{"id":16732,"date":"2020-09-01T21:25:34","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T21:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1090.fide.com\/?p=16732"},"modified":"2023-10-30T06:48:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T06:48:22","slug":"david-navara-wins-czech-chess-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/david-navara-wins-czech-chess-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"David Navara wins Czech Chess Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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David Navara<\/strong>\u00a0won his tenth title of the Czech chess champion at the championship held in Pilsen. The highest-parted participant lived up to his status of favorite and conceded his opponents only three draws in nine rounds. The silver came to\u00a0Viktor L\u00e1zni\u010dka<\/strong>, the second-ranked Czech player; another favorite \u00a0Zbyn\u011bk Hr\u00e1\u010dek<\/strong>\u00a0took bronze.<\/p>

“I am glad that I managed to win the tournament. Maybe I played a little better than the others, but not by much, more like the first among equals,” the champion humbly said. Navara won his first title of Czech champion back in 2004 when he was only 19 years old.<\/p>

Navara went through a difficult moment in Round 8 when he had to defend an inferior position against Ji\u0159\u00ed \u0160to\u010dek, the winner of last year’s Czech Open, but he managed to neutralize the opponent’s pressure. It was one of Navarre’s three draws for the entire tournament \u2013 he also slit points with the two other medalists. In Round 4 David had an almost six-hour battle with Zbyn\u011bk Hr\u00e1\u010dek, his predecessor in the position of Czech number one and former 20th chess player in the world; in Round 6 he drew with the Czech number two Viktor L\u00e1zni\u010dka.<\/p>

Before the last round, Navara was a half-point ahead of four players and by defeating\u00a0Karel Malinovsky<\/strong>\u00a0he secured the title. Out of four pursuers, only L\u00e1zni\u010dka scored a victory and took silver. Zbyn\u011bk Hr\u00e1\u010dek tied for third place with several players but was awarded bronze thanks to better tiebreaks.<\/p>

A young prodigy\u00a0V\u00e1clav Fin\u011bk<\/strong>\u00a0turned in a solid performance and finished \u00a014th, leaving behind \u00a0GMs Peter Michal\u00edk or Pavel \u0160im\u00e1\u010dek.<\/p>

Final standings<\/strong>:<\/p>

1. David Navara (2719) \u2013 7\u00bd
2. Viktor L\u00e1zni\u010dka (2638) \u2013 7
3. Zbyn\u011bk Hr\u00e1\u010dek (2563) \u2013 6\u00bd
4. Ji\u0159\u00ed \u0160to\u010dek (2595) \u2013 6\u00bd
5. Thai Dai Van Nguyen (2569) \u2013 6\u00bd
6. Milan Ors\u00e1g (2300) \u2013 6\u00bd
7. Daniel \u0160orm (2343) \u2013 6\u00bd
8. Karel Malinovsk\u00fd (2474) \u2013 6
9. Daniel Ko\u017e\u00fa\u0161ek (2307)\u00a0\u2013 6
10. Josef Havelka (2367) \u2013 6<\/p>

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David Navara\u00a0won his tenth title of the Czech chess champion at the championship held in Pilsen. The highest-parted participant lived up to his status of favorite and conceded his opponents only three draws in nine rounds. The silver came to\u00a0Viktor L\u00e1zni\u010dka, the second-ranked Czech player; another favorite \u00a0Zbyn\u011bk Hr\u00e1\u010dek\u00a0took bronze. “I am glad that I managed to win the tournament. Maybe I played a little better than the others, but not by much, more like the first among equals,” the champion humbly said. Navara won his first title of Czech champion back in 2004 when he was only 19 years old. Navara went through a difficult moment in Round 8 when he had to defend an inferior position against Ji\u0159\u00ed \u0160to\u010dek, the winner of last year’s Czech Open, but he managed to neutralize the opponent’s pressure. It was one of Navarre’s three draws for the entire tournament \u2013 he also slit points with the two other medalists. In Round 4 David had an almost six-hour battle with Zbyn\u011bk Hr\u00e1\u010dek, his predecessor in the position of Czech number one and former 20th chess player in the world; in Round 6 he drew with the Czech number two Viktor L\u00e1zni\u010dka. Before the last round, Navara was a half-point ahead of four players and by defeating\u00a0Karel Malinovsky\u00a0he secured the title. Out of four pursuers, only L\u00e1zni\u010dka scored a victory and took silver. Zbyn\u011bk Hr\u00e1\u010dek tied for third place with several players but was awarded bronze thanks to better tiebreaks. A young prodigy\u00a0V\u00e1clav Fin\u011bk\u00a0turned in a solid performance and finished \u00a014th, leaving behind \u00a0GMs Peter Michal\u00edk or Pavel \u0160im\u00e1\u010dek. Final standings: 1. David Navara (2719) \u2013 7\u00bd2. Viktor L\u00e1zni\u010dka (2638) \u2013 73. Zbyn\u011bk Hr\u00e1\u010dek (2563) \u2013 6\u00bd4. Ji\u0159\u00ed \u0160to\u010dek (2595) \u2013 6\u00bd5. Thai Dai Van Nguyen (2569) \u2013 6\u00bd6. Milan Ors\u00e1g (2300) \u2013 6\u00bd7. Daniel \u0160orm (2343) \u2013 6\u00bd8. Karel Malinovsk\u00fd (2474) \u2013 69. Daniel Ko\u017e\u00fa\u0161ek (2307)\u00a0\u2013 610. Josef Havelka (2367) \u2013 6 Text and photo:\u00a0https:\/\/www.chess.cz\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[222,49],"regular":[],"sticky-post":[],"class_list":["post-16732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chess-news","tag-czechrepublic","tag-national-championships"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16732"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16737,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16732\/revisions\/16737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16732"},{"taxonomy":"regular","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regular?post=16732"},{"taxonomy":"sticky-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sticky-post?post=16732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}