FCCP: April 2023 Update!
FCCP: April 2023 Update! (by Shankar Ram)
This time, only a sequel to the earlier article on “Reciprocal Stipulations“:
Now renamed as “Multi-Goal Stipulations, Quodlibets and Argentinian Twins“.

Conflictio & ANDA Fairy Planet
Just a reminder, that all issues of Conflictio (by Juraj Lörinc), ANDA Fairy Planet (by Petko A. Petkov) and Fairings (by Christopher Feather) can be found in the Articles section of JF.
The recent updates are:
Originals April 2023

JF Original Problems | April, 2023
The judge of JF-2023: K. Seetharaman
The judge of Retro & PG problems 2023-2024: N/A
Dear composers, I still have no judge for PG & Retro tournament, I’d be grateful to the one who is willing to accept this job.
The order of publication might be not the same as in the waiting list: the problems easy to test and to animate, C+, and those without additional questions to composers will go first.
- (30.04) No.1747 (PG 9) – Velmurugan Nallusamy – “Dedicated to my dear wife – Sneha”.
- (29.04) No.1746 (#2 ; Edgehog) – Hubert Gockel – “Threat reduction and return (as variant mates).”
- (09.04) No.1745 (s=5) – Kurt Keller – “Happy Easter to all Julia’s Fairies readers!”
- (08.04) No.1744 (hs#2) – Julia Vysotska – Composed for the 49th Latvian Chess Solving Championship (a part of WSC cup), which took place today. Solved by only one person out of 15 (Latvians and Lithuanians). Is it too difficult for fairy composers too? 🙂 Dedicated to Marjan Kovačević for his birthday today!
Animated diagrams use Py2Web by Dmitri Turevski and WinChloe‘s graphics, Christian Poisson
Originals March 2023

JF Original Problems | March, 2023
The judge of JF-2023: K. Seetharaman
The judge of Retro & PG problems 2023-2024: N/A
Dear composers, I still have no judge for PG & Retro tournament, and I’d be grateful to the one who is willing to accept this job.
If you sent me a problem, but don’t see your name in the list below, please write me! Please don’t send me more than 1 problem at one time and don’t send the next one before the previous is published! Thank you!
The order of publication might be not the same as in the waiting list: the problems easy to test and to animate, C+, and those without additional questions to composers will go first.
To be published in April: Kurt Keller, Paul Rãican, Hubert Gockel
- (31.03) No.1743 (A=>B in 13, Upside-Down Chess) – Kevin Begley – “Dedicated to Michel Caillaud Super-AUW for both white (QSRBQ) and black (qbsrq)…” . Warm welcome to Kevin! The presentation of inverted diagram is still under further improvement, but I’m glad to announce this original in March.
- (31.03) No.1742 (reci-hs(=)#5.5) – Torsten Linß – “It’s dedicated to Shankar Ram and another example for a possible follow up on his much discussed reciprocal article. “
- (31.03) No.1741 (pser-s#10 ; Superpawn, Berolina Super Pawn, Lion) – János Mikitovics – “black & white batteries, rundlauf, selfpin, selfunpin, excelsiors, Meredith”
- (31.03) No.1740 (hs#4 ; Neutral piece, Zebra, Leaper(2,4) ; Anti-Circe, Circe) – Franz Pachl – ” … reciprocal captures of the fairy-pieces in the selfmate by doublecheck”
- (31.03) No.1739 (hs#2 ; Isardam, Mars Circe) – Manfred Rittirsch – C+ by WinChloe, different interpretation of this combination of conditions by Popeye.
- (30.03) No.1738 (-4 Proca ; AntiCirce Cheylan, Circe) – Klaus Wenda & Andreas Thoma – “Type Cheylan to exclude the move ..”
Animated diagrams use Py2Web by Dmitri Turevski and WinChloe‘s graphics, Christian Poisson
The judge of JF-2023: K. Seetharaman

Dear composers, I’m happy to announce our judge for informal fairy tournament JF-2023 – the well known Indian composer Seetharaman Kalyan! I believe everybody knew Seetharaman as one of the most active members of chess problem society. Have to mention that Seetharaman was also one of the first visitors of just created Julia’sFairies website in April 2012, the one who was always ready to comment some new publications, to support any new ideas. Currently Seetharaman is editing fairy section of The Problemist. One of his most known inventions is Super Guards fairy condition (2012; 14 problems with SuperGuards published on JF). Composes problems in all genres. Age 74.
I’m very grateful to Seetharaman for his support and his good will in doing this job for JF!
Originals February 2023

JF Original Problems | February, 2023
The judge of JF-2023: N/A
The judge of Retro & PG problems 2023-2024: N/A
Dear composers, I still have no judge for both Fairy & Retro tournaments, and I’d be grateful to the one who is willing to accept this job.
If you sent me a problem, but don’t see your name in the list below, please write me! Please don’t send me more than 1 problem at one time and don’t send the next one before the previous is published! Thank you!
The order of publication might be not the same as in the waiting list: the problems easy to test and to animate, C+, and those without additional questions to composers will go first.
To be published in February-March: Klaus Wenda & Andreas Thoma, János Mikitovics, Manfred Rittirsch.
- (19.02) No.1737 (No More Kings) – Bruno Stucker – The starting piece captures all the pieces from the board in as few moves as possible. Warm welcome to Bruno who managed to write the full notation in 5 solutions (twins) without making any mistake! So, enjoy the animation for the debut of “No More Kings” condition on JF!
- (18.02) No.1736 (Defensive PG 3.5) – Shankar Ram – “Reciprocal Zugzwang. Tempo strategy, Double switchback.” (Author)
- (11.02) No.1735 (h#5 ; Moose ; Masand) – Daniel Novomesky – “…chameleon diagonal mirror echo, miniature” (Author)
- (11.02) No.1734 (h#2 ; Lion) – Ladislav Salai jr. & Michal Dragoun – “…and cycle of four white moves” (Authors)
- (11.02) No.1733 (h#4 ; Magic squares) – Henri Nouguier – Warm welcome to Henri who came back to chess composition after a break of 15 years!
- (11.02) No.1723.1 (ser-s#33) – Paul Rãican – a version to 1723 added with the date it was shown in the comment , still no cooks reported 🙂
- (11.02) No.1732 (h#2.4 ; Kobul Kings) – Hiroaki Maeshima – “ODT. Chumakov theme” (Author)
- (11.02) No.1731 (h#4 ; Mars Circe, Anti-Mars Circe) – Armin Geister & Daniel Papack – “we think it’s not only a combinations of two conditions but a new fairy condition: Mars total!” (Authors)
Animated diagrams use Py2Web by Dmitri Turevski and WinChloe‘s graphics, Christian Poisson
Thematics Tournaments Phénix for 2023

Thematics Tournaments Phénix for 2023:
These tournaments are organized in memory of five recently deceased French problemists: Yves Cheylan, Jean Morice, Alain Biénabe, Daniel Joffart and André Davaine.

Originals January 2023


JF Original Problems | January, 2023
The judge of JF-2023: N/A
The judge of Retro & PG problems 2023-2024: N/A
Dear composers, the new informal tournament, JF-2023, is opened now! I still have no judge for it, and I’d be grateful to the one who is willing to accept this job. Well, I’m thinking about no split of the year into 2 tournaments. Partly because it is very hard to find 2 judges in a year, secondly, because most probably I will not be able to publish too many problems this year.
To be published in January – February: Velmurugan Nallusamy, Armin Geister & Daniel Papack, Paul Rãican, Henri Nouguier, Michal Dragoun, Daniel Novomesky
- (22.01) No.1730 (ep 104) – James Malcom – White forces an en passant capture to take place; C-.
- (15.01) No.1729 (h#2 ; Breton Py) – Thomas Maeder – “… The French have coined the term “Breton Py” for the way Popeye does things”(TM)
- (15.01) No.1728 (pser-s#37) – Ľuboš Kekely – “Perhaps the longest pser-s# without fairy pieces and conditions” (LK)
- (15.01) No.1727 (h=8) – Kurt Keller. Warm welcome to Kurt with his first appearance on JF, the “Kindergarten” problem!
- (13.01) No.1726 (ser-=14 ; Rookhopper ; PWC) – Václav Kotěšovec. This problem was dedicated to my jubilee in September 2022. Plus it was so nicely prepared for me, so much “animation-friendly”, so I feel double sorry to publish it so late, and very much grateful to Václav! (JV, Editor)
Animated diagrams use Py2Web by Dmitri Turevski and WinChloe‘s graphics, Christian Poisson