DAVID NAVARA (born Mar-27-1985, 40 years old) Czech Republic [what is this?] IM (1999); GM (2002); Czech Champion (2004, 2005, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2022). Born in Prague, Grandmaster David Navara has been playing chess since he was six and became a grandmaster in 2002, six days before his seventeenth birthday. Numerous coaches have helped shape his talents, including Josef Pribyl, Ludek Pachman, and Vlastimil Jansa. Championships <Youth> He won the championships of the Czech Republic in his age category in 1993-95. <National> In 2004, he won the Czech championship for the first time scoring 8/11 in a field of 8 strong grandmasters. In 2005 he shared 1st place in the Czech championship with Jiri Stocek. Won the Czech Championship in 2010. In May 2012, he won the Czech Championship for the fourth time. He won the Czech Championship for the fifth time in May 2013 with a round to spare, possibly two as the tiebreakers were in his favour, his final score being an extremely dominant 8/9, 2.5 points clear of the runner up. In May 2015, he won the Czech Championship for the sixth time, on this occasion with a round to spare. <Continental> He scored a relatively meagre 7/11 in the European Championship (2012). He scored 7/10 in the European Championship (2013) (failing to qualify for the 2013 World Cup). He placed second in the European Championship (2015) (EICC), half a point behind Evgeny Najer. This would have qualified him for the World Cup 2015 had he not already qualified for that event in last year's EICC. He placed equal second at the European Championship (2014), scoring 8/11 and qualifying for the 2015 World Cup. <World> In 2008 Navara was announced as a participant in the inaugural FIDE Grand Prix cycle, as the nominee of the host city of Karlovy Vary. He qualified for the World Cup (2011) via his rating, and defeated Russian GM Nikolai Kabanov in the first round, US GM Alexander Onischuk in the second, and Ukrainian GMs Alexander Moiseenko and Yaroslav Zherebukh in the third and fourth rounds, but lost his quarter final contest with Russian GM Alexander Grischuk. He was a President's nominee to the World Cup (2013), where he defeated Sandro Mareco in the first round, but lost to Norwegian GM Jon Ludvig Hammer in the second round, and so was eliminated from the event. At the World Cup (2015), he played and defeated the Israeli champion Tamir Nabaty in the first round to progress through to the second round where he lost to Azeri GM Gadir Guseinov to be eliminated from the event. Tournaments In early 2011, he came in =3rd in the category 18 Reggio Emilia (2010/11). In March 2012, he placed equal second (third on tiebreak) at the Reykjavik Open (2012). Navara started 2013 with =5th, his 7.5/10 being a half point behind the co-leaders at Gibraltar Masters (2013), and followed up with a somewhat mediocre 7/10 at the Reykjavik Open (2013). He scored outright first with 8/9 at the Ostravsky konik 2014 - FIDE Open A In Czechia, a point and a half clear of the field. Navara started 2015 with a strong showing at the Tata Steel Challengers (2015) event, scoring 10/13 and placing outright second, half a point behind the winner Wei Yi. He placed =3rd alongside Michael Adams at the category 19 Biel (2015) tournament, behind Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Radoslaw Wojtaszek respectively. Team Events <Olympiad> He hit his stride during the Istanbul Olympiad (2012), playing board 2 for the Czech Republic and winning individual gold with a stunning score of 9.5/11, racking up a TPR of 2869. <National Representative> His first great achievement was at the 2001 European Team Championship in Leon, where he scored 7 out of 9 points (performance rating: 2775). <National and Continental Leagues> In 2011-12 he also played for 1. Novoborský ŠK in the Czech Extraliga, helping his team to first place with a personal scored of 8.5/10 (+7 =3) against a strong field of 7 GMs and 3 IMs. In 2012, he played in the French Top 12 League, in the Greek League and in the Polish Extraliga. Although he scored 8.5/11 in the 2012/13 season in the Czech Extraliga, it was insufficient to help his team AD Mahrla Praha above 11th (out of 12) place. In October 2013, he played top board for G-Team Novy Bor, scoring 4.5/7 and helping his team to win the European Club Cup (2013). Navara played top board for SV Mülheim Nord in the 2013-14 Bundesliga, his team placing second out of a field of 16. He is playing second board for this team in the 2014-15 Bundesliga. He also played in the last 4 rounds (19-22) for Jiangsu in the Chinese League 2014, helping his team to win gold. Matches He lost 3-1 in the Cez Trophy: Navara - Svidler (2012). In June 2013, he drew the match Navara vs Y Hou, 2013, drawing all four classical games; however, after drawing the blitz tiebreakers 1-1 he lost the Armageddon blitz tiebreaker. He lost the Cez Trophy Navara - Nakamura Match (2014) by 3.5-0.5. In June 2015, he lost the So - Navara Match (2015) by 1-3 (-2 =2). Rapid and Blitz He finished 2014 with =1st with 11/13 at the Czech Blitz Championship, a strong 8.5/13 at the European Rapid Championship and a spectacular first place with 19/22 (2 clear of the field) at the European Blitz Championship. Rating and Ranking Navara's peak rating to date 2751 in May 2015 (when he was ranked world #14), while his peak ranking was world #13 in October 2006 when he was rated 2725. Sources and References Wikipedia article: David Navara; live rating: http://www.2700chess.com/ Last updated: 2022-11-09 15:16:40

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page 1 of 103; games 1-25 of 2,574  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. L Hajek vs Navara   0-1 45 1993 CZE Czechia-ch U12 A17 English 2. J Jirka vs Navara   0-1 41 1993 CZE Czechia-ch U12 B72 Sicilian, Dragon 3. Navara vs R Kaderka 1-0 46 1993 CZE Czechia-ch U12 C47 Four Knights 4. Navara vs J Soukup   1-0 39 1993 CZE Czechia-ch U12 C48 Four Knights 5. Navara vs T Vanek   ½-½ 30 1993 CZE Czechia-ch U12 C47 Four Knights 6. Navara vs M Voracek   1-0 38 1993 CZE Czechia-ch U12 C47 Four Knights 7. P Stehno vs Navara 1-0 17 1993 CZE Czechia-ch U12 C30 King's Gambit Declined 8. E Ardic vs Navara   0-1 21 1994 Wch U10 C02 French, Advance 9. Navara vs N Danilov 1-0 38 1994 Wch U10 C47 Four Knights 10. Navara vs A Fama   ½-½ 66 1994 Wch U10 B96 Sicilian, Najdorf 11. J Chen vs Navara   1-0 58 1994 Wch U10 C10 French 12. Navara vs B Kukovec   ½-½ 41 1994 Wch U10 B77 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack 13. V Bhat vs Navara   1-0 34 1994 Wch U10 C02 French, Advance 14. Navara vs J Werle 1-0 25 1994 Wch U10 B89 Sicilian 15. S Karthick vs Navara   1-0 27 1994 Wch U10 B43 Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3 16. Navara vs D Rybansky 1-0 32 1994 Wch U10 C05 French, Tarrasch 17. M Vondracek vs Navara   1-0 49 1995 CZE-chT2a 9596 A02 Bird's Opening 18. Navara vs S Mahtesian 1-0 26 1995 EU-ch U10 B86 Sicilian, Fischer-Sozin Attack 19. Navara vs C Jeitz   1-0 24 1995 EU-ch U10 C41 Philidor Defense 20. M Szablewski vs Navara   0-1 42 1995 EU-ch U10 B50 Sicilian 21. G Antal vs Navara   1-0 23 1995 EU-ch U10 B92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation 22. Navara vs G Livshits   1-0 44 1995 EU-ch U10 B45 Sicilian, Taimanov 23. A Riazantsev vs Navara   1-0 47 1995 EU-ch U10 D51 Queen's Gambit Declined 24. Navara vs I Cheparinov   0-1 29 1995 EU-ch U10 C71 Ruy Lopez 25. N Shikov vs Navara   0-1 40 1995 EU-ch U10 A03 Bird's Opening  page 1 of 103; games 1-25 of 2,574

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 12 OF 24 ·  Later Kibitzing> Mar-19-07    slomarko: -42.6 and -12.8 ????? Mar-19-07    slomarko: so its gonna be 2670 Mar-19-07    Mameluk: I am afraid he will lose as much as he gained in first half of 2006. He did not play that bad since he was 15, 11 games since Wijk makes it no accident. I hope he can be back before World Cup starts. Mar-19-07    notyetagm: <Mameluk: I am afraid he will lose as much as he gained in first half of 2006.> Wow! Last year Navara gained 61 points on the Jul 1 rating list due to league play and this year he is going lose 54.5 points on the Jul 1 rating lust, also due to league play. And the league's aren't over yet! Navara could wind up losing 70(!) points due to league play. Absolutely amazing. Back to square one, 2670. League play giveth and league play taketh away. Mar-25-07    Mameluk: If anybody is still interested in this ex-talent, he keeps on losing. After solid 4.5/6 in Czech league in autumn he did 1.5/4 in spring and loses another 15-20 Elo points and it starts to be a fight to be in top 1OO in July. A case for a doctor, definitely, giving up chess for a year or two would be another possibility, I just hope he will not give up playing completely, because I have not seen such natural talent in whole life. Mar-25-07    sapfy: Mameluk, do you have a link to a page with the results from the Czech league? Mar-25-07    notyetagm: <Mameluk: If anybody is still interested in this ex-talent, he keeps on losing. After solid 4.5/6 in Czech league in autumn he did 1.5/4 in spring and loses another 15-20 Elo points and it starts to be a fight to be in top 1OO in July.> Oh my god. Are you serious? Navara is going to lose 42.6 points from the Bundesliga, 12.8 points from the British 4NCL, and also about 20(!) points from the Czech league? That's -42.6 -12.8 -20 ~= -75(!!!!) 75 points on the July 1 FIDE list! Damn, Navara's league catastrophes will knock his rating back to 2650! Forget about being invited to Corus next year. Mar-25-07    slomarko: well maybe to Corus B Mar-25-07    notyetagm: <slomarko: well maybe to Corus B> But that's quite a fall after having played Anand, Topalov, and Kramnik in Corus A the previous year. Mar-25-07    slomarko: indeed but what can one do. Corus B is at least better than nothing. he should be given a chance in a tourney like Amber but i guess we have to watch the Van Welys and Vallejos of this world. Mar-26-07    Mameluk: <sapfy> www.chess.cz/extraliga I already stopped calculating Navara´s losses, but after 4.5/6 he was on zero. At least the best team won again:) Mar-26-07    slomarko: http://www.chess-players.org/eng/ne... Mar-26-07    barbababa: <But that's quite a fall after having played Anand, Topalov, and Kramnik in Corus A the previous year.> Krasenkow played in Corus A 2003 and in Corus C 2007. Mar-27-07    Youjoin: Happy Birthday, Dave. Apr-11-07    TheGladiator: Rating changes for last five rounds of Czech league for Navara. Navara counted as 2725 - other ratings also as of Oct 2006 (which was current when the league started): 7. didn't play 8. vasil trichkov (2342) 0 --> -8,9 9. jan markos (2538) 1 --> +3,9 10. wojtaszek (2630) 1/2 --> -1,3 11. aleksander mista (2526) 0 --> -7,6 Sum: -13,6 So... -42,7 -12,8 -13,6 = -69,1 And 2720 - 69,1 = 2651 Assuming <Mameluk> was right that it was exactly 0,0 after 6 rounds... Has Navara got any other tournaments due for the July list? Apr-26-07    bauernfresser: What a pity. Let's hope he can make sense of his mistakes and learn from them. I think he recently has concentrated on his education, so maybe we should judge him by academic results first, chess second. Trying to build a database on the drawniks of the chess world, I stumbled over an astonishing record: Counting the games in the chessgames database, David Navara is -should I say "will have been"?- the top class player least likely to make short draws. He has 48 draws with 30 moves or less out of 734 games (as of 2007-04-26), which is about 6.5%. For comparison: Nakamura 7.8%, Morozevich 9%, Topalov 14%, Anand 23%, Kramnik 26%. He is also the only Top 20 player who never made a draw with White in 15 moves or less. Sweet innocence. The next-highest-rated player with this peculiar distinction is the Chinese Wang Yue at #50. Apr-26-07    Mameluk: <TheGladiator> These six games were already counted for April, he gained 1 rating point. <bauernfresser> Really interestin stats, he led SFischl´s stats, too. Even if it is hard to compare with Topalov and Morozevich, against such opposition I can imagine him to make some short draws. Must look at Wang yue some day. Here is his most brilliant game this year, but sometimes you just can´t win... [Event "Extraliga Mahrla Praha-Ostrava"] [Site "?"] [Date "2007.??.??"] [Round "10"] [White "Navara"] [Black "Wojtaszek"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [ECO "E15"] [PlyCount "136"] [EventDate "2007.??.??"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. c4 b6 4. g3 Ba6 5. b3 Bb4+ 6. Bd2 Be7 7. Nc3 c6 8. e4 d5 9. Qc2 dxe4 10. Nxe4 c5 11. Nxf6+ Bxf6 12. Qe4 Qc8 13. Ne5 Bb7 14. d5 exd5 15. cxd5 O-O 16. Bd3 g6 17. O-O Qd8 18. Bc4 a6 19. Bh6 Bg7 20. Nc6 Qf6 21. Ne7+ Kh8 22. Bxg7+ Kxg7 23. Rfe1 Nd7 24. Rad1 Rfe8 25. Qe3 Rad8 26. a4 Qd6 27. Qg5 Kh8 28. Nc6 Bxc6 29. dxc6 Qxc6 30. Re7 Qf6 31. Qxf6+ Nxf6 32. Rxd8 Rxd8 33. Rxf7 Ne4 34. Rb7 Rd6 35. Bxa6 Nd2 36. Bc4 Nxc4 37. bxc4 Rd1+ 38. Kg2 Ra1 39. Kf3 Rxa4 40. Kf4 Rxc4+ 41. Kg5 Rd4 42. Kh6 Kg8 43. Rb8+ Kf7 44. Rxb6 Rd2 45. h4 Rxf2 46. Kxh7 g5 47. hxg5 Rh2+ 48. Rh6 Rxh6+ 49. gxh6 c4 50. g4 c3 51. g5 c2 52. g6+ Ke7 53. g7 c1=Q 54. g8=Q Qf4 55. Qg7+ Qf7 56. Kh8 Ke8 57. Qg8+ Ke7 58. Qg5+ Ke8 59. Qe5+ Kd7 60. Qb5+ Kd8 61. Qb8+ Kd7 62. Qb7+ Ke8 63. Qc8+ Ke7 64. Qc7+ Ke8 65. Qe5+ Kd7 66. Qg7 Ke8 67. Qxf7+ Kxf7 68. h7 Kf8 1/2-1/2 Apr-28-07    TheGladiator: <Mameluk> Ok. So then it'll probably be 2651 in July, I assume. I wonder if the candidates will be rated for July - maybe the first 8 matches but not the last 4? You never know with FIDE ... Apr-28-07    Mameluk: <TheGladiator> Or if such Grischuk wins 3,5-0,5, the result will count because it will finish before 1st June, while the 3,5-2,5 matches won´t count:) Exactly 2651 probably not, right now French league is being played, only 4 2700+ players this time. Navara, Mamedyarov and Bacrot quickly won, Jakovenko is playing. Apr-28-07    TheGladiator: <Mameluk> Ok, some time ago I asked if there were more games to be rated for Navara before July, and because you didn't say anything, I wrongly assumed there were none. But well - it will probably be more in the vicinity of 2650 than 2700 anyway, if there is nothing but the occasional team match coming up... Thx for keeping us up to date on various events :) May-01-07    Mameluk: 3/4 in French league and 3 blacks shows there will be some Navara revival, of course for gaining rating he must mainly play better since July. May-29-07    cpoc: Navara will play rapid at Czech open. http://www.czechopen.net/news/regpl... With Mamedyarov also participating I think the field will be quite strong.. Jun-22-07    TheGladiator: Navara jumps out of 2700 territory (only for now, hopefully) just as spectacularly as he went into it: http://www.fide.com/ratings/tourney... 2720 - 64,3 = 2656 for July list. Jun-24-07    notyetagm: <TheGladiator: Navara jumps out of 2700 territory (only for now, hopefully) just as spectacularly as he went into it: http://www.fide.com/ratings/tourney... 2720 - 64,3 = 2656 for July list.> Wow. From the 2720's to 2650's in one rating period. I know, league play changes only count when the league is over but still. <-64.3> points is an -amazing- drop for a 2700-rated player who drew Black games against Anand, Topalov, and Kramnik at Corus in January. Jul-17-07    argishti: woww. what happpened to this guy... Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 24) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 12 OF 24 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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