Julia's Fairies

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

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

JF Original Problems | September, 2022

The judge of JF-2022/II: not appointed yet
The judge of Retro & PG problems 2021-2022: Thomas Brand

Dear composers, I’m very sorry for a delay in publication of your original problems! I’m involved in several projects at the moment, being a director of the youth composing competition 6.YCCC in the frames of WCCC, being in the organizing committee of WCCC 2022, including the website and registrations… plus some important updates for the WFCC website about the World Solving Cup, WCCI, WCCT.

The next days I’ll give a list of composers whom I will try to publish in September-October. But I have to say that practically up to the end of year I seem to be very much overloaded, considering preparations for the Congress, the time there, and office work upon arrival.

Animated diagrams use Py2Web by Dmitri Turevski and WinChloe‘s graphics, Christian Poisson