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JF Original Problems | November, 2020(2) The judge of JF-2020/II: Hans Gruber. The judge of Retro & PG problems 2019-2020: Vlaicu Crișan.  Coming soon: nobody in the waiting list… (24.11) No.1561 (h#2 ; HurdleColourChanging pieces, Lion, Rook-Lion, Rose-Lion) Michal Dragoun (Czehia). The problem is not computer-tested – I found firstly geometrical pattern and then I discovered, » celý článok »

Going Forward to Light and Order! by Shankar Ram Our chess problem field is not gaining as many new followers as it should. There is a competition for ways to spend leisure time: various other board and video games – most of them available online, as well as the old ways like music, » celý článok »

(18.11.2020) Nice fairy tanagra by Sergej Smotrov with excellent using of KoBul Kings and neutral Eagle for creating of 4 Chameleon Echo Ideal mates. » celý článok »

The WFCC delegates have now approved the report of the qualifications committee regarding new composing, solving and judging titles. Congratulations to all title holders! The relevant pages have been updated. » celý článok »

JF Original Problems | November, 2020 The judge of JF-2020/II: Hans Gruber. The judge of Retro & PG problems 2019-2020: Vlaicu Crișan.  Coming soon: János Csák & Gábor Tar (Hungary) (02.11) No.1554 (hs#4) Vitaly Medintsev (Russia). ODT model mates and something more to discover… Animated diagrams use Py2Web by Dmitri Turevski and WinChloe‘s graphics, Christian Poisson » celý článok »

Fairy Classification project: step 1 Our Fairy Classification project has started, motivated by the great enthusiasm and good will of Chris Tylor and Shankar Ram! Now our small group is moving from the Preliminary questions  to the next steps. The main ideas of this post are : to inform everybody what we currently do; to » celý článok »

We updated the list of album points to include the results of the so far finalised sections of the 2016-18 album. The qualifications committee will prepare a report of the composing, solving and judging titles and submit it to the delegates for their approval. Stay tuned for further information. » celý článok »

JF Original Problems | October, 2020 (2) The judge of JF-2020/II: Hans Gruber. The judge of Retro & PG problems 2019-2020: Vlaicu Crișan.  Coming soon: nobody in the waiting list (27.10) No.1551 (ser-s#21; Circe Rex Inclusiv) Dirk Borst (Netherlands). I’ve got used to see Dirk’s name on JF while he was a judge of Retro&PG problems » celý článok »

Juan EGEA   PDF   Problemas, 1951White Bd8 Re6 Sa4 Pc4 Pd3 Se3 Pf2 Kc1 Rd1 Black Sc8 Pg7 Bh6 Ph5 Pb4 Kd4 » celý článok »

In chess composition there is the Fairy Chess, where we see other conditions, others pieces, other chessboards.  For the question "which fairy elements are mostly used?", a statistic comes to our help, based on the about 785,000 problems that are contained in the database WinChloe by the French Christian Poisson.  The statistic » celý článok »