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J Houska 
Photograph © 2007 Jovanka Houska.  
Jovanka Houska
Number of games in database: 404
Years covered: 1999 to 2009
Current FIDE rating: 2381
Highest rating achieved in database: 2405
Overall record: +154 -105 =143 (56.1%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      2 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Sicilian (54) 
    B31 B50 B43 B30 B24
 King's Indian (21) 
    E60 E67 E63 E62 E66
 French Defense (16) 
    C02 C11 C17 C05 C00
 Slav (14) 
    D12 D11 D15
 Caro-Kann (10) 
    B12 B15 B18 B19
 Queen's Indian (9) 
    E15 E16 E17 E19
With the Black pieces:
 Caro-Kann (69) 
    B18 B12 B10 B14 B19
 Slav (28) 
    D15 D12 D11 D10 D13
 Semi-Slav (27) 
    D43 D45 D47 D46
 Scandinavian (11) 
    B01
 Queen's Pawn Game (10) 
    D02 D04 D00 A50 A45
 Ruy Lopez (6) 
    C78 C69 C77
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   J Houska vs A Harley, 2001 1-0
   J Houska vs G Koskoska, 2005 1-0
   J Houska vs A Stefanova, 2008 1-0
   J Houska vs J Dworakowska, 2006 1/2-1/2

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 page 1 of 17; games 1-25 of 404  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves Year Event/LocaleOpening
1. J Houska vs J N Sugden  1-035 1999 Ch Great Britain, Scarborough (England)B12 Caro-Kann Defense
2. J Houska vs A Kosten  ½-½30 1999 Ch Great Britain, Scarborough (England)A07 King's Indian Attack
3. C Waters vs J Houska  ½-½53 1999 Ch Great Britain, Scarborough (England)D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
4. H Hunt vs J Houska  1-038 1999 Ch Great Britain, Scarborough (England)B06 Robatsch
5. M Sebag vs J Houska  ½-½58 1999 Zone 1.1 (women)B01 Scandinavian
6. J Houska vs A Summerscale  0-133 1999 Ch Great Britain, Scarborough (England)B03 Alekhine's Defense
7. J Houska vs B Thipsay  1-047 1999 Ch Great Britain, Scarborough (England)B12 Caro-Kann Defense
8. B Reefat vs J Houska  0-143 1999 Ch Great Britain, Scarborough (England)B01 Scandinavian
9. J McDonnell vs J Houska  ½-½57 1999 Ch Great Britain, Scarborough (England)B01 Scandinavian
10. Bosboom-Lanchava vs J Houska  ½-½38 2001 EuTChwD13 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Exchange Variation
11. J Houska vs O Kirsanov  ½-½19 2001 Ron Banwell MastersB05 Alekhine's Defense, Modern
12. J Houska vs P Konguvel  0-142 2001 Ron Banwell MastersB26 Sicilian, Closed, 6.Be3
13. J Houska vs A Harley 1-057 2001 4NCLB24 Sicilian, Closed
14. J Houska vs R Pert  ½-½32 2001 4NCLB26 Sicilian, Closed, 6.Be3
15. J Houska vs D Barua  1-063 2001 Ron Banwell MastersC02 French, Advance
16. I Rajlich vs J Houska  ½-½26 2001 EuTChwD15 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
17. A Bigg vs J Houska 0-139 2001 Ron Banwell MastersD15 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
18. S Batyrov vs J Houska  ½-½47 2001 Ron Banwell MastersD15 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
19. J Houska vs S Petrenko  0-148 2001 EuTChwB23 Sicilian, Closed
20. J Barle vs J Houska  0-135 2001 Ron Banwell MastersB14 Caro-Kann, Panov-Botvinnik Attack
21. G Koskoska vs J Houska 0-162 2001 EuTChwB14 Caro-Kann, Panov-Botvinnik Attack
22. A Kunte vs J Houska  ½-½23 2001 Ron Banwell MastersB14 Caro-Kann, Panov-Botvinnik Attack
23. J Houska vs I Brandis  1-049 2001 EuTChwB08 Pirc, Classical
24. J Houska vs C Njotea  1-031 2001 Ron Banwell MastersC25 Vienna
25. C Crouch vs J Houska  0-132 2001 4NCLD02 Queen's Pawn Game
 page 1 of 17; games 1-25 of 404  PGN Download
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Kibitzer's Corner
Aug-24-05
Premium Chessgames Member
  WannaBe: Photo of Ms. Houska along with others, her photo is about 1/2 way down the page, curly hair.

http://www.chessbase.com/eventartic...

Aug-24-05
Premium Chessgames Member
  Eric Schiller: I hope to take some photos tomorrow and post them at the Staunton Memorial website.
Mar-13-06   EmperorAtahualpa: A photo of her taken during the Women's World Chess Championships: http://www.womenchess.com/images/ga...
Jun-09-06   BIDMONFA: Jovanka Houska

HOUSKA, Jovanka
http://www.bidmonfa.com/houska_jova...
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Apr-23-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  notyetagm: There is a lovely picture of Ms Houska on page 22 of the April CHESS Monthly magazine. She is really quite beautiful.
Apr-24-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  chancho: http://www.chessbase.de/2005/sofia/...
Apr-24-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  notyetagm: <chancho: http://www.chessbase.de/2005/sofia/...;

She's much prettier in CHESS Monthly. No glasses, for one thing.

Jul-22-07   tud: She is amazingly beautiful and won today in Montreal - nice and neat game .
Jul-26-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  Marmot PFL: In that photo she looks like the brainy girl that stays home solving math problems while the cheerleaders are all out on dates.
Jul-26-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  Karpova: http://www.bcf.org.uk/assets/images...

http://www.frankfurtwest.de/ChessCl...

http://beta.uschess.org/frontend/co...

Jul-26-07   tud: Much better in reality ! - not very photogenic looks like
Aug-09-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  Karpova: http://www.howardstaunton.com/hsmt2... Round 1, first picture
Oct-30-07   Udit Narayan: Have to say she looks stunning in this picture....and she beat Lahno in the European team event, so all the more credit to her:

http://www.chessbase.com/news/2007/...

Oct-30-07   DCP23: <Udit Narayan>: <and she beat Lahno in the European team event>

She did nothing of the kind. The game Houska vs Lahno was a draw.

Oct-30-07   Udit Narayan: <DCP23> You're right...I guess I read that chessbase article too quickly.
Nov-24-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  ketchuplover: Her recent "Play the Caro-Kann" is quite good(according to some reviews).
Apr-18-08   DanielBryant: <ketchuplover> I've learned a lot from the book, although it should be noted that she does favor offbeat lines and introduce a number of novelties. I followed her Fantasy Variation analysis in a correspondence game in which I was black and found myself lost when my opponent deviated after ten moves. However, with the more mainstream CK lines, she does devote more attention and considers most plausible variations.

The two chapters dealing with the CK Advance Variation consider 3...c5 rather than 3...Bf5 exclusively. At first, I was skeptical of this line, but Houska preps the reader for this line well.

Nov-17-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  whiteshark: Jovanka Houska @ Dresden 2008: http://chessbase.de/2008/dresdenoly...
Dec-25-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  Joshka: For you ICC Members, she was interviewed by John Watson on his show last night! It's available on replay of course.
Jan-12-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  brankat: An excellent result for Jovanka in Hastings, 6/9, +5 -2 =2. Ahead of a few GMs.
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