Czech Chess Championship
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The Czech National Chess Championship is the chess competition, which determines the best Czech Republic chess player.
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[edit] History
First national championships were held before founding of independent Czechoslovakia as the championships of Bohemia (within the Austro-Hungarian Empire) every second year between 1905 and 1913. Then the independent Czech Republic's championships continued the line.
1905 - 1913 - championships of Bohemia
1940 - 1944 - championships of Bohemia and Moravia
1993 - today - championships of Czech Republic
For Czechoslovak championship see Czechoslovak Chess Championship.
[edit] List of Winners
[edit] Championships of Bohemia
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Year City Winner 1905 Prague Oldřich Duras 1907 Brno František Treybal 1909 Prague Oldřich Duras 1911 Plzeň Oldřich Duras 1913 Mladá Boleslav Karel Hromádka
[edit] Championships of Bohemia and Moravia
(in the years of World War II)
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Year City Winner 1940 Rakovník Jan Foltys 1943 Prague František Zíta 1944 Brno Karel Opočenský
[edit] Championships of Czech Republic
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Year City Winner 1993 Luhačovice Vlastimil Babula 1994 Ústí nad Labem Zbyněk Hráček 1995 Olomouc Karel Mokrý 1996 Turnov Petr Hába 1997 Zlín Pavel Blatný 1998 Zlín Sergei Movsesian 1999 Lázně Bohdaneč Marek Vokáč 2000 Opava Pavel Blatný 2001 Kunžak Eduard Meduna 2002 Ostrava Petr Hába 2003 Luhačovice Miloš Jirovský 2004 Karlovy Vary David Navara 2005 Karlovy Vary David Navara 2006 Brno Viktor Láznička 2007 Prague Tomáš Polák
[edit] Multiple Winners
Only Oldřich Duras won the Czech championship three times between 1905 and 1911. Petr Hába, Pavel Blatný and David Navara won each twice.
The Czech Chess Union and Czech chess press count all Czech and Czechoslovak titles together, with the resulting ranking as follows:
- 7 titles: Luděk Pachman (1946-1966)
- 6 titles: Vlastimil Hort (1969-1977)
- 5 titles: Lubomír Ftáčník (1981-1989)
- 3 titles: Oldřich Duras (1905-1911), Miroslav Filip (1950-1954), Vlastimil Jansa (1964-1984), Karel Opočenský (1927-1938), Jan Smejkal (1973-1986)
[edit] Bibliography
MODR, Břetislav - VESELÝ, Jiří: 100 let organizovaného šachu v českých zemích. Příbram, 2005. 223 p. ISBN 80-86595-14-05
