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. 


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. 


Originals 280514

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28th of May, 2014:

  • (28.05) No.550 – Henryk Grudziński – One more idea to enjoy and analyze for our PG experts!
  • (28.05) No.549 – Sébastien Luce – AUW in a problem with uncommon fairy condition Anti-Circe Couscous.
  • (28.05) No.548 – Georgy Evseev – A team of white PAOs in a play with tempo-moves!

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. 


Originals 19-210514

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19th-21st of May, 2014:

  • (21.05) No.547 – Rainer Kuhn – A very specific twin of this problem shows the different implementation of combination Mirror-Circe + Take&Make in two solving programs – Popeye and WinChloe!
  • (21.05) No.546.1 – Franz Pachl – An improvement to No.546 created after comments.
  • (20.05) No.546 – Franz Pachl – Chinese Roses in a complicated cyclic play with three phases!
  • (19.05) No.509.5 – Henryk Grudzi?ski & Paul Rãican – One more improvement to the initial idea shown in No.509 (Henryk Grudzi?ski) almost 2,5 month ago! Authors mention it is partly checked.

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. 


New view of Original Problems lists

jv-may2014Dear Friends,

As you know, not long ago I’ve created a database of all problems at JF, available at Original Problems section → Authors at Julia’sFairies. Now I’ve changed the view of Original Problems lists for 2013-2014, so all problems presented are taken from the same Authors database and you have an options to see either all published problems during current period, or just those participating in the informal tournaments JF-YEAR-I/II/III, or just Retro & PG problems. Link to the whole list of Retro & PG problems 2013-2014 is also added at the top of all lists of Original Problems for 2013-2014.

As an example you can see the last list, Original Problems → Julia’s Fairies-2014(II):

A period of publications is May – August, 2014; the judge of JF-2014-II is Dmitri Turevski; and the judge for Retro and PG problems 2013 – 2014: Hans Gruber.

Retro and PG problems 2013 – 2014 is linked to the whole list of Retro & PG problems, but in the table below you can see only those published in the current period. An additional selection:

 Show all      Show only problems for JF-2014-II      Show only Retro & PG problems     

allows you to see either all published problems, or just tournament JF-2014-II, or just Retro & PG of this period. For the better visualization I’ve made a different background for Retro & PG problems.

JF-LOGO-1The whole idea is to help authors to find their problems on JF, to help judges to get a lists of problems for their tournaments, and to help me to find everything! 🙂

Please report any mistakes you find! And of course, post your comments about possible improvements!
Thank you! – Julia


Originals 14-150514

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14-15th of May, 2014:

  • (15.05) No.545 – Sébastien Luce – Author writes about his “flower-problem”: “During the solutions all the pieces seem like petals going in the wind…!
  • (14.05) No.544 – Karol Mlynka – Two-men problem with AUW!

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. 


Originals 09-130514

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9-13th of May, 2014:

  • (13.05) No.543.1 – Michal Dragoun, Ladislav Salai jr. & Emil Klemanič – Improved version of No.543, dedicated to Nikola Predrag for his notes!
  • (10.05) No.543 – Michal Dragoun, Ladislav Salai jr. & Emil Klemanič – A very interesting and difficult cyclic h#2 by three famous authors! Welcome to Emil and thanks to Michal and Ladislav for one more excellent publication!
  • (09.05) No.509.4 – Henryk Grudzinski & Paul Rãican – Correction of No.509.3 after a cook was found by Nicolas Dupont! This problem involves more and more people!

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. 


Originals 04-070514

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4-7th of May, 2014:

  • (07.05) No.542 – Chris Feather – Nice thematic S-mates, surprising B-promotion! (I’ve got this problem by postal mail today. If anybody is in touch with Chris – please send him my greetings!)
  • (06.05) No.509.3 – Henryk Grudzinski  & Paul Rãican – PG 9,5; Take&Make – Another version of the complicated idea shown in No.509. Nice to see the joint work!
  • (06.05) No.541 – Michal Dragoun – Very interesting and complicated Anti-Circe play! (h#2; Lions)
  • (05.05) No.540 – Julia Vysotska – A play of two Rabbits for solvers! Although, in one phase, but  I hope that maneuvers of my Rabbits are enough complicated and pleasant at the same time.  
  • (04.05) No.509.2 – Henryk Grudzinski – PG 9,5; Take&Make – one more improvement to No.509 published on March, 7th

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. 


Originals 010514

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1st of May, 2014:

The first day of informal tournament JF-2014/II! Warm welcome to the authors and the judge! Good luck to everybody in this period!

Two problems of today with a very rich content:

  • (01.05) No.539 – Vlaicu Crișan – Proca Retractor which by author’s words might be one of the most difficult Proca Retractors Circe Assassin he has composed!
  • (01.05) No.538 – Petko A. Petkov – A non-standard Disparate #2 showing author’s favorite theme in the genre Disparate-promotions!

dominika-daniela-chessToday the weather in Riga was cold and rainy, and while I was busy with a site, preparing publications and trying to understand the problems, my daughters have got even more complicated position! (Dominika, 6 years (left), Daniela, 9,5 years (right))


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. 


Originals 300414

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30th of April, 2014:

The last day of informal tournament JF-2014/I! If more problems come until midnight, I’ll publish them tomorrow, but will include into this tournament. For now two very interesting Marine problems by Luis Miguel Martín close this period:

  • No.536 – Reciprocal self-blocks between black Sirens with cyclic motives!
  • No.537 – A nice reciprocal play of two Marine Knights!

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 – 2014Hans Gruber.