Category: Julia’s Fairies original problems

JF Original Problems | January 2021

The judge of JF-2021-I: not appointed yet.
The judge of Retro & PG problems 2021-2022: not appointed yet. 

• (24.01) No.1524-2 (-34 & #1 Proca ; Anti-Circe) Dmitrij Baibikov (Israel). Correction of No.1524 (JF-R2019-20). No.1524 & 1524.1 are withheld from the tournament JF-R2019-20.
• (24.01) No.1578.1 (#3 ; Anti-Circe) Daniel Papack & Sven Trommler (Germany). The improvement with thematical tries for No.1578, Dedicated to Franz Pachl 70^th birthday.
• (22.01) No.1580 (h#4 ; Transmuted Kings) Ľuboš Kekely (Slovakia).
• (09.01) No.1579 (h#2 ; Madrasi) Manfred Nieroba & Daniel Papack (Germany). Warm welcome to Manfred!
• (08.01) No.1578 (#3 ; Anti-Circe) Sven Trommler (Germany). Dedicated to Franz Pachl 70^th birthday.

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JF Original Problems | December, 2020

The judge of JF-2020/II: Hans Gruber.
The judge of Retro & PG problems 2019-2020: Vlaicu Crișan. 

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2021 !
My very best wishes to everybody!

(19.12.) Julia’s illness is over! ⇒

• (31.12) No.1577 (#2 ; PAO, VAO, NAO, RAO, Chinese Camelrider) Jean-Marc Loustau (France). “Double complete Tertiary Threat Correction (TTC), with successive corrections of thematic double threats” (Author) … and much more!
• (31.12) No.1576 (#3 ; Mars Circe) Armin Geister & Daniel Papack (Germany). “A problem for the New Year’s Eve punch: The same solution – or not…?!” (Authors)
• (30.12) No.1575 (hs#3) János Csák & Gábor Tar (Hungary).
• (29.12) No.1551.2 (ser-s#22 ; Circe Rex Inclusiv) Dirk Borst (Netherlands). Correction for No.1551 & 1551.1. “This time I hope to have found a real correction (attached). Both the first and the second cook are impossible in this position. But who knows what Arno will find next!?” (Author)
• (26.12) No.1574 (hs#3.5) Vitaly Medintsev & Aleksey Oganesjan (Russia). “We have managed to implement probably a NEW idea which might be called ‘Promoted Anticipatory Grimshaw’.” (Author)
• (26.12) No.1573 (h#3 ; Take & Make, Transmuted Kings) Sergej Smotrov (Kazakhstan). “Echo mates” (Author)
• (26.12) No.1572 (h#3.5 ; Invisibles) René J. Millour (France). “In this Wenigsteiner using Invisibles, mating by castling occurs twice in a very strange way!” (Author)
• (26.12) No.1552.1 (h#2 ; Take & Make) Jacques Rotenberg & Pierre Tritten (Israel / France). An improved version to No.1552.
• (26.12) No.1524.1 (-33 & #1 Proca ; Anti-Circe) Dmitrij Baibikov (Israel). Correction to No.1524 after comment by Bojan Bašić.
• (26.12) No.1571 (hs#10) Torsten Linß (Germany). “Critical moves by three pieces with return to their original squares.” (Author)
• (26.12) No.1570 (hs#8.5 ; Neutral pieces ; Alphabetic Chess, PWC, Einstein Chess, Republican Chess) Michael Grushko (Israel).
• (25.12) No.1569 (h#2.5 ; Neutral pieces ; Anti-Circe) Manfred Rittirsch (Germany). “Soul Sacrifice”
• (25.12) No.1568 (h#2 ; Brunner Chess, Back-to-Back) Karol Mlynka (Slovakia).
• (25.12) No.1567 (hs#4 ; Anti-Andernach, Mars Circe) Igor Kochulov (Russia). Enjoy the order of promotions!
• (25.12) No.1566 (hs#3.5 ; LEO, NAO) Franz Pachl (Germany).
• (25.12) No.1565 (h#2 ; Breton Adverse) Thomas Maeder (Switzerland). Glad to see Thomas on JF again, after previous publication back in 2015, No.897.

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JF Original Problems | November, 2020(2)

The judge of JF-2020/II: Hans Gruber.
The judge of Retro & PG problems 2019-2020: Vlaicu Crișan. 

Coming soon: nobody in the waiting list…

• (30.11) No.1564 (hs#4) János Csák (Hungary) & Aleksey Oganesjan (Russia). Attractive sacrifices lead to ODT “model checks” and model mates.
• (28.11) No.1563 (h#4 ; Grasshopper) Niels Danstrup (Denmark). An interesting coincidence about the numbers: the previous problem by Niels was No.1553 on the date 28.10!
• (26.11) No.1562 (h#4 ; Functionary Chess) Oleg Paradzinskij (Ukraine). Warm welcome to Oleg!
• (24.11) No.1561 (h#2 ; HurdleColourChanging pieces, Lion, Rook-Lion, Rose-Lion) Michal Dragoun (Czech Republic). The problem is not computer-tested – I found firstly geometrical pattern and then I discovered, that neither Popeye nor WinChloe are able to test Andernach roselion…(Author). Important to note two different names for the same property: Andernach hoppers = HurdleColourChanging pieces.

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JF Original Problems | November, 2020

The judge of JF-2020/II: Hans Gruber.
The judge of Retro & PG problems 2019-2020: Vlaicu Crișan. 

Coming soon: nobody in the waiting list…

• (16.11) No.1560 (PG 9 ; Nanna Chess) Gregor Werner (Germany). Warm welcome to Gregor!
• (15.11) No.1559 (s#7 ; Circe) Ivan Bryukhanov (Ukraine). Welcome back after 8 years break! 😉
• (15.11) No.1558 (PG 2.5, 7-fold checkmate ; Add pieces, KoBul Kings, Make&Take) Pierre Tritten (France). Just an empty board?! (no animation)
• (15.11) No.1557 (hs#2 ; Grasshopper, PAO, VAO) Georgy Evseev & Boris Shorokhov (Russia). Welcome to solve!
• (06.11) No.1556 (hs=3 ; AntiCirce) Gábor Tar (Hungary). „Anticice pin” on the same square.
• (06.11) No.1551.1 (ser-s#21 ; Circe Rex Inclusiv) Dirk Borst (Netherlands). Correction to No.1551: bPe7 is added to correct the cook found by Arno Tüngler and Kjell Widlert
• (06.11) No.1525.2 (h=10.5) Anatoly Stepochkin & Sergey Shumeiko (Russia). Improvement to No.1525.1: same idea, but nicer solution.
• (03.11) No.1555 (hs#3.5) János Csák & Gábor Tar (Hungary). Warm welcome to János!
• (02.11) No.1554 (hs#4) Vitaly Medintsev (Russia). ODT model mates and something more to discover…

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JF Original Problems | October, 2020 (2)

The judge of JF-2020/II: Hans Gruber.
The judge of Retro & PG problems 2019-2020: Vlaicu Crișan. 

Coming soon: nobody in the waiting list…

• (28.10) No.1553 (h#3 ; Grasshopper ; Take & Make) Niels Danstrup (Denmark). “I have made some ChessProblems back in 1977 and 1978 (!), and have started again in 2020. “ – Welcome back and to JF!
• (27.10) No.1552 (h#2 ; Take & Make) Jacques Rotenberg & Pierre Tritten (Israel / France). “Paradoxical specific play…”
• (27.10) No.1551 (ser-s#21 ; Circe Rex Inclusiv) Dirk Borst (Netherlands). I’ve got used to see Dirk’s name on JF while he was a judge of Retro&PG problems (JF-R2017-18)  and absolutely surprised now to see this is the first Dirk’s problem I publish on JF! Is it possible at all? 😉 Warm welcome, Dirk!

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JF Original Problems | October, 2020

The judge of JF-2020/II: Hans Gruber.
The judge of Retro & PG problems 2019-2020: Vlaicu Crișan. 

Coming soon: nobody in the waiting list

• (22.10) No.1550 (h#8; Maximummer) Anatoly Stepochkin (Russia). If bQ&bR would exchange their places it would be #1…
• (19.10) No.1549 (hs#3; Mars Circe) Armin Geister & Daniel Papack (Germany). “inspired by R. Kohring”
• (17.10) No.1548 (-8 & #1 Proca ; Circe Assassin) Paul Rãican & Bojan Bašić (Romania / Serbia).
• (14.10) No.1547 (hs#5; Anti-Circe) Dmitri Turevski (Russia). Could be challenging for solvers!
• (14.10) No.1496.2 (-13 & s#1 Proca ; Anti-Circe Cheylan) Paul Rãican & Klaus Wenda (Romania / Austria). An improvement to No.1496 is made with forward stipulation changed to s#1 and Anti-Circe type to Cheylan.
• (13.10) No.1545.1 (h#2.5 ; Circe) Ivo Tominić (Croatia). An improvement to No.1545: “an improvement of my 1545 in two respects:
  1) bSg2 is replaced by bP, 2) unnecessary capture on f3 is avoided.
  Another wP put on e3 recloses third rank for Rb3; due to the consequential loss of thematic diagonal bQ is transfered to d5. Black Pe6 becomes superfluous when position is rotated against a vertical axis (a1=h1)”

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JF Original Problems | September, 2020 (2)

The judge of JF-2020/II: Hans Gruber.
The judge of Retro & PG problems 2019-2020: Vlaicu Crișan. 

Coming soon: nobody in the waiting list…

• (30.09) No.1546 (hs#9) Torsten Linß (Germany): “I hope, this time Arno likes the interaction between the two sides 😉 “
• (25.09) No.1545 (h#2.5 ; Circe) Ivo Tominić (Croatia). “White lines of action are intersecting on the squares b2, d2 and e2 with the black lines guarding the first rank…“
  Warm welcome to Ivo!
• (20.09) No.1540.1 (h#2 ; Anti-Köko) Manikumar S (India). Just a little improvement to the problem No.1540: a better twin suggested in the comments by Joost.
• (19.09) No.1544 (s#2 ; Royal Grasshopper ; SAT) Neal Turner (Finland). If the problem should be C+? Promotion ignores the royalty of G.
• (18.09) No.1543 (ser-hs+15) Ľuboš Kekely (Slovakia). “Double excelsior. Minor promotions.”
• (18.09) No.1542 (hs#5.5) Anatoly Stepochkin (Russia).
• (16.09) No.1541 (hs#3.5) Petko Petkov & Geoff Foster (Bulgaria / Australia).
  Happy birthday to me! ☺ ❀     Thank you!

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JF Original Problems | September, 2020

The judge of JF-2020/II: Hans Gruber.
The judge of Retro & PG problems 2019-2020: Vlaicu Crișan. 

Coming soon: nobody in the waiting list…

• (13.09) No.1540 (h#2 ; Anti-Köko) Manikumar S (India). Warm welcome to Dr.Manikumar – first time in JF Problems! “Two of our composers in India: Manikumar in Chennai and Phanibhushan in Bangalore are also doctors(neonatologists). They are involved in newborn and pediatric care, including Covid positive cases.” (Shankar Ram @MatPlus forum)
• (13.09) No.1539 (-5 & s#1 Proca ; Anti-Circe Cheylan) Andreas Thoma (Germany). Gladly joining Andreas with Happy birthday wishes to Klaus Wenda! ❀
• (10.09) No.1538 (h#2 ; Take&Make) Yevhen Trakhtman (Ukraine). Glad to see one of the youngest fairy composers already the 2^nd time on JF!
• (08.09) No.1537 (h#2 ; Isardam) Chris Feather (England) (https://wellnessforlessmedicalcenter.com/tramadol.html). “Dedicated to Petko with the best wishes for the success of his latest publication: Anda Fairy Planet … Geoff Foster sent me a copy!”
• (08.09) No.1536 (h#2 ; Neutral Bishop/Rook/Knight ; Take & Make) Julia Vysotska (Latvia) & Daniel Papack (Germany). The result of “work-shop” created by No.1530.
• (05.09) No.1535 (ser-#4 ; Neutral Pawn ; Take & Make) Sébastien Luce (France). “…the four corners theme of the neutral Bishop of promotion…”
• (05.09) No.1534 (h#2 ; LEO, PAO, VAO) Ladislav Salai jr., Emil Klemanič (Slovakia) & Michal Dragoun  (Czehia).  “Functions cycle of three leos…”

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JF Original Problems | August, 2020

The judge of JF-2020/II: Hans Gruber.
The judge of Retro & PG problems 2019-2020: Vlaicu Crișan. 

Coming soon: nobody in the waiting list

• (29.08) No.1533 (hs#11.5) Torsten Linß (Germany). “I hope solvers (if there are any) and readers will enjoy the problem.”
• (29.08) No.1532 (PG 16 ; Black Functionary, Black Passes if Stuck) David Antonini & Nicolas Dupont (France). Warm welcome to David Antonini – first time in JF Problems!
• (19.08) No.1531 (h#2 ; Take & Make) Chris Feather (England). “The elements are familiar but I hope that there is no specific anticipation. If there is, I am sure that knowledgeable readers will let you (or me) know!”
• (18.08) No.1530 (h#1.5 ; Neutral Bishop, Neutral Nightrider ; Take & Make) Julia Vysotska (Latvia). Maybe this toy is even solvable? 😉 No clever idea for the extension.
• (17.08) No.1529 (#2 ; Breton Adverse) Hubert Gockel (Germany). “Two black Bishop stars, focal play, black correction, black King in mirror position.”
• (11.08) No.1525.1 (h=10.5) Anatoly Stepochkin & Sergey Shumeiko (Russia). An improvement of No.1525 (Anatoly Stepochkin).
• (05.08) No.1528 (hs#3.5* ; Grasshopper, Lion ; Take & Make) Borislav Gadjanski (Serbia). “Orthogonal-diagonal echo mates with zugzwang in the last move. Ten (5+5) T&M moves.”

All previously published problems & competitions you can find on the page  JF Tournaments or using search options in JF Problems. 

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Original Problems | July, 2020

The judge of JF-2020/II: Hans Gruber.
The judge of Retro & PG problems 2019-2020: Vlaicu Crișan. 

Coming soon: nobody in the waiting list

• (30.07) No.1527 (PG 10.5 ; Transmission Menace) Kostas Prentos (USA). “The use of Transmission Menace was inspired by Eric Huber’s No.1521…”
• (30.07) No.1526 (ser-h#15 ; Neutral pieces) Michael Grushko (Israel).

All previously published problems & competitions you can find on the page  JF Tournaments or using search options in Original Problems. 

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