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Updates as of 08-11.Dec, 2012:

  • (11.12) By the author’s words, to compose this problem he was inspired by the recent  comments initiated by Ron Fenton – see No.185 by Dmitri Turevski!
  • (11.12) Original problem by Diyan Kostadinov demonstrates relatively new (not programmed yet) fairy condition Memory Circe – see No.184!
  • (11.12) Enjoy perfect battery play in a join problem by two authors – S.K.Balasubramanian & Vlaicu Crișan – No.183! I’m happy to welcome Vlaicu Crișan on the site!
  • (08.12) Welcome to the new author on the site – Linden Lyons, Australia! See Grasshoppers in fairy #2 – No.182

Thanks to the authors!


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Updates as of 04-05.Dec, 2012:

  • (05.12) Welcome to the new author on the site – Alain Biénabe, France! See the first original Pser problem published here – No.180
  • (04.12) And one more original problem has came on the same day – see synthesis of two fairy conditions in the nice joint problem by Gani Ganapathi & Juraj Lörinc –  No.179
  • (04.12) It’s nice to see an original from our most active commentator – Seetharaman Kalyan! See hs#3 problem with white promotions, but without fairy elements –  No.178

Thanks to the authors!


You can click on the Original Problems tab on the top to see the whole list of published problems. Problem numbers are links to the problems – click on any number to see the problem. Standard search using Ctrl+F also works for the list.

Your original problems are very welcome!!


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Updates as of 26-30.Nov, 2012:

  • (30.11) I’m very happy to welcome a new author on the site – one of the best known Italian composers – Francesco Simoni! See Gnu fairy piece in 4 phases – the first time on the site! – in the nice problem No.177!
  • (30.11) The articleThe Wonderful (new genre) Parry Seriesby Petko A. Petkov is available  from the Articles page. See also my post about it below.
  • (29.11) A new original by Peter Harris is added! See only two Kings on the board in No.176!
  • (26.11) I’m very pleased to show you a new original problem by Petko A. Petkov My lovely MOA is pinned and can’t capture the pinning piece because of… – see an interesting combination in No.175!

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Your original problems are very welcome!!


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Updates as of 22-24.Nov, 2012:

  • (24.11) After 3 months break – Peter Harris with original problem No.174! I’d like to mention that this is the 20th problem by Peter published here! Thank you, Peter!
  • (24.11) Welcome to a new author on the site – K.R.Chandrasekaran, India! See s#2 with Superguards condition – No.173. Thanks a lot to the author!
  • (22.11) I’ve just published my own original problem, hs#3 with a pair MAO & MOA, which I call my “dream of the week” – No.172! I simply love it myself, and I’m happy that after many tries finally I’ve found the scheme where my chinese horses really show themselves!

You can click on the Original Problems tab on the top to see the whole list of published problems. Problem numbers are links to the problems – click on any number to see the problem. Standard search using Ctrl+F also works for the list.

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Updates as of 16-19.Nov, 2012:

I’m grateful to 4 authors – Nikolaj Zujev, Georgi Hadzi-VaskovKenneth Solja, Petko A. Petkov  for “coming back to the site” again with their new problems!

  • (19.11) See an interesting original with a non-standard realization of Dentist theme by Petko A. Petkov – No.171!
  • (18.11) And one more original problem of today – a synthesis of two complicated fairy conditions – Take&Make and KoBul Kings – by Kenneth Solja – see No.170
  • (18.11) A new original problem is added – see light miniature with Grasshoppers by Georgi Hadzi-VaskovNo.169

(17.11) I’ve added 8 more of my published problems. Again, for most of you only 2 of them can be something new, as 6 others are published here, in Original Problems. You can see a list of 56 problems I have for now in My Problems section. But I’ll mention only 2 of just added, published in the magazines:

  • No.54 Neutral Locust and Nightriders in h#3, published in Variantim;
  • No.56 White anti-batteries with the white King and NAOs in h#2,5, published in StrateGems.

  • (16.11) It’s nice to see a Lithuanian author, Nikolaj Zujev, again on the site! See ANI-problem complicated for solving – No.168

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Your original problems are very welcome!!


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Updates as of 12-13.Nov, 2012:

  • (13.11) Warm welcome to world-known Australian composer and problem-editor –Geoff Foster! I’m happy to show you a nice miniature by Geoff – No.167. My gratitude to the author for his problem and also for all work he does for chess composition! 
  • (12.11) I’m happy to show you one new original problem – No.118.1 – by Bosko Miloseski, which is really a good improvement to his problem No.118, published in August-2012. The both problems are on the same page, so you can see the difference. Thanks a lot to the author for his work!

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Updates as of 10-11.Nov, 2012:

I’ve added 12 more of my published problems. Really, for most of you only 4 of them can be something new, as 8 others were published here, in Original Problems. You can see a list of 47 problems in My Problems section, or the last problems added – by the links shown below (added 11.nov, 10.nov).

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Site Updates-091112

Updates as of 08-09.Nov, 2012:

  • (09.11) The new original problem I’ve to show you is something very different to all the others. You have a problem for solving by Seetharaman Kalyan! See – No.166 – Construct an “Illegal cluster”! – with a book prize offered!
  • (08.11) So, my dear Friends – it’s a day when I had to create page No.100 in Original problems section! Of course, I couldn’t miss it to show my own problem, just finished and the very first Take & Make I’ve composed – No.165.
    I like this one myself! 🙂

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Site Updates-041112

Updates as of 03-04.Nov, 2012:

  • (04.11) Welcome to Lithuanian author – Nikolaj Zujev! See a nice hs#4 problem with chinese pieces – No.163 !
  • (03.11) See a new original problem added – Diyan Kostadinov, combination of fairy conditions Anti Take&Make and Take&Make in No.162. Nice to see Diyan‘s problem again on the site! 

(03.11) I’ve added 4 more of my published problems. I guess that many of you have already seen them, as these are KoBul Kings problems I’ve already shown in thematic issue Ideas with KoBul Kings. Anyway, had to add them, as I’ve decided to to create a full list of all my published problems (luckily, I don’t have too many of them! 🙂 ). You can see 36 of them in My Problems section, or the last problems added directly from here:

  • No.33 – Light Miniature with KoBul Kings
  • No.34 – My the very best of KoBul Kings
  • No.35 – Joint problem with Petko A. Petkov, Locusts in KoBul Kings problem
  • No.36 – A simple one, good idea with a weak realization?