the Articles section. As always, thanks to Stephen Emmerson for the distribution!
  • (07.06) No.553 – Vito Rallo – A nice masked white Excelsior in HS#!
  • (03.06) No.552 – Peter Harris – A very dynamic and complicated solutions with three fairy conditions!
  • (03.06) No.551 – Igor Kochulov – A nice Duplex play in Meredith form! Circe and neutral pieces in HS#.

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. 


Italy – Israel Friendly Match in Chess Problem Composition

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Italy – Israel Friendly Match
in Chess Problem Composition
Announcement
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We are delighted to announce the friendly match between our countries. The match will be in three sections:
A) Mate in 2 moves; B) Helpmate in 2.5 or 3 moves; C) Fairy problems

Details on the themes for each section and judges names are included in the annex of the Announcement.

Tourney organizers and country captains:
Antonio Garopalo – Italy
Evgeny Bourd & Shaul Shamir – Israel
The tourney director will be Julia Vysotska – Latvia

Wishing success to everyone
Antonio Garofalo
Evgeny Bourd
Shaul Shamir


ĽUDO LEHEN MT C 31.12.2014

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Slovak Organisation for Chess Composition announces an international tourney for fairy twomovers (with any fairy units or/and fairy conditions). Entries are to be sent to brabec@brabec.sk or by post to Juraj Brabec, Svetlá 1, 811 02 Bratislava, Slovakia. Closing date: 31 December 2014. The judge is Vasyl Dyachuk.

Slovenská organizácia kompozičného šachu vypisuje medzinárodný turnaj v skladaní exodvojťažiek, venovaný pamiatke zosnulého slovenského skladateľa Ľuda Lehena. Prípustné sú ľubovoľné druhy exokamenov, ako aj rôzne druhy exošachov. Zasielacia lehota 31.12. 2014. Skladby posielajte v elektronickej podobe na adresu: brabec@brabec.sk alebo obyčajnou poštou na adresu Juraj Brabec, Svetlá 1, 811 02 Bratislava. Rozhodcom súťaže je Vasyľ Ďačuk.


Popeye 4.67 released!

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On the 25th of May, 2014, Thomas Maeder has announced the new release of Popeye – 4.67!

See README for all new features added and bugs fixed and the citation of Thomas Maeder from MatPlus, 25-May-2014.

Thanks a lot to Thomas and to all Popeye team!!