ČEZ CHESS TROPHY 2009 | 15.05.2009
Navara vs Ivanchuk
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 association Prague Chess Society. All games will be commented on for the audience by the Czech-American grandmaster, Lubomír Kaválek. All games will be shown on-line. The match will be complemented by a chess simul and by lectures by grandmasters Lubomír Kaválek, Vlastimil Hort and Ján Plachetka. The chess festival ČEZ CHESS TROPHY 2009 is held in a partnership with the capital city Prague.
ČEZ CHESS TROPHY 2010 | 25.04.2010
Judit Polgar wins 6:2
ČEZ CHESS TROPHY 2010 | 24.04.2010
Judit Polgar has decided the result in the 5-th game already
ČEZ CHESS TROPHY 2010 | 23.04.2010
Prime minister Fischer opens match Navara-Polgar
ČEZ CHESS TROPHY 2010 | 21.04.2010
The world's most famous woman chessplayer arrived to Prague
ČEZ CHESS TROPHY 2010 | 11.03.2010
The world's most famous female chessplayer is coming to Prague
Bobby Fischer and Karel Opocensky
Prague Chess Society is preparing release of two extraordinary chess book this year. The first book will be a compilation of games, played by the legendary Grandmaster Bobby Fisxher, who passed away this year. The books will cover 23 games played by the American Grandmaster against Czech grandmasters Ludek Pachman, Miroslav Filip, Lubomir Kavalek and Vlastimil Hort. Games will be commented on by Grandmasters Pachman, Navara, Kavalek and Hort. The other book which is being prepared, is a monograph about the first Czech Master Karel Opocensky. This book too is co-written by Grandmasters Vlastimil Hort and Lubomir Kavalek together with Vitezslav Houska, who half a century ago wrote a book about Opocensky, called Above All World's Chessbords.
