Originals 01-141114

1-14th of November, 2014:

  • (14.11) No.642 – S. K. Balasubramanian – A nicely shown synthesis of the two fairy conditions!
  • (12.11) No.641 – Peter Harris – Interesting and complicated miniature. And some words to the programmers again … :)
  • (10.11) No.640 – Nicolas Dupont – Yet another curious problem for the discussion, including null-moveep-capture and Circe Parrain effects!
  • (09.11) No.639 – Peter Harris – Tanagra-Aristocrat with an interesting play of the Royal Queens! A rare case: Peter’s problem without fairy conditions! 🙂
  • (07.11) Py2Web – A new version of the program allows to show the departure square for the move, like instead of 2.g4 it can show 2.g2-g4. Dear authors, you’d help me a lot if you send me numbers of your problems (or links to them) and moves needed to be shown with their departure square in the animated solution! As I remember it was needed for Back-to-Back condition and somewhere also…
  • (02.11) No.638 – Oliver Sick – What happens if there’re more than one Imitator on the board?
  • (01.11) No.637 – Peter Harris – Interesting thematic mates to the both Royal Pieces – rR in (a) and rR+rB in (b)!

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) – Kjell Widlert. The judge for Retro and PG problems 2013 – 2014Hans Gruber. 


Originals 29-311014

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29-31st of October, 2014:

  • (31.10) No.636 – Geoff Foster – Valladao theme with Anti-Take&Make condition! (Inspired by No.627)
  • (31.10) No.635 – Paul Rãican – Rich play with only two neutral pieces on the board! (Inspired by No.620)
  • (30.10) No.634 – Lev Grolman – Four fold cyclic white batteries’ creation!
  • (29.10) No.633 – Cornel Pacurar – A nice miniature with interesting retro-play in two phases!
  • (29.10) No.632 – Manfred Rittirsch – Specific line opening of the black Q after thematic R-moves; Grid Chess effect!

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) – Kjell Widlert. The judge for Retro and PG problems 2013 – 2014Hans Gruber. 


Originals 23-261014

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23-26th of October, 2014:

  • (25.10) No.631 – Kenneth Solja – Interesting play of the three neutral Pawns in a Tanagra position!
  • (25.10) No.630 – Oliver Sick – Nice realization of AUW theme with seldom combination of fairy conditions!
  • (23.10) No.629 – Karol Mlynka – Nice fairy promotions of the black Pawns!
  • (23.10) No.628 – Paul Rãican – Reflexmate with exotical thematic material: Eagle + Locust!

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) – Kjell Widlert. The judge for Retro and PG problems 2013 – 2014Hans Gruber. 


Originals 10-181014

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10-18th of October, 2014:

  • (18.10) No.627 – Sébastien Luce – Valladao theme in Symmetry Circe!
  • (18.10) No.626 – Pierre Tritten – Continuation of the theme ”one neutral Royal piece on the board”. It is also a Happy Birthday problem for Sébastien Luce! Congratulations!
  • (17.10) No.625 – Peter Harris – White has only two Roses, but how much dynamic they are! My gratitude to Peter for the dedication to my girls, Daniela Dominika!
  • (14.10) No.624 – Peter Harris – Two solutions with promotions into all figures and quite different mating pictures. A problem inspired by S.K. Balasubramanian‘s comments to No.621 with a special dedication!
  • (13.10) No.623 – Gani Ganapathi – Nice thematic sacrifices of the black S!
  • (12.10) No.622 – Ladislav Packa – Short, but interesting idea showing Disparate condition in PG problem!
  • (12.10) No.621 – Sébastien Luce – A problem inspired by No.620 – Just one royal piece on the board and serial mate in two phases!
  • (11.10) No.620 – Peter Harris – The only neutral Royal piece is on the board! How it can be mated?
  • (11.10) No.619 – Klaus Wenda – Proca retractor with a rich content! 
  • (10.10) No.618 – Krassimir Gandev – A very seldom fairy piece Bob in a help-selfmate!

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) – Kjell Widlert. The judge for Retro and PG problems 2013 – 2014Hans Gruber. 


Originals 04-081014, Fairings No.40

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4-8th of October, 2014:

  • (08.10) No.612.1 – Kenneth Solja & Ladislav Packa – A new version of No.612, created during a long discussion! One more half-move, one more solution and sacrifices of the white pieces!
  • (07.10) No.617 – S. K. Balasubramanian – Nice miniature showing an interesting combination of Back-to-back and Madrasi!
  • (07.10) Fairings No.40 by Chris Feather are added in the Articles section.
  • (06.10) No.615, 616 – Oliver Sick – Two miniatures representing Annan Chess with neutral pieces: ANI-solutions in the first one, and an active play of the black King in the second one! Warm welcome to Oliver!
  • (06.10) No.614 – Peter Harris – Surprising promotions in serial problem with two fairy conditions!
  • (05.10) No.613 – Peter Harris – A problem with Equistopper by its inventor starts from two pieces and ends as a Meredith final!
  • (04.10) No.612 – Kenneth Solja – Three black promotions! Author writes that this problem was inspired by No.578.

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) – Kjell Widlert. The judge for Retro and PG problems 2013 – 2014Hans Gruber. 


Originals 23-280914

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23-28th of September, 2014:

  • (28.09) No.611 – S. K. Balasubramanian & Pierre Tritten – A pawn is accompanied by one of the black S/B on its trip till mate!
  • (28.09) No.610 – Sébastien Luce –  “All roads go to Rome!”(S.B.).  See where two roads of author’s solutions go and also some words to the discussion about puzzles and problems.
  • (27.09) No.609Peter Harris – Four(!) fairy-conditions create a surprising final. The problem has author’s Introduction!
  • (26.09) No.608 – Chris Feather – A great maneuvers of Roses with very active usage of PWC condition! 
  • (25.09) No.607 – Peter Harris – “Difficulty overshadows Surprise”(P.H.). Enjoy solving and author’s comment!
  • (23.09) No.606 – Julia Vysotska – Chameleons with Back-to-Back 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(III) – Kjell Widlert. The judge for Retro and PG problems 2013 – 2014Hans Gruber. 


Originals 19-230914 (PH)

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19-23rd of September, 2014:

Series of problems by Peter Harris:

  • (23.09) No.605 – Surprising mates with thematic effects!
  • (22.09) No.604 – Three-men problem in a typical Peter’s style!
  • (21.09) No.603 – A dynamics of  Isardam and Anti-Circe effects!
  • (19.09) No.602 – In the beginning there’re just two Kings on the board! 

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) – Kjell Widlert. The judge for Retro and PG problems 2013 – 2014Hans Gruber. 


Happy birthday to Julia!

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16th of September, 2014

ppetkov“Dear Julia, congratulations on your birthday – September 16th, 2014! I wish you health, happiness and many more successes in life and in our beloved art!

(Petko A. Petkov)

No.601 – Petko A. Petkov – Cyclic play with rich thematic motives! With my gratitude for the dedication and congratulations!


Originals 12-150914

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12-15th of September, 2014:

  • (15.09) No.600 – Karol Mlynka – A three-men Aristocrat with a nice play!
  • (15.09) No.599 – Sébastien Luce – A long back-forward journey of Locust!
  • (13.09) No.598 – Kenneth Solja – Interesting start position with Rex Solus!
  • (12.09) No.597 – Franz Pachl Dieter Müller – Rich thematic play of the excellent Andernach-Lions’ trio!
  • (12.09) No.596 – Daniel Novomesky – Model mates (a) and Ideal mates (b) with rich additional motives!
  • (12.09) No.595 – Gani Ganapathi – Surprising transformations of the black royal S in SneK 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 for informal fairy tourney 2014(III) – Kjell Widlert. The judge for Retro and PG problems 2013 – 2014Hans Gruber. 


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!