Vojtěch Plát (pictured above) and Karolina Pilsova won the Czech chess championship that took place in Zlin, a city in southeastern Moravia. Both events were ten-player round-robins with classical time control running from September 11-19 (women) and September 17-26 (open).
With two top-rated Czech players (David Navara and Viktor Laznicka) missing in the open competition, Vojtěch Plát had a great showing. The 27-year old GM from Prostejov scored 6½ points, earned the second national title in his career and became the only unbeaten participant in the tournament.
GMs Štěpán Žilka and Jan Krejčí finished just a half point behind the champion. Žilka who had a slightly better Sonneborn-Berger took silver, whearas Krejčí had to settle for bronze.
Final standings open:
|
1 |
GM |
Plat, Vojtech |
2536 |
6½ |
|
2 |
GM |
Zilka, Stepan |
2570 |
6 |
|
3 |
GM |
Krejci, Jan |
2539 |
6 |
|
4 |
GM |
Babula, Vlastimil |
2561 |
5 |
|
5 |
GM |
Stocek, Jiri |
2584 |
4½ |
|
6 |
GM |
Nguyen Thai Dai Van |
2594 |
4 |
|
7 |
IM |
Zwardon, Vojtech |
2498 |
4 |
|
8 |
GM |
Petr, Martin |
2508 |
3½ |
|
9 |
GM |
Polak, Tomas |
2545 |
3 |
|
10 |
FM |
Mladek, Richard |
2361 |
2½ |
By an odd coincidence, in the women’s tournament, the champion Karolina Pilsova also netted 6½ out of 9 and suffered no defeats either. Karin Nemcova and Magdalena Miturova tied for the second place with the former taking silver thanks to better tiebreaks.
Final standings women:
|
1 |
WGM |
Pilsová, Karolína |
2280 |
6½ |
|
2 |
Němcová, Karin |
2137 |
5½ |
|
|
3 |
WIM |
Miturová, Magdaléna |
2219 |
5½ |
|
4 |
WGM |
Petrová, Kristýna |
2285 |
5 |
|
5 |
WIM |
Richterová, Nataša |
2160 |
5 |
|
6 |
WIM |
Novosadová, Kristýna |
2107 |
4½ |
|
7 |
WIM |
Kaňáková, Natálie |
2180 |
4 |
|
8 |
WGM |
Kulovaná, Eva |
2164 |
3½ |
|
9 |
WFM |
Laurincová, Kristýna |
2070 |
3 |
|
10 |
WGM |
Sikorová, Olga |
2205 |
2½ |
Photo: Vladimír Jagr
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