Some statistics about just closed tournament JF-2019/II prepared by Shankar Ram:
Wishing good luck to the judge of this competition, Petko Petkov!
Some statistics about just closed tournament JF-2019/II prepared by Shankar Ram:
Wishing good luck to the judge of this competition, Petko Petkov!
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28-31st of December, 2019 My dear fiends, authors, visitors, commentators… Happy to have all of you visiting JF and sending your contributions! Happy New Year 2020 to all of you! I’m glad to present you some statistics by Shankar Ram: Your new works are very welcome in 2020! With the best wishes – Julia. |
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Animated diagrams use Py2Web by Dmitri Turevski and WinChloe’s graphics. |
All previously published problems you can find in the subsections of Original Problems menu on the top. The judge of JF-2019/II: Petko Petkov. The judge of Retro & PG problems 2019-2020: Vlaicu Crișan.
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11-19th of December, 2019
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Animated diagrams use Py2Web by Dmitri Turevski and WinChloe’s graphics. |
All previously published problems you can find in the subsections of Original Problems menu on the top. The judge of JF-2019/II: Petko Petkov. The judge of Retro & PG problems 2019-2020: Vlaicu Crișan.
Jubilee tourney “Sergey Smotrov – 50”
Stipulation: s#12-N
Theme: logical selfmate in 12 or more moves.
Both orthodox selfmates and selfmates with any quantity of fairy pieces and/or conditions are allowed. Depending on quantity and quality of sent problems, the judge can divided an award into several subsections or, vice versa, can combine several sections into the one.
Judge: Sergey Smotrov | Send entries to the judge sergsmotrov@yandex.ru | Closing date: February 4th, 2020
Award will be published on the website http://superproblem.ru
Quartz 48, November 2019, is online at:
http://quartz.chessproblems.ca/pdf/48/Quartz48.pdf
By Paul Rãican:
The contest has one section: 1. Proof games with #color condition.
It is admitted, but not necessary, to add at most one other condition (but not fairy pieces). The tourney is informal. Send problems to the judge, until the 1st February 2020. Judge: P. Rãican.
#color (or simply #c) was introduced by Andrey Frolkin and Chris Tylor in feenschach 212/2015.
Definition: After a checkmate, the colour of the mating piece(s) is changed and the game resumes, if a legal position results. In a first phase, the authors introduced this condition in helpmates, but then, they also used it in proof games.
See, e.g., the problem No.1374 from Julias fairies. The genre may be tested by Jacobi, with condition #c.
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23rd,28th of November, 2019
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Animated diagrams use Py2Web by Dmitri Turevski and WinChloe’s graphics. |
All previously published problems you can find in the subsections of Original Problems menu on the top. The judge of JF-2019/II: Petko Petkov. The judge of Retro & PG problems 2019-2020: Vlaicu Crișan.
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17th of November, 2019 |
Animated diagrams use Py2Web by Dmitri Turevski and WinChloe’s graphics. |
All previously published problems you can find in the subsections of Original Problems menu on the top. The judge of JF-2019/II: Petko Petkov. The judge of Retro & PG problems 2019-2020: Vlaicu Crișan.
Have just received a wonderful book by Andreas Thoma “Vertrackte Retraktoren”! Though retractors are not my main interest, so nicely made 160 pages of the book, including 531 problem, articles and comics (by Claus Grupen) invite to have a closer look!
You’re welcome to buy it from Andreas, just contact him by e-mail: juanthoma@t-online.de.
Julia’s Fairies • Tournament JF 2019/I • Award
Michal Dragoun, Prague, October 2019
In Julia’s Fairies 2019/I tourney took part 43 problems. It is slightly less than in previous tournaments on Julia’s website and in my opinion, the quality of published problems was lower too. Not in general – I considered relatively high number of problems for low distinction – but I missed problems impressive at the first look.
Published with a gratitude to the judge, Michal Dragoun, for so exceptionally fast results! /Julia/