Julia's Fairies

Julia's Fairies

JF-HSP-2012-Closed

 The 1st Thematic Tourney by

Julia’s Fairies

JULIA’S FAIRIES – HSP – 2012

Closed on 15-Oct-2012!

I’m so much happy to tell you that 64 problems by 39 authors from 20 countries are submitted to the tourney! I appreciate your efforts a lot and I’m so thankful to all participants! I wish to all of you to be successful there!!

You can see a list of participants here! I hope that everything is right, but in case if you’ve sent an entry to me and haven’t find yourself in this list – please, let me know!

The Award will be published on Julia’s Fairies site in December of 2012. Also, it will be sent by email to all participants. Same as you, I will be waiting for it a lot! And I hope that the winners will get the sweets by Christmas!


RULES: Help-self problems (HSP) of any possible types: Help-self mates (HS#), HS=, HS==, HR#, HR=, etc.
in any number of moves.

THEME: Battery-play with fairy elements

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

→The announcement…


Site Updates-151012

Updates as of 13-15.Oct, 2012:

  • (15.10) Warm welcome to Georgi Hadzi-Vaskov, Macedonia! See a nice problem No.152
  • (13.10) I’m just back home from a wonderful Italy! And I have something new for you, my dear readers! – please see just published 2 more fine problems by GM Petko A. Petkov – No.150, 151! Thanks a lot to Mr.Petkov!

You can click on the Original Problems tab on the top to see the whole list of published problems. Problem numbers are links to the problems – click on any number to see the problem. Standard search using Ctrl+F also works for the list.


(15.10) New issue of Fairings by Chris Feather Fairings No.27 – Oct/2012 –  is added to the Articles page!


(15.10) It’s the last day for submitting your entries for Thematic tourney Julia’sFairies-HSP-2012! All your problems coming on the night from 15th to 16th of October will be accepted as well! I’m very grateful to all participants!! 


(15.10) Dear Visitors and Commentators! Today I’ve installed several plugins to prevent spam comments (several hundreds per day) and registration of spam-users (I had about 900 of them!). Otherwise I had to delete them manually. But of  course, I’m afraid that either your comments can be considered as spam in some cases, or new registrations. I apologize for all possible inconveniences and I’d be grateful if you  write me in case of any problems with commenting on the site. You know, I appreciate your comments here a lot, as I believe all the authors do.


6 months!

Julia’s Fairies – 6 months!

 

On the 10th of October JuliasFairies.com becomes 6 month old!

I’m so happy that it has become well-known for this half a year! I’m so thankful for your activity, for almost 150 original problems published here, for about 55 problems I already have for my first Thematic tourney, for your comments and for your mails! This all means a lot to me, and motivates a lot! Thank you, dear authors, commentators and readers!

 

Let me show you the wonderful gift I’ve got from the one who supports me and this site a lot, who shares his knowledge with all of us, who is simply the best in fairies, and who is the best teacher I ever had – 2 problems by GM Petko A. Petkov:
No.148 – dedicated to me;
No.149 – dedicated to the 6th month Jubilee of the site Julia’s Fairies!
Thank you, thank you, thank you, dear Petko! I’m afraid I can’t find more words – I’m very touched and happy!..

I wish the success to the site, and to all of you in your composing and in your life!

Your, Julia


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Updates as of 04-07.Oct, 2012:

  • (07.10) 2 new problems by Ioannis Garoufalidis are added – see No.146, 147! Thanks a lot to the author!
  • (05.10) What I wanted to do before leaving for a week, was to finish my own problem! (if it was the only thing needed to be finished! 🙂 ). I’m happy I can publish it tonight! Please see No.145 – I will always appreciate your comments, and I will be able to read them in Italy, hopefully!
  • (04.10) Happy to welcome Russian top-masters in fairy genre – Georgy Evseev and Lev Grolman! See a 4-men problem – No.144! Thanks a lot to the authors and welcome to send more entries!
  • (04.10) It’s so nice to get a problem from my the best commentator of the site – Seetharaman Kalyan! Enjoy solving of No.143! And my special thanks to the author!

You can click on the Original Problems tab on the top to see the whole list of published problems. Problem numbers are links to the problems – click on any number to see the problem. Standard search using Ctrl+F also works for the list.


My Vacation – oct2012

Dear Friends,
I’d like to let you know that I’ll be on vacation with limited internet access for a week – 06-13th October.  Going to my lovely Italy, with family, – so with all devices like smart mobile phone, computer and mobile Internet there, I doubt I will be able to work much being with kids on Adriatic sea! 🙂 
But the site will be up and running and I’ll read mails few times per day for sure. I’m thinking about what might be needed from me… and this is what I’ve found to comment:

  • Of course, please continue to send your problems for Thematic tourney JULIA’S FAIRIES – HSP – 2012 – I will read mail, and will reply with confirmations about receiving!
  • About Original problems for the site: I can’t promise to publish them the same day as received, but still I hope to be able to publish at least 1 problem in few days. Anyway, I will inform the authors about planned publication, and for sure everything I’ve got during that week will be on the site after 14th.
  • About Comments on the site: only your first comment on the site needs an approval from me. All the next comments, in case of using the same name and email address in the comment form, will be published automatically right after posting. If you post comment for the first time during that week, it will be approved with some delay, during the day.
  • If you would like me to publish some information on the site – please make it almost ready for publication. I will try to put it on the web in 1-2 days.
  • If you have anything urgent to publish – please send it by Friday, the 5th!
  • Hm… for now I have no more idea what also? I have a  funny feeling about leaving the site as a little baby without my permanent supervision.. Please take some care of it! 🙂

Your, Julia


Site Updates-021012

Updates as of 02.Oct, 2012:

  • Welcome to a new author from Italy, Vito Rallo! See and enjoy solving of 3 hs#-problems: No.140, No.141, 142. Thanks a lot to the author!

You can click on the Original Problems tab on the top to see the whole list of published problems. Problem numbers are links to the problems – click on any number to see the problem. Standard search using Ctrl+F also works for the list.


Oscar Bonivento

 

27 November 1914 /
01 October2012

With a deep regret I have to inform that this morning, being 98 years old, has gone famous Italian maestro, President of API, for 50 years editor of Italian chess problem magazine l’Italia Scacchistica and author of dozens of books – Oscar Bonivento.

He was like a father for Italian problemists. Oscar’s death is a heavy loss for Italian and the World chess community.

Per i problemisti italiani è stato come un padre. Ha curato la sezione problemi sull’Italia Scacchistica per oltre 50 anni ed ha scritto decine di libri che per noi sono una vera e propria miniera storica di informazioni.” (Valerio Agostini)

Variantim to tourneys

Dear Friends,

The announcement of V A R I A N T I M is added to the Tourneys section!


Сompetitions at V A R I A N T I M

Bulletin of

The Israel Chess Composition Society

www.variantim.org

Fairy:   

Judge  2012: Petko A. Petkov

Judge  2013:  Christopher Feather    

send  to: 

Michael Grushko, BOX  363  Kiryat Bialik  27019 bargrushko@bezeqint.net

→See the whole announcement


Site Updates-290912

Updates as of 26-29.Sep, 2012:

  • (29.09) And one more problem by Ioannis Garoufalidis! – see KoBul Kings in  No.139 !
  • (28.09) Welcome to a new author from Greece, Ioannis Garoufalidis! See s#10 problem – No.138.
  • (28.09) Please see my own new problem – No.137, Julia Vysotska. I’ve said many times that I don’t like twins much, but the last time seems like I can’t compose without them! Still, I like this problem myself 🙂
  • (27.09) See a new interesting problem by Michael Grushko – No.136 ! Thanks a lot to the author!
  • (27.09) Happy to get one more problem from “the neighbor”! See No.135 by Mečislovas Rimkus (Lithuania) !
  • (26.09) Enjoy a nice problem by Mario Parrinello – No.134 – my lovely Chameleons, cyclic play, complicated solutions!  Warm welcome to the author!
    And one more thing: Mario Parrinello has just got a title of Grandmaster of the FIDE for Chess Compositions (see 
    55th Meeting of the World Federation for Chess Composition). Congratulation!!

I’d like to remind, that you can click on the Original Problems tab on the top to see the whole list of published problems. Problem numbers are links to the problems – click on any number to see the problem. Standard search using Ctrl+F also works for the list.

  • (27.09) Have added No.1-23 of Fairings by Chris Feather to the Articles page. Thanks to Eric Huber, who kindly has sent me these issues! So, now I have all Fairings as of Sep-2012 !