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THE AWARD of Christmas Blitz JF-2014

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Dear Friends,

I’m happy to present you THE AWARD of Christmas Blitz JF-2014! The number of participants, of beautiful problems was really a great surprise for me and for the judge! Thank you so much, dear participants of the Blitz, for your activity, efforts, creative ideas! And of course, many thanks to our judge, Petko A. Petkov!

I have to tell that the Award was written in a very short period of time, so I apologize for any mistakes done in the text, diagrams, solutions.. I’d be grateful if you send me emails about anything to be corrected! white-dark-laima-christmas

I heartily congratulate all the winners and participants! And I wish a Happy New Year to all of you! Let it be successful, interesting and motivating for you, full of pleasant surprises and happiness! – Julia.

Christmas Blitz JF2014: The Participants

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Dear Friends, I’m so happy to tell you that this tournament is just fantastic! Number of problems, quality of problem is amazing! Congratulations and gratitude to all participants from myself and from the judge, IGM Petko A. Petkov!

We’ll try to publish the Award on the 31^st of December, but for now please see The LIST of PARTICIPANTS (press to show/hide):

Author’s name	Author’s country	Problems
Agostini, Valerio	Italy	48
Armeni, Alberto	Italy	59, 60, 83
Balasubramanian, S.K.	India	62, 63
Barth, Michael	Germany	38
Beine, Arnold	Germany	81, 82
Crișan, Vlaicu	Romania	84, 85, 86
Dietrich, Stephan	Germany	5, 6, 52, 66
Enemark, Bjørn	Denmark	51, 57
Feather, Chris	England	42
Foster, Geoff	Australia	33
Ganapathi, Gani	India	1, 47, 58
Grolman, Lev	Russia	67, 68
Harris, Peter	South Africa	11-13, 21-32
Huber, Eric	Romania	85, 86, 87, 88
Kostadinov, Diyan	Bulgaria	41, 61, 90
Krätschmer, Ralf	Germany	78, 79
Lörinc, Juraj	Slovakia	14, 15, 18, 19, 34, 35, 43-45
Luce, Sébastien	France	10*, 16, 17, 39, 40
Millour, René	France	80
Mlynka, Karol	Slovakia	2, 7-9
Nefyodov, Vladislav	Russia	67, 68
Packa, Ladislav	Slovakia	49
Pacurar, Cornel	Canada	50
Parrinello, Mario	Italy	46
Prentos, Kostas	USA	71-77
Rallo, Vito	Italy	53-56, 69
Rittirsch, Manfred	Germany	70
Sick, Oliver	Germany	64, 65, 89
Solja, Kenneth	Finland	3, 4, 20
Tritten, Pierre	France	10*, 36, 37
30 authors	15 countries	90 problems

Christmas Blitz JF2014

Tournamens, JF / Tournaments and Awards December 4, 2014 August 20, 2020 4 Comments

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, 24^th, 24:00 to julia@juliasfairies.com

The Award will be published on Julia’s Fairies website on the 31^st 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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Bulletin of The Israel Chess Composition Society
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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Quick 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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Arnold Beine 60 JT

= 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 31^st 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 3^rd 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.

I’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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The 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.