Vlastimil Chládek
ředitel Dopravních staveb Brno
U Pásků
Michal Špaček
Amatérský šachista, profesionální ekonom
Z Trenčína do Prahy
Luděk Sedlák
skladatel studií a vydavatel Šemíka
Životní partie pod hlavněmi tanků
David Navara
nejlepší český šachista
Gibraltar 2018 aneb Buď zDRAW!
Vlado Hrtko
Manažer se smyslem pro černý humor
Keď chceš Boha rozosmiať, povedz mu svoje plány
Štěpán Žilka
šachový mezinárodní mistr
Just another day at the office
Otakar Válek
ředitel strojírenské firmy
Olympiáda
Robert Cvek
šachový velmistr
Mistrovství České republiky z pohledu trenéra
Pavel Matocha
předseda Pražské šachové společnosti
Simultánky s Garrim
Ján Markoš
nejlepší slovenský šachista a teolog
Šedá zóna
David Kaňovský
šachový mezinárodní mistr
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Martin Habina
architekt
Pyramida
Igor Němec
předseda Úřadu na ochranu osobních údajů
Šachy s prezidentským kandidátem
Václav Klaus
Ředitel gymnázia
Nejhorší na světě je prohrát šachovou partii
Jan Hofírek
otec a trenér
Napoleon Bonaparte a šachy...
Vítězslav Houška
spisovatel a publicista
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Soňa Pertlová
šachová mezinárodní mistryně
PF 2011
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.
[12.10.2019 00:00:00] - The Chess Train is dropping us off at the railway station in Karlovy Vary, the sun is appearing, and we are expecting to have a wonderful weather all the way. As in previous years. They love us above, moreover, there are already three of the faithful participants of the Chess Train of previous years - Marianne Hartlaub, Johann Slacik and Jon Loman.
From the Imperial Hotel, where the famous Carlsbad chess tournament was played in 1923, we come down to the center by a funicular. Karlovy Vary is a live city with a lot of visitors even now in the middle of October, when we would expect the season is over. We walk around the colonnade and we continue to the Imperial Spa, where we organized a simultaneous game of Carlsbad champion Jiří Štoček 12 years ago.
In the evening, before returning to the presence and the expected football qualification of the Czech Republic vs. England, we are sitting in the Grandhotel Pupp. Rudolf Götzl, „food manager“ of the Chess Train, recalls how he was at hotel Pupp on a three-month practice when he studied at the Secondary Hotel School in Karlovy Vary. Yeah, those were the times ... And we remember those famous Carlsbad chess tournaments 1907, 1911, 1923, 1929 and 2007. Yeah, those were the times ...
Michael vs. Michal. Chairman of the Prague Chess Society Pavel Matocha watches the fight on the first chessboard between the German Grandmaster Michael Prusikin and his chess club colleague Michal Spacek.
The first stage thus led the Chess Train to the West of Bohemia to the spa town of Karlovy Vary. The next day it is directed to the South Bohemia, to the wonderful small town of Český Krumlov. The weather is cloudless, just like our journey.
In the tournament, the players have finished the first four rounds, and in the first place with the full number of points is the German Grandmaster Michael Prusikin, the biggest favorite. Six players with 3.5-points are on the second place for now, Ladislav Langner, Bram Van Der Berg, Lumir Mrazek, N. R. Anilkumar and Matias Jolowicz.
You can follow the actual ranking here.
More photos and insides you can check at FB profile of the Chess Train.
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