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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.
ČEZ CHESS TROPHY 2010
President and prime minister visited chess event
[12.05.2010] - The world's best chess player Judit Polgar won against the best Czech chess player David Navara in the eight-game rapid chess match 6 - 2, securing the winning each day of the tournament. She got in lead on Thursday 22 April 2010 with an advantage 2,5 – 0,5. On Friday 23 April she had already secure for herself the victory of the tournament, winning 2 -1. And on Saturday 24 April she increased her score, winning 1,5 – 0,5, the overall score changed to 6 – 2.
Nevertheless the course of the games was not at all just one way traffic. The Czech grandmaster openings were very well-played... [all]
ČEZ CHESS TROPHY 2010
Judit Polgar wins 6:2
[25.04.2010] - The world's best chess player Judit Polgar won against the best Czech chess player David Navara in the eight-game rapid chess match 6 - 2, securing the winning each day of the tournament. She got in lead on Thursday 22 April 2010 with an advantage 2,5 – 0,5. On Friday 23 April she had already secure for herself the victory of the tournament, winning 2 -1. And on Saturday 24 April she increased her score, winning 1,5 – 0,5, the overall score changed to 6 – 2.
Nevertheless the course of the games was not at all just one way traffic. The Czech grandmaster openings were very well-playe... [all]
ČEZ CHESS TROPHY 2010
Judit Polgar has decided the result in the 5-th game already
[24.04.2010] - The best woman chess player in the world has already won over the best Czech chess player during the second day of the match. The trophy made by a sculptor Ludek Vondra will find its new home in Hungary. The only question left is the overall score.
At the 4-th game of the match Judit Polgar had the white pieces. However David Navara quickly and easily manage to equalize the position and towards the endgame he manage to win a pawn. However at the end he exceeded his time. At the 5-th game the Hungarian player played better game and she had decided the destiny of the match. At 6-t... [all]
ČEZ CHESS TROPHY 2010
Prime minister Fischer opens match Navara-Polgar
[23.04.2010] - The prime minister Jan Fischer opened by move e4 a chess match of the best Czech chessplayer David Navara against Judit Polgar. The head of the Czech government also launched the book 'Bobby Fisher Against the Czech Grandmasters', which has been published this week by the Prague Chess Society.
In the first game the Czech player played with white pieces and the Spanish exchange variation ended with a draw. The second game too was of a Spanish influence. In the middle of the game Judit Polgar intuitively sacrificed a figure and won beautifully. David Navara opened the third game by 1.... [all]
ČEZ CHESS TROPHY 2010
The world's most famous woman chessplayer arrived to Prague
[21.04.2010] - The world's most famous and the best woman chess player Judita Polgar arrived together with her husband Gusztáv Font to Prague to play a match with the Czech best chess player David Navara and a simul against 25 players. Despite the complications caused by volcanic ash, which for instance forced the match commentator Lubomir Kavalek to complete the last bit of his journey from Washington to Prague by train, the plane with Judit Polgar took off from Budapest and safely landed in Prague.
Judit Polgar will compete against the grandmaster Navara from Thursday 22 April to Saturday 24 A... [all]
ČEZ CHESS TROPHY 2010
The world's most famous female chessplayer is coming to Prague
[11.03.2010] - The most famous and the world's best female chessplayer Judit Polgar is coming to Prague at the end of April to play a match with the best Czech chess player David Navara and also to play simul against businessmen, artists and sportsmen.
Judit Polgar has been for over ten years by far the strongest player among females and she is the only woman in the history of chess ever to enter the Top Ten world's chart (no other female ranks among the first hundred). She is the only female who equally competed with the best male chess players, she even managed to beat one of the best chess p... [all]
Lassies and Old Timers – Czech Coal Chess Match 2009
Much ambitions, little ammunition and yet winning
[15.12.2009] - Three-times a competitor for the world champion title, the 78 years old Viktor Kortchnoi, made himself happy in the last round of the Snowdrops versus Old-hands match, when he managed, despite of an apparently worse end-game, to beat the tournament best female player and currently the world second best female player, the twenty two years old Humpy Koneru. Nevertheless the Indian woman grandmaster gained 5,5 points out of 8 games and she reached an extraordinary rating performance of over 2700 ELO. Not even the wining of Viktor Lvovich Kortchnoi saved the legendary players, who were beaten ... [all]