End of JF-2014/I & start of JF-2014/II

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Dear Friends,

Today, on the 30th of April, is the last day of the first informal tournaments of this year – JF-2014/I. I will check again all published problems and versions participating in the tournament, but for now I’d like to tell thanks a lot to all participants for a very good problems! I believe it’s a strong tournament, and I hope that our judge, Vlaicu Crișan, will enjoy his work!

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 second informal tournament – JF-2014/II, May-August, 2014!
Any fairy problem can participate, and I’m here for you to publish it as soon as I can, usually in 1-2 days.

dturevskiI’m happy to introduce you the judge of this period – Dmitri Turevski – a talented Russian composer successfully participating in many strong competitions, a developer of the popular Linux/Windows graphical user interface to Popeye – Olive, and also of a chess problem database – YACPDB! Warm welcome to Dmitri! 

Originals 25-290414

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25-29th of April, 2014:

  • (29.04) No.535 – Kenneth Solja – Interesting four-men with a “leapfrog of two Locusts”!
  • (28.04) No.534 – Eric Huber – A very nice Tanagra with combination of two fairy conditions! Enjoy detailed author’s comments!
  • (27.04) No.533 – Sébastien Luce – А difficult four-men with exotic fairy Bishops!
  • (26.04) No.532 – Ján Golha – A Four-men Aristocrat with Echo-play!
  • (25.04) No.531 – Pierre Tritten – Multiple interchange of functions in Take & Make problem!

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 15-210414

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15-21th of April, 2014:

  • (21.04) No.530 – Karol Mlynka  – Non-standard AUW with a use of royal neutral Pawn!
  • (18.04) No.529 – Rainer Kuhn  – Welcome to a new author with a nice Tanagra problem with two fairy conditions!
  • (16.04) No.528 – Nicolas Dupont  – A big surprise! The first PG problem with Disparate condition!
  • (15.04) No.527 – Daniel Novomesky – An elegant Tanagra-Aristocrat with excellent Isardam effects!
  • (15.04) Fairings No.37 by Chris Feather is added to the Articles section. The guests of this issue are: Geoff Foster and Klaus Wenda. 

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 100414 & 2 years of Julia’sFairies

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10th of April, 2014:

Today Julia’sFairies website celebrates its 2 years! And this morning I’m happy to publish and to show you this composition by IGM Petko Petkov:

  • (10.04) No.526 – An excellent Disparate composition, model mates, thematic try-play and instructive detailed comment by the author! The problem is dedicated to me, with author’s comment “in a honor of the two-years anniversary of Julia’sFairies website and successful creative work”. Thank you so much, dear Petko! 

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. 

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1st-2nd of April, 2014:

  • (02.04) No.525 – Andreas Thoma – An interesting Retro created with Pawns only! Congratulations to Andreas with the first publication in Original Problems section of JF!
  • (01.04) No.524 – Michael Grushko – A four-men typical for Israeli maestro!

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 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. 

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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. 

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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. 

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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.