Category: Julia’s Fairies original problems

Updates as of 13-15.Dec, 2012: (16.12) I’m impressed by those, who can come back to their old problems to improve them! See an improved version of the problem published in October – No.153.1, Nikola Predrag! Also, today is Nikola‘s birthday! Congratulations, dear author and commentator!!! (15.12) Warm welcome to new author on the site – Stephan Dietrich, Germany! – see nice Aristocrat-miniature – No.186!

• (15.12) Please see an improved version of the problem published yet in August! – a complicated complex by Semion Shifrin – No.108.1!
• (14.12) Dear friends, on the night I’ve done an update of most of software I use for this website – from the platform till small plugins. I’d be grateful to you if you report me if something works wrong! Thanks for your patience!
• (13.12) As I’ve promised, PDF-version of the Award of Julia’sFairies 1st T.T HSP-2012 for download or print is added! Please let me know if there’re any mistakes! Thanks!
• (13.12) Do you remember an “Illegal cluster” by Seetharaman Kalyan? Solving time is over and now you can see on the same page the results I’ve got from the author!  See update as of 13.12.2012 on the page with problem No.166 ! 

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!!

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!

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!!

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!!

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 article “The Wonderful (new genre) Parry Series“ by 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!

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!!

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.

Your original problems are very welcome!!

Updates as of 16-19.Nov, 2012: I’m grateful to 4 authors – Nikolaj Zujev, Georgi Hadzi-Vaskov, Kenneth 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-Vaskov, No.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. 

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!!

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!

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).

Added as of 11.11.2012:

• No.43 – was already shown in Original Problems of julasfairies.com, No.21
• No.44 – was already shown in Original Problems of julasfairies.com, No.22
• No.45 – was already shown in Original Problems of julasfairies.com, No.23
• No.46 – was already shown in Original Problems of julasfairies.com, No.24
• No.47 – This is my lovely one! Locust in Dentist-theme, dedicated to Petko Petkov – 70th Jubilee.
• No.29 – Composed yet in February, and I’ve just found that it is published in September.

Added as of 10.11.2012:

• No.37 – Neutral Bishop-Locust and Nao in anti-battery play
• No.38 – was already shown in Original Problems of julasfairies.com, No.5
• No.39 – was already shown in Original Problems of julasfairies.com, No.6
• No.40 – was already shown in Original Problems of julasfairies.com, No.14
• No.41 – was already shown in Original Problems of julasfairies.com, No.15
• No.42 – Reciprocal batteries nLO/wB & nLO/wR

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! 🙂

Your original problems are very welcome!