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ČERNOBÍLÁ CESTA (BLACK AND WHITE ROUTE)
The most beautiful studies and problems of Mario Matouš, the best Czech chess composer of the 20th century, and bizarre chess stories of Pavel Houser connected by illustrations of Kristina Peřichová into one splendid book.
The book was published also in limited numbered edition (100 copies), bound in imitation leather with an embossed diagram, paper cover and sewn ribbon bookmark.
On 240 pages you will found 45 studies and problems, 22 stories and 36 illustrations. The book is supplemented by biographies of both of the authors and several yet non-published photos. The book was published by Prague chess society in 2014.
(limited edition in imitation leather - 999 CZK + postage)
333,- Kč (+ postage)
The book can be ordered at an e-mail address pavel.matocha@gmail.com. Please give your full name, address and phone number.
Snowdrops and Oldhands – CZECH COAL CHESS MATCH 2012
Snow for the first Snowdrop
[07.12.2012] - Indian woman grandmaster Tania Sachdev has landed in Prague, as the first one of the team of this year´s Snowdrops. The falling snowflakes welcame her. The rest of her three team-mates will arrive on Friday.
By contrast, the team of Oldhands is already complete in hotel Zámeček in Poděbrady. Grandmasters Olafsson and Romanišin arrived by plane, grandmaster Hort by train and grandmaster Uhlmann by car.
„Oldhands“ can strenghten the team spirit and combat tuning several hours earlier than „Snowdrops“, but on the other hand those will have the advantage of the non playing capitan Serg... [all]
GRAND CAFÉ ORIENT
Navara beated Harikrishna
[02.12.2012] - The best Czech chess player David Navara beated the second best player of India Pentala Harikrishna in a wonderful rapid game. Grandmasters played on a cubist chess set in the cubist coffee Grand Café Orient in the cubist house U Černé Matky Boží. Among others, the mayor of Prague 1 Oldřich Lomecký and grandmaster Vlastimil Hort were present on this cubist exhibition.
Even if David Navara didn´t open the game very exactly and he had to prove that he has the compensation for the pawn, finally he was successful. He sacrificed the exchange for two pawns and he won convincingly.
Simultaneous game of Pentala Harikrišna in Prague
Indian grandmaster in Grand Café Orient
[02.11.2012] - Do you want to play the simultaneous game with grandmaster Pentala Harikrišna? You can face your understanding of the chess game with the indian representative in a beautiful cubistic coffee Grand Café Orient in the centre of Prague on Wednesday, the 21st of November from 4 p.m.
Grandmaster Harikrišna will play against 16 adversaries. The price of a game in this simul is 700 CZK, you can registrate yourself by email on prazska.sachova@gmail.com.
Pentala Harikrišna (26 years old) is the second best player of India after the wor... [all]
CHESS TRAIN
Trip to the chess history of Vienna
[18.10.2012] - Twenty five people interested in the chess history profited from the offer of the guided
chess history tour of Vienna, focused on the places linked with the history of the chess
in 19th and early 20th century. The German group was guided by historian Michael Ehn,
the English by chess International Master and journalist Stefan Löffler.
Thanks to them, the contemporary chess players have seen the places and coffees,
where the important chess events took place. For example in 1898 the big international
tournament, supported by baron Rotschild, where all strongest players of that t... [all]
CHESS TRAIN
At full steam - grandmaster Martin Petr
[18.10.2012] - Martin Petr won the rapid tournament in Chess train with a great result: 13 points of 13 games. He
escaped the other players of one whole carriage – FM Jan Dietrich Wendt was silver with 10,5 points and
GM Ján Plachetka finished third with 9,5 points. Next three players had 8,5 points.
Last night in a hotel and final 3 rounds of rapid chess tournament in the train on the way back home,
waited the participants after a kind of cultural approach of bellyworship in Vienna (sacher and a coffee
and a huge schnitzel in famous restaurant Figl-Müller).
During the last day, the... [all]
CHESS TRAIN
The oldest participant refusing the offers of draw
[18.10.2012] - The oldest participant of the Chess train, Christoph Kohlschmidt, fighted by the same manner as the
youngest one. He was refusing the draws and finally won 5 points. „I liked the Chess train very much,
I enjoyed every single game, refusing the draws, because the result wasn´t important for me, only
the beauty of the game,“ told us the German chess player Christoph Kohlschmidt.
He was born in 1935 in Dresden and had to spend the majority of his childhood in the hospital. In the
first school year, he was present only for 11 weeks, the rest he was in a hospital, where he met the
r... [all]
CHESS TRAIN
Better the monarchy than the communists
[15.10.2012] - After the longest tournament day of five rounds, the shortest came. Monday of one single round on the way from Piešťany to Vienna. Grandmaster Martin Petr won even the tenth round and before the last day he has the comfortable 2 points lead. FM Jan Dietrich Wendt keeps the second rank with eight
points and the third one is Sven Roemling with 7 points now. Afterwards follows a group of 5 people with 6,5 points where also GM Ján Plachetka and WGM Kristýna Havlíková are.
The youngest participant of the tournament Yijan Yang managed
to win four times already and he is rising accros th... [all]