Photograph © 2007 Jovanka Houska.

Jovanka Houska
Number of games in database: 385
Years covered: 1999 to 2009
Current FIDE rating: 2402
Highest rating achieved in database: 2405
Overall record: +148 -102 =133 (56.0%)*
   * 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 B43 B50 B24 B30  King's Indian (17)      E67 E60 E63 E62 E66  French Defense (16)      C02 C11 C05 C17 C00  Slav (11)      D11 D12 D15  Caro-Kann (10)      B12 B15 B18 B19  Queen's Indian (8)      E15 E16 E17 E19	With the Black pieces:  Caro-Kann (64)      B18 B12 B10 B14 B19  Semi-Slav (27)      D43 D45 D47 D46  Slav (26)      D15 D12 D10 D11 D13  Scandinavian (11)      B01  Queen's Pawn Game (9)      D02 D04 A50 A45 D00  Ruy Lopez (6)      C78 C69 C77

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   J Houska vs A Harley, 2001 1-0
   J Houska vs G Koskoska, 2005 1-0
   T Borvander vs J Houska, 2007 0-1
   J Houska vs A Stefanova, 2008 1-0

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page 1 of 16; games 1-25 of 385  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. J Houska vs A Kosten   ½-½ 30 1999 Ch Great Britain, Scarborough (England) A07 King's Indian Attack 2. C Waters vs J Houska   ½-½ 53 1999 Ch Great Britain, Scarborough (England) D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 3. H Hunt vs J Houska   1-0 38 1999 Ch Great Britain, Scarborough (England) B06 Robatsch 4. M Sebag vs J Houska   ½-½ 58 1999 Zone 1.1 (women) B01 Scandinavian 5. J Houska vs A Summerscale   0-1 33 1999 Ch Great Britain, Scarborough (England) B03 Alekhine's Defense 6. J Houska vs B Thipsay   1-0 47 1999 Ch Great Britain, Scarborough (England) B12 Caro-Kann Defense 7. B Reefat vs J Houska   0-1 43 1999 Ch Great Britain, Scarborough (England) B01 Scandinavian 8. J McDonnell vs J Houska   ½-½ 57 1999 Ch Great Britain, Scarborough (England) B01 Scandinavian 9. J Houska vs J N Sugden   1-0 35 1999 Ch Great Britain, Scarborough (England) B12 Caro-Kann Defense 10. D Mason vs J Houska   ½-½ 72 2001 4NCL B14 Caro-Kann, Panov-Botvinnik Attack 11. A Kunte vs J Houska   ½-½ 23 2001 Ron Banwell Masters B14 Caro-Kann, Panov-Botvinnik Attack 12. J Houska vs I Brandis   1-0 49 2001 EuTChw B08 Pirc, Classical 13. J Houska vs C Njotea   1-0 31 2001 Ron Banwell Masters C25 Vienna 14. C Crouch vs J Houska   0-1 32 2001 4NCL D02 Queen's Pawn Game 15. J Houska vs R Pert   ½-½ 32 2001 4NCL B26 Sicilian, Closed, 6.Be3 16. J Houska vs D Anagnostopoulos   0-1 39 2001 Ron Banwell Masters B26 Sicilian, Closed, 6.Be3 17. J Houska vs K Kachiani   0-1 38 2001 EuTChw B12 Caro-Kann Defense 18. C McNab vs J Houska   1-0 39 2001 Ron Banwell Masters A11 English, Caro-Kann Defensive System 19. J Houska vs S Lalic   ½-½ 48 2001 4NCL B12 Caro-Kann Defense 20. S Barrett vs J Houska   0-1 38 2001 4NCL D11 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 21. V Krapivin vs J Houska   1-0 34 2001 Schneider Bohemia Open C02 French, Advance 22. Bosboom-Lanchava vs J Houska   ½-½ 38 2001 EuTChw D13 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Exchange Variation 23. J Houska vs O Kirsanov   ½-½ 19 2001 Ron Banwell Masters B05 Alekhine's Defense, Modern 24. J Houska vs P Konguvel   0-1 42 2001 Ron Banwell Masters B26 Sicilian, Closed, 6.Be3 25. J Houska vs A Harley 1-0 57 2001 4NCL B24 Sicilian, Closed  page 1 of 16; games 1-25 of 385    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2) | Houska wins | Houska loses

Aug-24-05    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    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... _ Apr-23-07    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    chancho: http://www.chessbase.de/2005/sofia/... Apr-24-07    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    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    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    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    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    whiteshark: Jovanka Houska @ Dresden 2008: http://chessbase.de/2008/dresdenoly... Dec-25-08    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    brankat: An excellent result for Jovanka in Hastings, 6/9, +5 -2 =2. Ahead of a few GMs.

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