Navara beats Short 7-3 in CEZ Trophy
9/3/2007 – The CEZ Chess Trophy 2007, August 30 to Sept 2nd, had two ten-game rapid chess matches: former world championship challenger Nigel Short took on top Czech grandmaster David Navara; and chess legend Jan Timman faced the top female Czech player Jana Jackova. Six games were in regular chess, four in Fischer Random Chess (with shuffled pieces). Illustrated report.
CEZ Chess Trophy 2007:
Navara beats Short, Timman outplayed Jackova
Report by Pavel Matocha
The CEZ Chess Trophy 2007, which took place from August 30 to September 2nd, was organised in Prague (Czech Republic) by civic association Prague Chess Society. It took place in the beautiful Best Western Kampa Hotel, with four players competing in the ten games matches (six rapid games and four Fischer random).
The best Czech player, GM David Navara, played against British GM Nigel Short, former world championship challenger. At the same time the best Czech woman player, IM Jana Jackova, played against Dutch chess legend GM Jan Timman. In the final standings David Navara beat Nigel Short 7.0–3.0, and Jan Timman defeated Jana Jackova 7.5–2.5. In the normal rapid chess games the scores were as follows:
The CEZ Chess Trophy finished on Sunday with a simultaneous exhibition by Nigel Short against 30 opponents (most of them will be top managers from Czech republic).
The press conference before the CEZ Chess Trophy 2007. From the left: Pavel
Matocha (organiser), IM Jana Jackova, GM Jan Timman, IM Pavel Votruba (arbiter),
GM Nigel Short and GM David Navara.
The setup: Jackova vs Timman and Navara vs Short on the stage in Prague
The audience could follow the games on giant plasma screens
Czech GM Lubos Kavalek, now based in USA, comments for the audience
IM Jana Jackova, Czech Republic, vs GM Jan Timman, Netherlands
Czech GM David Navara, 22, rated 2656 and ranked as number 54 in the world.
In the April 2007 FIDE rankigs Navara was 2720 and the world's number 14. He
shed most of his points in league games.
Lubos Kavalek discusses the event with winners Jan Timman and David Navara
Downloading and replaying the gamesDue mainly to the specially castling rules Fischer Random Chess games recorded in PGN cannot be easily replayed with regular chess programs or applications. However Fritz 10 can handle these files, in PGN or ChessBase formats. ChessBase 9 or ChessBase Light can also do the same, using the games in ChessBase format.
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How about a nice game of Chess960?Note that with Fritz 10 you can also play Fischer Random Chess against the or on the Playchess server. With ChessBase Light you can do the latter. To do this you should enter the special rooms reserved for Fischer Random (also known as Chess960). You can go there to watch the broadcasts of the games being played in big events, or you can play games against other users yourself. You can also stage tournaments, for humans or for chess engines which know the game. |
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