Events
SNOWDROPS AND OLDHANDS – CZECH COAL CHESS MATCH 2012
(December 2012, Hotel Zámeček, Poděbrady)
The team of legendary grandmasters (Wolfgang Uhlmann, Fridrik Olafsson, Oleg Romanishin and Vlastimil Hort) will compete in two round scheveningen match called Snowdrops and Oldhands - Czech Coal Chess Match 2012 with the rising generation of women grandmasters (Valentina Gunina, Tania Sachdev, Alina Kashlinskaja a Kristýna Havlíková) from the 8th December till the 16th December at Hotel Zámeček in Poděbrady.
The time limit of a game is 90 minutes for 40 moves with additional 30 minutes till the end of the game plus 30 seconds for each completed move.
The guest of honour is Yuri Averbakh, the oldest living grandmaster of the world.
The tournament is held by the society Šach Mat ltd. and the civic association Prague Chess Society.
CUBIST EXHIBITION IN GRAND CAFÉ ORIENT
The best Czech chess player David Navara won a rapid game against the second best Indian player Pentala Harikrishna. They played on the cubist chess set designed by Jaroslav Juřica in the cubist cafe Grand Café Orient, that is located in the cubist house U Černé Matky Boží in the centre of Prague, on Wednesday, the 21st of Nowember 2012.
The simultaneous game of grandmaster Harikrishna against 14 adversaries succeeded this cubist exhibition, visited also by Oldřich Lomecký, Mayor of Prague 1, and grandmaster Vlastimil Hort.
CHESS TRAIN
(October 2012, Prague - Dresden – Wroclaw – Piestany – Vienna – Prague)
Take a trip to five beautiful Central-European cities and play the rapid chess tournament on the way. Specially launched train will start from Prague on October 12-th, 2012 at 10 am and during the way to Dresden you will play first 2 rounds of the tournament. There you can visit the famous Gallery or Opera or just take a walk in baroque streets where the Chess Olympics took place. Going to Wroclaw, the birth-place of famous chess player Anderssen, 2 more rounds would take place. On October 14-th the Chess train will continue to small spa town Piestany remembering Rubinstein, Bogoljubow and Alekhine. On October 15-th the train will go to Vienna, the Austrian metropolis famous for its Sacher cake, Viennese coffee and the chess tournaments. On October 16-th the last 2 rounds of this unusual tournament will be played on the way back to the magic town of Prague.
Svidler vs. Navara – ČEZ CHESS TROPHY 2012
(June 2012, Malostranská beseda, Prague)
The winner of The World Cup 2011 and 6 times winner of Russia championship Peter Svidler has played in Prague with the best Czech player David Navara. It was a match of 4 games (FIDE time control: 90 min / 40 moves, + 30 min till the end, + 30 s per move). The grandmaster Svidler won 3 : 1. The games were commented by Grandmasters Robert Cvek a Ján Markoš. The simultaneous games, lectures and exhibition made part of the chess festival ČEZ CHESS TROPHY 2012, which took place from 20 to 24 of June in Malostranska beseda (Malostranské sq. 21, Prague 1). The occasional post stamps and special postcards were issued for this event.