{"id":9135,"date":"2023-05-18T13:19:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T13:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1090.fide.com\/?p=9135"},"modified":"2023-10-25T11:07:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T11:07:16","slug":"czech-championship-2023-david-navara-and-julia-movsesian-win-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/czech-championship-2023-david-navara-and-julia-movsesian-win-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"Czech Championship 2023: David Navara and Julia Movsesian win titles"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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David Navara and Julia Movsesian are the new chess champions of the Czech Republic.<\/p>

The Open and Women\u2019s Czech championships organized by the Sv\u011btl\u00e1 nad S\u00e1zavou Chess Club and \u0160achov\u00fd svaz \u010cesk\u00e9 republiky (Czech Chess Federation) took place from May 9-17 in the conference hall of the Skalsk\u00fd Dv\u016fr hotel in L\u00edsk. The events were held concurrently but in different formats. The open competition was a 10-player round-robin, while the women\u2019s championship was a knock-out tournament with a single preliminary round followed by the quarterfinals, semifinals and final.<\/p>

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GM\u00a0David Navara<\/strong>\u00a0turned in a dominant performance in the open event and claimed his twelfth national title with a round to spare. The current Czech number one scored an impressive 7.5\/9 and became the only unbeaten player in the competition.<\/p>

The fight for the silver was much closer, with the second-youngest participant, IM\u00a0Tom\u00e1\u0161 Kraus<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0 GM\u00a0Vlastimil Babula<\/strong>, coming into the final round tied for the second position. Kraus pulled out a crucial victory over the 2021 champion Vojt\u011bch Pl\u00e1t and secured second place, as Babula managed only a draw against Navara with the black pieces and had to settle for bronze. \u00a0<\/p>

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

1<\/p><\/td>

GM<\/p><\/td>

Navara, David<\/p><\/td>

2678<\/p><\/td>

7\u00bd<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

2<\/p><\/td>

IM<\/p><\/td>

Kraus, Tom\u00e1\u0161<\/p><\/td>

2473<\/p><\/td>

6<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

3<\/p><\/td>

GM<\/p><\/td>

Babula, Vlastimil<\/p><\/td>

2533<\/p><\/td>

5\u00bd<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

4<\/p><\/td>

GM<\/p><\/td>

Krej\u010d\u00ed, Jan<\/p><\/td>

2517<\/p><\/td>

5<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

5<\/p><\/td>

GM<\/p><\/td>

\u0160to\u010dek, Ji\u0159\u00ed<\/p><\/td>

2525<\/p><\/td>

5<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

6<\/p><\/td>

GM<\/p><\/td>

\u0160im\u00e1\u010dek, Pavel<\/p><\/td>

2466<\/p><\/td>

3\u00bd<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

7<\/p><\/td>

IM<\/p><\/td>

Zwardo\u0144, Vojt\u011bch<\/p><\/td>

2494<\/p><\/td>

3\u00bd<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

8<\/p><\/td>

GM<\/p><\/td>

Petr, Martin<\/p><\/td>

2478<\/p><\/td>

3\u00bd<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

9<\/p><\/td>

FM<\/p><\/td>

Fin\u011bk, V\u00e1clav<\/p><\/td>

2410<\/p><\/td>

3<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

10<\/p><\/td>

GM<\/p><\/td>

Pl\u00e1t, Vojt\u011bch<\/p><\/td>

2535<\/p><\/td>

2\u00bd<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>


In the women\u2019s championship, the rating favourites, WGMs\u00a0Julia Movsesian\u00a0<\/strong>(pictured below) and\u00a0Karol\u00edna Pilsov\u00e1<\/strong>, made it all the way to the final, which the former convincingly won by a score of 2-0. The last-year champion WIM\u00a0Nata\u0161a Richterov\u00e1<\/strong>\u00a0prevailed over WGM\u00a0Olga Sikorov\u00e1<\/strong>\u00a0in the match for bronze.<\/p>

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The complete results of the open and women’s championships can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>

Official website:\u00a0chess.cz\/<\/a><\/p>

Photos: Official website<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Navara and Julia Movsesian are the new chess champions of the Czech Republic. The Open and Women\u2019s Czech championships organized by the Sv\u011btl\u00e1 nad S\u00e1zavou Chess Club and \u0160achov\u00fd svaz \u010cesk\u00e9 republiky (Czech Chess Federation) took place from May 9-17 in the conference hall of the Skalsk\u00fd Dv\u016fr hotel in L\u00edsk. The events were held concurrently but in different formats. The open competition was a 10-player round-robin, while the women\u2019s championship was a knock-out tournament with a single preliminary round followed by the quarterfinals, semifinals and final. GM\u00a0David Navara\u00a0turned in a dominant performance in the open event and claimed his twelfth national title with a round to spare. The current Czech number one scored an impressive 7.5\/9 and became the only unbeaten player in the competition. The fight for the silver was much closer, with the second-youngest participant, IM\u00a0Tom\u00e1\u0161 Kraus\u00a0and\u00a0 GM\u00a0Vlastimil Babula, coming into the final round tied for the second position. Kraus pulled out a crucial victory over the 2021 champion Vojt\u011bch Pl\u00e1t and secured second place, as Babula managed only a draw against Navara with the black pieces and had to settle for bronze. \u00a0 Final standings Open: 1 GM Navara, David 2678 7\u00bd 2 IM Kraus, Tom\u00e1\u0161 2473 6 3 GM Babula, Vlastimil 2533 5\u00bd 4 GM Krej\u010d\u00ed, Jan 2517 5 5 GM \u0160to\u010dek, Ji\u0159\u00ed 2525 5 6 GM \u0160im\u00e1\u010dek, Pavel 2466 3\u00bd 7 IM Zwardo\u0144, Vojt\u011bch 2494 3\u00bd 8 GM Petr, Martin 2478 3\u00bd 9 FM Fin\u011bk, V\u00e1clav 2410 3 10 GM Pl\u00e1t, Vojt\u011bch 2535 2\u00bd In the women\u2019s championship, the rating favourites, WGMs\u00a0Julia Movsesian\u00a0(pictured below) and\u00a0Karol\u00edna Pilsov\u00e1, made it all the way to the final, which the former convincingly won by a score of 2-0. The last-year champion WIM\u00a0Nata\u0161a Richterov\u00e1\u00a0prevailed over WGM\u00a0Olga Sikorov\u00e1\u00a0in the match for bronze. The complete results of the open and women’s championships can be found\u00a0here. Official website:\u00a0chess.cz\/ Photos: Official website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9137,"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-9135","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\/9135","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=9135"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9140,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9135\/revisions\/9140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9135"},{"taxonomy":"regular","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regular?post=9135"},{"taxonomy":"sticky-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sticky-post?post=9135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}