David Navara is a Chess Grandmaster from Czech Republic with Elo ratings exceeding 2600 with a peak rating of 2751, ranked from FIDE, making him one of the best Czech chess players of all time.
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Full Name: David Navara
Title: Grandmaster (2002)
International Master (1999)
Place of birth: Prague, Czechoslovakia
Born: March 27, 1985
Federation: Czech Republic
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Ratings
World ranking: 58
Rapid: 2659
Blitz: 2676
Classical: 2681
Peak rating: 2751 (May 2015)
Profiles
Most Frequently Played Openings
With The White Pieces
- Sicilian Defense
- Ruy Lopez
- French Defense
With The Black Pieces
- Sicilian
- Grunfeld
- Ruy Lopez
Biography
David Navara is a chess Grandmaster born on March 27, 1985, in Prague, Czech Republic. Navara was awarded the grandmaster title in 2002 and the International Master title in 1999. As of September 2022, Navara’s FIDE rating was 2681 while his Peak rating was 2751 as of May 2015. Navara is the top-ranked chess player in his country and he is an eleven-time national victor- 2004, 2005, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2022.
The Beginning
In 2001, at the age of 16, Navara’s maiden match was with the Czech national team in the European Team Chess Tournaments, scoring 7 points out of 9 games. One year afterward, 3 days before his seventeenth birthday, Navara was named Grandmaster and won the open section of the Rubinstein Memorial in 2003. Navara placed sixth in the 2004 European Individual Chess Tournament in Antalya, scoring 7.5 points, including a tie against top seed Vassily Ivanchuk, despite being ranked 14th. The outcome advanced Navara for the 2005 FIDE World Cup, where he was knocked out in the initial set by Predrag Nikoli. Navara scored 8.5/12 points against world-class competition at the 37th Chess Olympiad in 2006.
Furthermore, In April 2018, Navara competed in the fifth Shamkir Chess tournament, finishing tenth with a score of 2.5 points out of 9 games.
Notable Achievements
- Navara won the Czech Blitz Championship in 2019 with a score of 14 points out of 15 games.
- In 2014, Navara won the European Blitz Chess Championship.
- Navara won the open section of the Rubinstein Memorial in 2003.
Notable Games
David Navara vs Zdenko Kozul 1-0
David Navara vs Peter Svidler 1-0
Ivan Cheparinov vs David Navara 0-1
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Sources
- http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/~navara/navarad.htm
- https://gambit.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/15/two-tie-for-first-at-carlsbad-2007/
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/16/AR2007091601342.html
- http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7316
- http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6983
- https://web.archive.org/web/20111020150713/http:/www.chess.co.uk/twic/chessnews/events/fide-world-cup-khanty-mansiysk-2011