Here is the new issue of Fairings (No.24 - June 2012) by Chris Feather where are included new 12 interesting problems. 

(18.06.2012) This is the second part with recently honored chess compositions by bulgarian composers.

The Macedonian Problemist announces informal tourneys for 2012 in the following sections:

   This is the second part of KoBulChess Originals May 2012. Here are helpmates and fairy problems. Wellcome to all composers who took a part in May 2012 originals: Evgeniy Permyakov, Alberto Armeni, Zivko Janevski, Valerio Agostini, Nikolay Dimitrov, Josef Holubec, Antonio Garofalo, Fabio Magini, Dmitri Turevski, Themis Argirakopoulos, Pierre Tritten, Krassimir Gandev, S.K. Balasubramanian, Chris Feather and Paul Raican. I thank you all!

   The Italian Problemist Association (API) organize the 3rd Mini-Tour called SAVANA-SAFARI. To the tourney will be admitted every kind of problems among 2-6 moves. Every work will have to contain one or more fairy pieces among the following, which are characteristic animals of the African savannah:

  The KoBulChess Originals for May 2012 are here! In Part 1 are included twomovers, threemovers and selfmates. Very soon will be published Part 2 with helpmates and fairy problems. Enjoy and don't forget to comment - the authors, judges and editor are interested to know your opinion about the problems!   

Each composer may participate with an unlimited number of problems, but only one of his/her entries per round will score points. Ten problems will be ranked in four rounds and will be awarded points as follows:

   The site Julia’s Fairies announces its 1st  Thematic Tourney JULIA’S FAIRIES - HSP 2012.

   Theme: Help-self problems (HSP) of any possible types: Help-self mates (HS#), HS=, HS==, HR#, HR=, etc. in any number of moves with battery-play with fairy elements.

The organizing board of Tata Steel Chess Tournament announces an international composing tourney for endgame studies. No set theme.

   The website for chess composition KoBulChess announces its regular Informal tourneys for composing of chess problems in the following sections: twomovers, threemovers, helpmates, selfmates and fairy problems.

This is collection of the first five issues of "Fairings" by Chris Feather. In these articles you will find an interesting examples of different types fairy pieces and conditions.

  I was very pleased to receive a total of 74 problems by 17 authors from 11 countries for the 1^st KoBulChess TT 2012. The level of the tourney is high with so many entries with original and interesting thematic complexes!

The 8^th European Chess Solving Championship starts today. About 100 participants are expected to join the event in Kyiv (Ukraine).

Yochanan Afek present his study which was introduced for solving in the 50th birthday party of Karel van Delft in Apeldoorn 2006 and was dedicated to him as a jubilee gift. It was published online in the SBSA messages (a newsletter of Apeldoorn chess that ceased to appear ever since) in 2006.

   After series of modifications and updates the new version (3.16) of the solving program for chess composition WinChloe is available.