Christmas Blitz JF2014

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Theme: IMITATOR(S) on the board!

Rules: 

  • Stipulations:
    a) H#, H=, H== in 2-4 moves
    b) Ser-H#, Ser-H=, Ser-H==, Pser-h#(=,==) till 8 moves
    c) HS#, HS=, HS== in 2-4 moves.
  • Problems with one or more Imitators on the board. Other fairy pieces are not allowed, EXCEPT Chameleon pieces of the classical type S-B-R-Q-S and Royal pieces (from orthodox/Chameleon types).
  • Colour of pieces: white, black, neutral and half-neutral pieces are allowed.
  • Other Fairy conditions allowed:
    a) No promotions to Imitator
    b) Chameleon Chess (type S-B-R-Q-S…)
    c) Maximummers, Minimummers and their combinations.
  • Computer tested problems only! Please mention the program used for testing!

See EXAMPLES of Imitator-problems and also some information about Imitator in the Forum’s post “Imitator – definition, features, implementation“.

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Judge: IGM Petko A. Petkov – International Judge of FIDE.

Term: 20 days! Please send your problems till December, 24th, 24:00 to julia@juliasfairies.com

The Award will be published on Julia’s Fairies website on the 31st of December, 2014.

Prize winners will get a Christmas chocolate and printed Diplomas in January, 2015.

You are very welcome to participate!

2nd KoBulChess TT – Christmas Tourney 2014

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2nd KoBulChess TT – Christmas Tourney 2014

Here is the announcement of the second thematic tourney of the website KoBulChess which is a Christmas Tourney 2014.
Theme: All type problems (#/=, H#/H=, S#/S=, HS#/HS= etc.) in 2-4 moves with the fairy condition Circle SneK. Other fairy pieces and conditions are not allowed. Royal pieces can be used of course. →more…

Michael Grushko 60 JT

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Michael Grushko 60 Jubilee Tourney – Announcement

Required are fairy-miniatures with free theme. All types of problems are accepted but with at least one fairy condition. All originals should be computer tested with any of the following programs: Popeye, WinChloe, Alybadix.
Judge: Michael Grushko. Please send entries to the director, Paz Einat (paz@pazeinat.com; 45a Moshe Levi St. Nes Ziona, 74207, Israel) with the remark MG-60 JT. Closing date: 31.05.2015   → See the whole announcement!

Quick Composing TT-121

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superproblem-ru-logoQuick Composing TT-121 is announced – 20-09-2014

Tourney name: “A single unit gives mate by double check”
Stipulation: fairies
Theme: The double check may be given by a fairy piece such as Double-Grasshopper (or DG family such as Double-Rookhopper, Double-Bishopper), Rose (or Rose family), Spider, Reflecting Bishop (or Reflecting family), Moose, Sparrow, Ubi-Ubi… The double check may also be the effect of a fairy condition.
All stipulations, fairy pieces and fairy conditions are allowed.
Judges: Vlaicu Crişan & Eric Huber.
Closing date: October 20, 2014
Entries to Aleksey Oganesjan via e-mail: alex_rox@mail.ru
All received problems will be presented to the judges in anonymous form.
Award will be published on the website http://superproblem.ru
Download the announcement in English [pdf, 69 KB]

Arnold Beine 60 JT

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= 216th TT of Die Schwalbe

On the occasion of the 60th birthday of its fairy-editor Arnold Beine Die Schwalbe announces a TT.

Theme: Required are problems with one of the following stipulations: #/=, h#/h=, s#/s=, r#/r=, hs#/hs= in 2 – n moves with Annan Сhess and neutral pieces. At least one neutral piece stands on or moves to a square between a white (or neutral) and a black (or neutral) piece, where it causes an Annanchess-effect for both sides; both effects play a certain role within the solution. Fairy pieces are permitted, but no other fairy-conditions. All entries must be tested by Popeye (version 4.63 or higher). →Read more…

Judge: Franz Pachl. For prizewinners there is a prize fond up to 300 Euro.
Entries until 31.12.2014 to the tourney director Arnold Beine, Grund 15, 65366 Geisenheim; arnold.beine@web.de

Participants of JF-2014/II & the judge of JF-2014/III

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Dear Friends,

The second informal tournament of this year – JF-2014/II – has finished on the 31st of August, 2014. Thanks a lot to all participants and to the judge, Dmitri Turevski, for his future work! I will check again all published problems and versions participating in the tournament, but I’d like to ask all participants to look at the problems’ list as well. By default, only the last published version of the problem participates in the competition. Please let me know if you’d like some specific version to participate!  

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 3rd informal tournament of this year – JF-2014/III, September-December!
Any fairy problem can participate, and I’m here for you to publish it as soon as I can, usually in 1-2 days.

KjellWidlertI’m happy to introduce you the judge of this period – Kjell Widlert – An International Judge, IM in composing and solving, the fairy and solution editor of the Swedish magazine “Springaren”, a world famous fairy expert and composer of original style, who has also composed a large number of problems in collaboration with other composers during chess composition meetings, and, of course, one of the best commentators on JF! Also, Kjell has been the Swedish delegate to the PCCC/WFCC “for the last 100 years or so :-)”(K.W.), and was a Vice President for 20 years. Warm welcome to Kjell! 

Hanspeter Suwe 65 Jubilee Tourney

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There is a new closing date for the Hanspeter Suwe 65 Jubilee Tourney (joint 215th Theme Tourney of Die Schwalbe and 73rd Theme Tourney of feenschach): Please send your contribution until December 31, 2014 to Thomas Brand (t.brand@gmx.net). Theme definition can be found at:
http://www.feenschach.de/downloads/suwe65-jt.pdf or  http://www.dieschwalbe.de/kompositionsturniere.htm.

4th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2015 (C 15.1.2015)

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FIDE-logoThe International Chess Federation (FIDE), within the framework of its “Chess Composition” special project, is organizing the 4th FIDE World Cup in Composing for 2015 in eight sections.

The tournament is coordinated with the WFCC Presidium and is a part of the joint efforts by FIDE and WFCC for the popularization and development of chess composition worldwide.

Karol Mlynka 70 JT – fairies

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KMlynka70JT-aw“First of all, I would like to thank all those who published the information on my jubilee tournament and, of course, the participants for their high quality contributions. Although the announcement had allowed any kind of chess composition and any stipulations, only twomovers with cyclic change of defensive motifs were submitted. Not even a single problem did come on the theme change of harmful effects. Much to my regret, there were no threemovers or selfmates. The participants were not numerous but can be counted among the finest chess composers, as reflected in the award itself.” → Read more..