Czech Chess Championship
The Czech National Chess Championship is the chess competition held to determine the best chess player from the Czech Republic.
History[]
First national championships were held every second year, as the championships of Bohemia (within the Austro-Hungarian Empire), between 1905 and 1913, before the founding of independent Czechoslovakia. Afterwards, the independent Czech Republic's championships continued the tradition.
- 1905–13 – championships of Bohemia
- 1940–44 – championships of Bohemia and Moravia
- 1993–present – championships of the Czech Republic
List of winners[]
Championships of Bohemia[]
Year City Winner 1905 Prague Oldřich Duras 1907 Brno František Treybal 1909 Prague Oldřich Duras 1911 Plzeň Oldřich Duras 1913 Mladá Boleslav Karel Hromádka
Championships of Bohemia and Moravia[]
(in the years of World War II)
Year City Winner 1940 Rakovník Jan Foltys 1943 Prague František Zíta 1944 Brno Karel Opočenský
Championships of the Czech Republic[]
Year City Winner City Woman Champion 1993 Luhačovice Vlastimil Babula 1994 Ústí nad Labem Zbyněk Hráček 1995 Olomouc 1996 Turnov 1997 Zlín Pavel Blatný 1998 Zlín Sergei Movsesian 1999 Lázně Bohdaneč Marek Vokáč 2000 Opava Pavel Blatný 2001 Kunžak 2002 Ostrava 2003 Luhačovice 2004 Karlovy Vary David Navara 2005 Karlovy Vary David Navara 2006 Brno Viktor Láznička 2007 Prague 2008 Havlíčkův Brod Vlastimil Babula 2009 Děčín Pavel Šimáček 2010 Ostrava David Navara[1] 2011 Pardubice Jiří Štoček[2] 2012 David Navara 2013 Ledec nad Sazavou David Navara[3] 2014 Ostrava David Navara[4] 2015 Havlíčkův Brod David Navara[5] 2016 Ostrava Vojtěch Plát 2017 Ostrava David Navara 2018 Ostrava 2019 Ostrava David Navara 2020 Frydek Mistek
Multiple winners[]
The Czech Chess Union and Czech chess press count all Czech and Czechoslovak titles together, with the resulting ranking as follows:
- 10 titles: David Navara (2004–2019)
- 7 titles: Luděk Pachman (1946–1966)
- 6 titles: Vlastimil Hort (1969–1977)
- 5 titles: Ľubomír Ftáčnik (1981–1989)
- 3 titles: Oldřich Duras (1905–1911), Miroslav Filip (1950–1954), Vlastimil Jansa (1964–1984), Karel Opočenský (1927–1938), Jan Smejkal (1973–1986)
Women[]
Year City Winner 1993 Tišnov Petra Krupková 1994 Nymburk Lenka Ptáčníková 1994 Chrudim 1995 Olomouc 1996 Ústí nad Labem Lenka Ptáčníková 1997 Ostrava 1998 Klatovy 1999 Klatovy 2001 Třinec Olga Sikorová 2002 Frymburk Olga Sikorová 2003 Luhačovice Kateřina Čedíková 2004 Karlovy Vary Olga Sikorová 2008 Havlíčkův Brod Kateřina Němcová 2009 Děčín Kateřina Čedíková[6] 2010 Ostrava Kateřina Němcová 2011 Pardubice [2] 2012 2013 Ledec nad Sazavou 2014 Ostrava Olga Sikorová[4] 2015 Havličkův Brod [5] 2016 Ostrava Joanna Worek 2017 Ostrava 2018 České Budějovice Olga Sikorová 2019 Prague
References[]
- ^ "Navara wins Czech Championship with 8.5/9 points". ChessBase. 2010-05-11. Retrieved 14 October 2015.
- ^ a b "Czech Republic Individual Chess Championships". Chessdom. 2011-05-11. Retrieved 2015-05-18.
- ^ David Navara vítězem MČR mužů 2013 Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine (in Czech) Czech Chess Federation. Retrieved 14 October 2015
- ^ a b "Newsletter 155" (PDF). European Chess Union. 2014-05-07. Retrieved 2015-05-18.
- ^ a b "GM David Navara and WIM Tereza Olsarova are 2015 Czech champions". Chessdom. 2015-05-24. Retrieved 14 October 2015.
- ^ "Mistrovství České republiky žen 2009" (in Czech). Czech Chess Federation. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-05-18.
Bibliography[]
Modr, Břetislav; Veselý, Jiří. 100 let organizovaného šachu v českých zemích. Příbram, 2005. ISBN 80-86595-14-5.
See also[]
Categories:
- Chess national championships
- Women's chess national championships
- Chess in the Czech Republic
- National championships in the Czech Republic