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Pavel Matocha
předseda Pražské šachové společnosti
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Ján Markoš
nejlepší slovenský šachista a teolog
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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.
Lassies and Old Timers – Czech Coal Chess Match 2009
Boris Spasskij will be in Marienbad
[27.11.2009] - The tenth world champion Boris Spasskij will be the guest of honor of a chess match „Snowdrops and Old-hands” - Czech Coal Chess Match 2009, which will take place in Marianske Lazne at Cristal Palace Hotel from 28th November till 5th December 2009.
Chess legends (Viktor Korchnoi, Jan Timman, Robert Hübner a Vlastimil Hort) will compete with young women grandmasters (Humpy Koneru, Anna Muzychuk, Katerina Lahno a Jana Jackova) in the two-round scheveningen match. A non-playing captain of the Old Timers will be the FIDE's ex-president, the grandmaster Fridrik Olafsson. Snowdrops wil... [all]
ČEZ CHESS TROPHY 2009
President, Prime-Minister and Grandmasters
[02.06.2009] - The match of grandmasters David Navara and Vassily Ivanchuk in rapid chess, which was the main attraction of the CEZ CHESS TROPHY 2009, ended in a distinct victory of the more experience player. The best Ukrainian grandmaster defeated last week in Prague the best Czech player 5,5 – 2,5 and he gained a trophy for the winner created by a sculptor Ludek Vondra.
The entire festival was a very prestigious event. It was opened by the Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer (who made a Fischer move e2-e4). The simul was watched for more than three hours by the Czech president Vaclav Klaus.
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ČEZ CHESS TROPHY 2009
Navara vs Ivanchuk
[15.05.2009] - The eight-game match in rapid chess, where the best Czech chess player David Navara will play against grandmaster Vassily Ivanchuk, who belongs to the absolute world chess top, is to take place between 27th to 31st May 2009 at Best Western Kampa hotel in Prague. Forty years old Vassily Ivanchuk has been among the world top players for the last twenty years. As per 1st January 2009 rated this most successful Ukrainian grandmaster third in the world chart. The match of grandmasters Navara and Ivanchuk is the main attraction of the chess festival ČEZ CHESS TROPHY 2009, which is held by a civic a... [all]
Lassies and Old Timers – Czech Coal Chess Match 2008
Hort with Karpov led Old Timers to triumph
[08.12.2008] - Old Timers proved that they are still great players and Lassies that future is ahead of them. In the tournament of chess legends (Karpov, Hort, Olafsson, Uhlmann) and promising young players (Cmilyte, Ushenina, Němcová, Jacková) grandmasters managed to win 17,5 : 14,5.
The two-rounded Scheveningen match, which was taking place from 28.11. till 6.12. 2008 in Marianske Lazne at Cristal Palace Hotel, was a dramatic one. The results were changing dramatically each round, alternating as often as white figures. After the round five, the result was 10:10. In the round seven Old Timers manage... [all]
The Lasses and the Old Stagers - Czech Coal Chess Match 2008
Czech beauty smashed Karpov
[01.12.2008] - It has been a long time since we read anything about chess in the Czech highest-circulation newspaper. Can we even remembre? On Monday, December 1, Blesk published almost full-page coverage from the match between the Lasses and the Old Stagers with a clear headline: „Czech beauty smashed Karpov“. Blesk informed about fantastic victory of the Czech WGM Jana Jackova over ex-world chess champion. Anatoly Karpov lost in 22 moves and it was only his second such loss within 50 years of his career. During the tournament grand opening celebration at the hotel Cristal Palace in Marianske Lazne the re... [all]
CZECH COAL CHESS MATCH - Snowdrops and Old-hands
Lasses versus Old Stagers
[25.11.2008] - A town, where seventy-two years old Goethe met his seventeen years old Ulrika, will see chess legendary players meeting promising young female chess talents.
The legendary players of sixty-four square board, among them names such as the former World Champion Anatolij Karpov or the best Czech chess player of the second half of 20th century, Vlastimil Hort, will compete against the young chess female players, including the World under-eighteen Vice-Champion, the Czech player, Kateřina Němcová.
Viktoria Cmilyte, Anna Ushenina and Jana Jacková will also be playing for the Team of La... [all]
Interview with Vladimir Kramnik
About Navara, psychological weapons used by Kasparov and Putin´s Russia
[28.07.2008] - GM Vladimir Kramnik gave this interview after his Prague´s match against GM David Navara in May 2008. It is long, deep and very interesting interview that has been republished on the several websites (including chessbase.com and kramnik.com) and has opened critic reaction in the newspaper The Times of India (see