Responses, Protest

03.08.2012 Sergiy Didukh

The   award   of   the  Fritz-100  surprised  me  a  lot. I think it's clear to everyone that "судил дебил"!  Sergiy Didukh
(Emil Vlasak: The Russian sentence means “judged from an arsehole”).

In the following correspondence Mr. Didukh offered to show moments the judge did not see and did not understand, but finally he was unable to give any.
He only repeated subjective arguments supporting his view his study (“only” 1st honorable mention) is the best one in the tourney.
The WFCC was asked to to take a clear stand.

27.08.2012 Jaroslav Pospisil
Dear Mr. Polasek!

The study Nr. 64 Bazlov Kd5/Ke5 is insoluble according to Basic Chess Rules (articles 5.2e and 9.3.b).
After 1.Ne5 Qg2+!  2.Kc5 Kxa6  3.Rb8 Qb7!  4.Rxb7 Kxb7  we have the endgame Kc5 Ne5 Ne7 - Kb7 Pd4 which needs more than 50 moves (after 1.Nd3 White needs 61 moves to reach mate).
(EV I cut-off here some technical details).
Because the tournament was organized by the Chess Federation of the Czech Republic the Articles should be respected.
The Permanent  Commission of FIDE (PCCC) no longer exists being excommunicated from FIDE so the Codex (to which you are referring to in the past) lost the force.

After the clumsy Didukh case the Pospisil's one is rather ridiculous. Of course, the Basic Chess Rules don't also mention a lot of principal terms as anticipation, cook, dual, etc.
So without Codex we cannot organize any composition tournament.
By the way, the Fritz 100MT is organized not only by the Chess Federation of the Czech Republic but also by Association of Czech Problemists.

11.09.2012 Amatzia Avni

We apologize to Mr. Avni for misprinting his first name.
The problem arose at the moment the entry was received and the copy + paste method delivered it in all materials.
I corrected all places where possible.

11.09.2012 Martin Minski

This is an excellent Award in superior presentation and with understandable and detailed comments.
I find that the study of Y. Bazlov is the deserving 1st Prize.
Many thanks to you and to Jaroslav for your excellent organization!

11.09.2012  Anatoly  Skripnik

See attachment (Bazlov 3-rd priz Kudesnik 2009) so study Bazlov in Fritz-100 (4-th hm) I think same and this study must be delite from award. 

[Event "3rd Prize, Kudesnik 2009-1010"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Bazlov=Y"]
[Black "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "8/q1p5/pk6/4N3/BK1N4/8/8/8 w - - 0 1"]
[PlyCount "27"]
[SourceDate "2005.01.24"]

1. Nd7+ Kb7 2. Nc5+ Kb6 3. Bc6 $1 a5+ 4. Kc4 a4 5. Nxa4+ Ka6 6. Nc5+ Kb6 7.
Nd7+ Ka6 8. Kd3 Ka5 9. Kc3 Ka6 (9... Qa6 10. Nb3#) 10. Kc4 Ka5 11. Nb3+ Ka6 12.
Nbc5+ Ka5 13. Bb5 $1 Qa8 14. Nb3# 1-0

The judge rejects this protest.
The quoted study from Kudesnik tournament is nice with impressive triangulating, but it has only the same material with 4th hm; final mate here is completely different and original.

12.08.2012 Emil Melnichenko

Congratulations to You and Jaroslav Polasek on an excellently organized and managed tourney. 
I like the use of Harry Potter characters to anonymize the participants, the publicizing of individual comments and the website exclusively prepared for the competition. 
Hopefully, future organizers and judges will learn from Your superlative example. 

Final award

Main Section

Fritz motives development

1 EUR is about 25 CZK

We have not got any serious protest about the Preliminary award.
So the Preliminary award turns unchanged into the Final one.
Československý šach Magazine will print this information in 11/2012.

The full Final Award (PFD, English).
http://www.sach.cz/2012/09/fritz100mt.pgn  PGN download
http://www.sach.cz/2012/09/fritz100mt.htm  replay 

Diary 3

Zpráva o turnaji na webu Českého šachového svazu /The tournament report on Chess Federation of the Czech Republic web.

Money Prizes transferred
Afek, Avni, Keith, Minski, Salai (through Dragoun), Rusz, Eilazjan.

Yochanan Afek published small report about the tournament  http://www.afekchess.com/recent-news 

Bazlov code 3788834650