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David Navara wins Czech National Championship
9/1/2020 – The Czech Republic is in the process of returning to normality after the corona crisis. Last week the Czech National Championships were held as over-the-board tournaments in Pilsen, without face masks nor Plexiglas walls. Rating favourite David Navara won the 9-round event after collecting 7½ points. | Photos: Official site
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Navara wins the national title for a tenth time
The Czech National Championship 2020 was held in Pilsen as a 9-round Swiss open tournament. Nearly 80 players took part, including numerous titleholders and nine grandmasters. Rating favourite was of course Czech Republic’s number one David Navara, although it would not have been a major surprise if any of the remaining grandmasters would have won the event.
Navara started with three wins, and gave up his first half point against Zbynk Hracek in round four. In the course of the tournament, Viktor Laznicka was Navara’s closest follower throughout. However, Laznicka drew one of his games in the first rounds and had to fight his way back to the top of the table. He succeeded in doing so by scoring four wins in a row.
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Viktor Laznicka (right)
In the sixth round, the highest-rated participants faced each other. The match between Navara and Laznicka ended in a draw. Beneficiary of the point split was Jiri Stocek, who was able to draw level with the two leaders with a victory.
In round 7, Laznicka and Stocek also shared the point, while Navara defeated Peter Michalik.
David Navara vs. Peter Michalik
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31...Bd4 32.Rd3 Rg8 33.Rg3+ Kf8 34.Rxg8+ Kxg8 35.Ng4 1–0
Navara took the sole leader and never gave it up. In round eight, he drew against Stocek. But Laznicka could not take advantage of this result, as he also split the point with Zbynek Hracek.
In the last round, Navara scored a full point against Karel Malinowsky, which secured him the championship. David Navara thus gained his tenth national championship title.
[Addendum: In the last round, Malinowsky had brought a notebook into the tournament hall, which was not allowed. The tournament arbiter asked him to either leave it with him or to take it back to the checkroom. Malinowsky refused and in the end left the tournament hall in protest, without playing his game.]
Final standings (top 20)
| Rk. | Name | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | ||
| 1 |
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GM | Navara David | 2719 | 7,5 | 0,0 |
| 2 |
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GM | Láznička Viktor | 2638 | 7,0 | 0,0 |
| 3 |
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GM | Hráček Zbyněk | 2563 | 6,5 | 0,0 |
| 4 |
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GM | Štoček Jiří | 2595 | 6,5 | 0,0 |
| 5 |
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GM | Nguyen Thai Dai Van | 2569 | 6,5 | 0,0 |
| 6 |
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IM | Orság Milan | 2300 | 6,5 | 0,0 |
| 7 |
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FM | Šorm Daniel | 2343 | 6,5 | 0,0 |
| 8 |
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IM | Malinovský Karel | 2474 | 6,0 | 0,0 |
| 9 |
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FM | Kožúšek Daniel | 2307 | 6,0 | 0,0 |
| 10 |
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FM | Havelka Josef | 2367 | 6,0 | 0,0 |
| 11 |
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FM | Říha Vojtěch | 2270 | 6,0 | 0,0 |
| 12 |
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GM | Polák Tomáš | 2563 | 5,5 | 0,0 |
| 13 |
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GM | Babula Vlastimil | 2571 | 5,5 | 0,0 |
| 14 |
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FM | Finěk Václav | 2344 | 5,5 | 0,0 |
| 15 |
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FM | Rabatin Jakub | 2291 | 5,5 | 0,0 |
| 16 |
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FM | Hollan Martin | 2346 | 5,5 | 0,0 |
| 17 |
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FM | Miča Marek | 2315 | 5,5 | 0,0 |
| 18 |
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FM | Červený Petr | 2340 | 5,5 | 0,0 |
| 19 |
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FM | Stalmach Richard | 2273 | 5,5 | 0,0 |
| 20 |
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FM | Serrano Salvador Eduardo | 2299 | 5,5 | 0,0 |
All available games
Links
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Re Yasser Seirawan: Thank you very much!
Re Bill Alg (and others): And what about the Dominican Republic? Countries like France or The Netherlands have been there for centuries, whereas Czech Republic appeared on the map after the peaceful split of Czechoslovakia at the very beginning of 1993. (Of course my country has a rich and colourful history, but in its current form it exists only since 1993.)
Czech Republic has been the country's official name since 1993, it is the most often used name and it had been the country's only correct name until recently. The namen "Czechia" has been introduced as a shorter alternative. (It might be used in many sport events for this reason.) The shorter name might prevail within decades, who knows. But for the time being, "Czech Republic" is both more common and more adequate in a written text.
David Navara, Czech Republic
Re Bill Alg (and others): And what about the Dominican Republic? Countries like France or The Netherlands have been there for centuries, whereas Czech Republic appeared on the map after the peaceful split of Czechoslovakia at the very beginning of 1993. (Of course my country has a rich and colourful history, but in its current form it exists only since 1993.)
Czech Republic has been the country's official name since 1993, it is the most often used name and it had been the country's only correct name until recently. The namen "Czechia" has been introduced as a shorter alternative. (It might be used in many sport events for this reason.) The shorter name might prevail within decades, who knows. But for the time being, "Czech Republic" is both more common and more adequate in a written text.
David Navara, Czech Republic
@nirvana1963 But in that case, if Chessbase want to be consistent, they should start using the long name for other countries as well: French Republic, Federal Republic of Germany, Kingdom of the Netherlands, and so on.
Congrats David!
Ten national championships. Very impressive!
Yasser
Ten national championships. Very impressive!
Yasser
@JerryGarcia Accordig to The United Nations Terminology Database the Czech Republic's official formal and short names are Czech Republic and Czechia,so both names are correct.
@JerryGarcia I did not know that, so I did some research, but it turns out that they were not wrong in the article. That is still the official long name.
It appears that that is just a nickname developed for used by The United Nations. In Czech, it still appears to be the Czech Republic officially. It is similar for China to "The People’s Republic of China" is the long-form name, while China is its short-form name; or "The United States of America" versus the US.
The Czech Republic's official formal and short names at the United Nations are Česká republika and Česko in Czech, and the Czech Republic and Czechia in English
It appears that that is just a nickname developed for used by The United Nations. In Czech, it still appears to be the Czech Republic officially. It is similar for China to "The People’s Republic of China" is the long-form name, while China is its short-form name; or "The United States of America" versus the US.
The Czech Republic's official formal and short names at the United Nations are Česká republika and Česko in Czech, and the Czech Republic and Czechia in English
The name of the country is Czechia, not Czech Republic. It has been that way for a while now....
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