Originals 25-300314

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25-30th of March, 2014:

  • (30.03) No.523 – Petko A. Petkov –  Transformation of initial double battery in a complicated Disparate problem! Petko dedicates this problem to the memory of his father, Andon Petkov (1914-2014).
  • (29.03) No.522 – Karol Mlynka – Mixed AUW with only 3 pieces! The problem is dedicated to the 60th birthday of Slovak composer Ivan Jarolín on the 31st of March. Best wishes from JF website as well!
  • (27.03) No.521 – Chris Feather – An exotic four-men with neutral AUW and three fairy conditions! Enjoy author’s detailed comments to Mars Circe condition and to the both solutions of the problem! This problem I’ve got by postal mail.. and have thought again that there’s something special in the paper envelopes!
  • (26.03) No.509.1 – Henryk Grudzinski – An improvement to No.509 after comment by Paul Rãican!
  • (25.03) No.520 – Cornel Pacurar – A perfect three-phase play with a surprising construction of only 5 pieces!
  • (25.03) No.519 – János Mikitovics – A nice hs# Miniature, Aristocrat with a difficult play!

All previously published problems you can find in the subsections of  Original Problems menu on the top. The judge for informal fairy tourney 2014(I) – Vlaicu Crișan. The judge for Retro and PG problems 2013 – 2014 – Hans Gruber. 

The AWARD of “Vladimir Zabunov – 85 MT”

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The AWARD of “Vladimir Zabunov – 85 MT” is published on KoBulChess.com!

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“Here is the Award of the Vladimir Zabunov – 85 MT 2014! The tourney was announced in 2013 which was the 85 anniversary year of Zabunov’s birthday. I thank all participants and congratulate the awarded composers! Many thanks to the judge IGM Petko Petkov for his Award which is open for claims for next 30 days.”
(Diyan Kostadinov)

Thanks a lot to the judge, Petko A. Petkov, and director of tournament, Diyan Kostadinov!

WinChloe update – 03/2014

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WinChloe – a new release and update of Echecs database
as of 12-Mar-2014!
  • A new version of WinChloe solving program (by Christian Poisson)  is released on 12th of March, 2014! See Readme of WinChloe 3.25 for features added or corrected.
  • The latest update (as of 12-Mar-2014) of WinChloe Echecs database is available for those, who uses it. The number of problems has increased till 516022!  
  • 316 of original problems published at Julia’sFairies are added to WinChloe Echecs database as of 12-Mar-2014. Thanks a lot to all who does this huge work of updating and to the author, Christian Poisson!!

Originals 11-200314

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11-20th of March, 2014:

  • (20.03) No.518 – Francesco Simoni – Meredith-Aristocrat with recently implemented Face To Face fairy condition!
  • (18.03) No.517 – János Mikitovics – An interesting Miniature with difficult solution!
  • (12.03) No.516 – Igor Kochulov – Duplex in Take&Make problem composed with neutral pieces only!
  • (12.03) No.515 – Franz Pachl & Michael Barth – A difficult h#2 with exotic Take&Make content!
  • (12.03) No.514 – Mario Parrinello – An excellent hs#3, Take&Make with 5 thematic half-moves in each solutions! 
  • (11.03) No.512, 513 – Kjell Widlert – a noted Swedish composer, editor of “Springaren” magazine and also the last time one of the best commentators on JF! Two problems by Kjell have an uncommon fairy conditions and minimal white material.
  • (11.03) No.511 – Eric Huber – A nice dedication and complicated to solve three-man in typical Eric’s style! Not long ago I welcomed Eric as a judge of JF-2013/III, but this time I’m happy to welcome his first publication in Original Problems section of JF!

All previously published problems you can find in the subsections of  Original Problems menu on the top. The judge for informal fairy tourney 2014(I) – Vlaicu Crișan. The judge for Retro and PG problems 2013 – 2014 – Hans Gruber. 

Originals 02-080314

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2nd-8th of March, 2014:

  • (08.03) No.510 – Thomas Pantalacci – Nice to see KoBul Kings condition and thematic mates!
  • (07.03) No.509 – Henryk Grudzinski – A problem by a noted Polish master of Retro and PG genre. An interesting position in PG13 created with Pawns only! Warm welcome to Henryk!
  • (05.03) No.508 – Paul Rãican – A very interesting Retro-Miniature and the 2nd Proca Retractor published on JF! The problem shows that there’s one more successful composer of Proca Retractor to the list given in the comments of No.495!
  • (03.03) No.507 – S. K. Balasubramanian – A nice Meredith with 3 pairs of thematic pieces! 
  • (02.03) No.500.1 – Julia Vysotska & Petko A. Petkov – A three-solution version of No.500, full cycle!! I believe that the both – my idea and your comments – encouraged Mr.Petkov to achieve this beautiful position! 

All previously published problems you can find in the subsections of  Original Problems menu on the top. The judge for informal fairy tourney 2014(I) – Vlaicu Crișan. The judge for Retro and PG problems 2013 – 2014 – Hans Gruber. 

My published problems as of Feb-2014

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Some of my recently published problems are finally added to My Problems section: 

Two problems composed yet in November of 2012:

No.75 – finished 26-Nov-2012 – Chinese pieces in HS# problem, Dentist, neutral promotions (Шахматная композиция – 2013)
No.76 – finished 02-Dec-2012 – Reciprocal play of neutral MAO and MOA – one gives mate, another one pins a mating piece! (The Problemist Supplement – 2013)

Marine problem from June’2013:

No.86 – Running JF Marine TT 2013 I wanted to compose something with Marine pieces as well! The main idea was a play of black Marine pieces MS/SI, and it took me about a month (The 3rd FIDE World Cup in Composing 2013, G-Fairies; 1st HM)

Three problems from autumn’2013, all inspired by Zabunov TT 2013 (the same as my No.400), with different transformations of initial batteries:

No.98 – October,2013 – Black half-battery transforms into two new Locust-specific batteries (KoBulChess – 2013, No.259)
No.99 – October,2013 – My lovely Chameleons in transformation of a black half-battery. I believe this is one of the best Chameleon-problems I have (Шахматная композиция – 2013)
No.102 – 03-Nov-2013 – Transformation of neutral half-battery, using Take&Make condition (StrateGems – 2014)

And November’s toy, miniature with Chameleons:

No.103 – 08-Nov-2013 – Light miniature, funny play of two neutral Chameleons, who jump away from their lines to return back in a new guise! (VARIANTIM – 2013)

Hope, you’ll like some of them! Thanks! – Julia

Originals 14-280214

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14th-28th of February, 2014:

  • (28.02) No.506 – Gani Ganapathi & K.Seetharaman – A nice problem with model mates and neutral Locust congratulates Petko Petkov with his birthday on the 27th of February! But I use one more chance to wish everything the very best to Petko from myself and JF website!

(24.02) – Three originals and two new authors to welcome!

  • No.505 – Janne Syväniemi – A nice co-play between the black King and Grasshoppers! Warm welcome to Finnish composer!
  • No.504 – Norbert Geissler – A four-men with excellent neutral AUW! Warm welcome to Norbert – master of miniature genre with a tens of beautiful problems created, and also one of the brightest developers in Popeye-team!
  • No.503 – Pierre Tritten – Very interesting interchange of functions shown by the both sides inTake&Make problem!
  • (23.02) Fairings No.36 by Chris Feather “You will have noticed a large amount of text this time; most of the diagrams appear on the second page. That is because, as an experiment, I am taking up suggestions to give introductions to the problems.” Thanks to Stephen Emmerson for the distribution!
  • (21.02) No.502 – Neal Turner – This is the 2nd author’s problem with unusual combination of SAT and Royal Grasshoppers in s#2 published on JF. Enjoy a detailed comment by Neal !
  • (18.02) No.501 – Stephen Emmerson – A very nice miniature with Princess and also a direct mate awaited by many of our commentators! I’m very happy to welcome Stephen, who is for many years an editor of Fairy section of the most prominent magazine in the world, “The Problemist”; one of the brightest and productive programmers of our great Popeye; interesting and non-standard composer!
  • (17.02) No.496.1 – Abdelaziz Onkoud & Nikola Predrag – This joint problem is a nice improvement to No.496! 
  • (14.02) No.500 – Julia Vysotska – A miniature with three dynamic fairy conditions! For now, technically it is the most complicated problem I have. And this is the 500th original publication I do!
  • (14.02) No.499 – Abdelaziz Onkoud – A three-mover of logical style with exotic pieces. Such kind of problems is quite rare on JF!

All previously published problems you can find in the subsections of  Original Problems menu on the top. The judge for informal fairy tourney 2014(I) – Vlaicu Crișan. The judge for Retro and PG problems 2013 – 2014 – Hans Gruber. 

Popeye 4.65 released!

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popeye-4_66-annPopeye 4.65 released!

Thomas Maeder has announced the new release of Popeye – see citation from MatPlus, 9-Feb-2014:

The Popeye team is happy to announce Popeye 4.65, available on http://sourceforge.net/projects/popeye-chess/files/Popeye/4.65/. Many bugs have been fixed, and some new fairy conditions are supported. For details, see the Release notes displayed at the bottom of the download page. ? read more…

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