Tournaments and Awards – Page 18

The judge of JF-2015-II

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I’m happy to announce the judge of informal tournament JF-2015/II – Ofer Comay – a problem composer of all genres, and a former world champion in chess solving. Ofer is also known for his theoretical contribution in end-game study theory and he is the author of one of the first chess problem solving program (CS) in the early 80’s.

In the last years Ofer is focused on fairies and helpmates. He is also involved in other projects – a co-founder of a software company and the author of the popular science book “Science or Fiction?” which, in short, tries to show to every science amateur that a central part of the standard model of particle physics is a bluff… Ofer has three children and two cute grandsons.

Warm welcome to Ofer!

You’re welcome to participate in the second informal tournament of this year – JF-2015/II, July-December!
Any fairy problem can participate, and I’m here for you to publish it faster. – Julia

Mémorial Blondel, section A

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mt-blondel-sec-a-ann — Mémorial Blondel, section A

58th WCCC – Awards of Fairy Composing Tournaments

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58th World Congress of Chess Composition

The Awards of Fairy Composing Tournaments

See also the whole Bulletin of the Congress! (PDF, 118 pages)

1st RIGA BLACK BALSAM TT – The Award

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58^th World Congress of Chess Composition

1^st RIGA BLACK BALSAM TT

The AWARD

Judge: Julia Vysotska

First of all I would like to thank all the participants of this competition! I am pleasantly surprised to have received so many interesting works of very high quality, and I am honored to be a judge of this tournament! → See the Award

15th Japanese Sake Tourney – 58th WCCC

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The 15th Japanese Sake Tourney

Theme: H#2, Face-to-Face and/or Back-to-Back,
with neutral pieces.

Judges: Tadashi Wakashima, Toshiki Kobayashi, Masato Yoshii

Closing Date: 5^th of August (Wednesday), 10 p.m.
E-mail entries should be sent to Tadashi Wakashima (tadashi@hcn.zaq.ne.jp) before 30^th of July (Thursday).

Details & example problems: in PDF document

AWARD JF-2013/III

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Dear Friends, I have a pleasure to announce

The Award of Julia’sFairies-2013/III
by Eric Huber

I am very grateful to Eric Huber and impressed by his Award – with its notes, links to original publications, examples in the appendix and most of all by his analysis of the problems.

I’m happy to see the many different names in the Award. I heartily congratulate all of you, my dear authors, for your achievements!

And, of course, I appreciate very much the contributions of ALL who send compositions and post comments to JF! Thank you!!

The Award is provisional and will become final after one month. – Julia

Award JF Retros and Proof Games 2013/2014

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Julia’s Fairies
Informal Tournament Retros and Proof Games 2013/2014

Award by Hans Gruber (Regensburg, Germany), International Judge of the FIDE

“In recent years, many parts of the retro genre have been strongly developing, including fairy retros and fairy proof games. As the specific characteristics of retros are quite distinct from those of other genres, it is advisable to judge them in separate tournaments. Julia’s Fairies has proven to clearly attract retro composers so that a satisfying number of originals (26 in total) competed in its first retros and proof games tournament.” ?See full Award in PDF!

With a gratitude to Hans Gruber for the willingness to judge this competition and for so fast, precise and competent work! My congratulations to the active authors and especially authors of awarded problems in this complicated genre! – Julia

13th Tzuica Tourney – 58th WCCC

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13th Tzuica Tourney

Theme: Helpselfmates with pin mates.

Judges: Vlaicu Crisan & Eric Huber

Deadline: Submit your entries (diagram + full solution)

to Eric Huber by e-mail hubereric@yahoo.fr until August 2nd;
during the Congress to Dinu-Ioan Nicula until Wednesday, August 5th at 20:00

Details & example problems: in PDF document

“Seven Chess Notes” magazine – Fairies 2014

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Results of Fairies
“Seven Chess Notes” magazine
Periods: 2014
(RUS, PDF, 1 page)

End of JF-2015/I

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Dear Friends,

The first informal tourney for fairy problems published on Julia’s Fairies website in 2015, January-June – JF-2015/I – is ended on June, 30^th. The judge of this period – Kostas Prentos – will have a huge work, judging about 170 problems! I hope, it will be not only complicated, but also pleasant task, as there’re many very good works. And I’m sure, that all authors will be patient to wait for the Award as long time as it is needed.

Some short info about current issues:

I’m sorry, I really had no time even to think about an appointing of the judge for JF-2015/II (July-December), will try to do it during July
I’ve a pleasure to tell you that yesterday I’ve got the Award JF-2013/III from Eric Huber and I’ll try to publish it as soon as possible, hopefully on the end of this week or the beginning of the next one
I should tell you that during July and the first part of August I won’t be able to publish so many problems as the last time, as I need some time to analyze the problems coming for my TT, the 1st RBB, to compose myself for WCCC’s TTs, and also to go there..

I hope for your understanding. And I wish good luck to all of you in WCCC’s competitions! – Julia