Awards of tourneys
- Awards of all Tourneys by Julia’s Fairies web-site;
- Other awards – Please send your awards to publish to my e-mail: julia@juliasfairies.com. A post about each new award is published on Julia’s Fairies home and can be found under Awards, other Category of the right menu.
Julia’s Fairies AWARDS
This 3rd competition of 2014 had the most of published problems. And the Award looks really as a monumental work with so many wonderful problems and so many detailed comments! To tell you how strong was this tournament, I want to quote Kjell’s words from the Award: “I don’t think I have ever felt the need to give 8 prizes in a tourney before!“.
I’m very grateful to Kjell for his work! And, one more time this month, I wish to tell to all the winners how great you are, and to all participants how much I appreciate your activity here!
The Award uses animated diagrams. Only one of them couldn’t be animated (Invisibles), and several problems have some parts of the solutions impossible to animate as well. I’m sorry about it! I’ve tried to check all diagrams several times, but they are many, 33(!), and I apologize for any mistakes I might have made. I appreciate your corrections, if needed!
Dear Friends, I’m happy to announce one more Award of JF-2014 –
The Award of Julia’sFairies-2014/II
by Dmitri Turevski
My gratitude to Dmitri for this big and complicated work! Also, I’d like to use this chance to thank Dmitri one more time for the animation program, Py2Web, I use for a year on JF. The program was implemented exactly during period 2014/II, so half of the problems were animated already, but in the Award I’ve made all problems animated. Enjoy!
My congratulations to all the winners and participants of this competition!
Dear Friends, I have a pleasure to announce
The Award of Julia’sFairies-2014/I
by Vlaicu Crişan
As always, I am very grateful to the judge for so big, so complicated work of analyzing many different kinds of fairy problems! I’m sure, that readers will enjoy the problems themselves and also detailed comments and pleasant writing style of Vlaicu!
I heartily congratulate all the winners and participants of this strong competition! Thank you for all kinds of contributions to JF – compositions, articles, comments..!
58th World Congress of Chess Composition
1st RIGA BLACK BALSAM TT
The AWARD
Judge: Julia Vysotska
First of all I would like to thank all the participants of this competition! I am pleasantly surprised to have received so many interesting works of very high quality, and I am honored to be a judge of this tournament! → See the Award
Dear Friends, I have a pleasure to announce
The Award of Julia’sFairies-2013/III
by Eric Huber
I am very grateful to Eric Huber and impressed by his Award – with its notes, links to original publications, examples in the appendix and most of all by his analysis of the problems.
I’m happy to see the many different names in the Award. I heartily congratulate all of you, my dear authors, for your achievements!
And, of course, I appreciate very much the contributions of ALL who send compositions and post comments to JF! Thank you!!
Julia’s Fairies
Informal Tournament Retros and Proof Games 2013/2014
Award by Hans Gruber (Regensburg, Germany), International Judge of the FIDE
“In recent years, many parts of the retro genre have been strongly developing, including fairy retros and fairy proof games. As the specific characteristics of retros are quite distinct from those of other genres, it is advisable to judge them in separate tournaments. Julia’s Fairies has proven to clearly attract retro composers so that a satisfying number of originals (26 in total) competed in its first retros and proof games tournament.” →See full Award in PDF!
With a gratitude to Hans Gruber for the willingness to judge this competition and for so fast, precise and competent work! My congratulations to the active authors and especially authors of awarded problems in this complicated genre! – Julia
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!
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.
Dear Friends,
I’m so happy to tell you that The Award of Julia’s Fairies Marine TT 2013 / PDF version (12 pages) is ready! Enjoy the beauty of Marine problems presented!
The competition was very strong and the Award shows the very best problems, but not mentioned problems are also very good, have something unique and deserves the publication!
I’m grateful to all participants for the activity and creative work, to Petko Petkov for the fast judging, to Geoff Foster for corrections of the mistakes and language, to Thomas Maeder for implementation of some Marine pieces missed in Popeye, to all readers of this Award as your interest is always important and motivating!
My sincere congratulations to the winners
and to all participants!
Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! – Julia
Dear Friends,
I’m so happy to announce The Award of JULIA’S FAIRIES 2012! (see also PDF version of the Award)
You know, there were about 200 problems for period April – December’2012. So many very good problems, so many famous authors, so many interesting comments, versions!.. Judging of this tournament was a real challenge! And I’m very thankful to N.Shankar Ram for accepting my invitation and for his hard work!
My sincere congratulations to all authors of awarded problems and to all participants! I really wish to see all your problems in the Award! This tournament is very special to me, as it was the first one.. Your contributions, your support have really created Julia’s Fairies! You helped me a lot and motivated me with your activity, and from my side I’d like to motivate you for a new achievements as well. Either you’re in the Award, or not, you’ve done a great job! You always have another chance to win! But I will always enjoy browsing a list of problems’2012 with all the memories, ideas and long comments… / Julia
FINAL version
of the AWARD JF-2013/I
is ready!
I’m happy to announce that Final version of the Award for Julia’sFairies-2013/I is ready! See also PDF version for download! Diplomas will be sent as well in a week! My gratitude to the judge, Juraj Brabec, for his work under the Award!
Dear Friends,
I’m very-very happy to present you a preliminary Award of The Christmas Blitz-Tourney JF-2012! It was prepared in a very short term, and I’m sorry if there’re any mistakes! A term of 10 days is given for possible remarks or objections, and after this term the results will be announced as final results (31-dec-2012). See full annoncement of the Blitz here!
Congratulations to the Prize Winners!! Thanks a lot to all of you, my dear participants!
See the Award of Julia’sFairies 1st T.T HSP-2012 by IGM Petko A. Petkov and enjoy a very nice problems! (Also, you can use PDF-version of the Award for download or print!) Congratulations to all the winners! Thanks a lot to all participants!
