Honza Cervenka Member since Sep-04-02 · Last seen Dec-31-25 I live in Stredokluky (a village near Prague, Czech republic). I play both practical and correspondence chess. My rating in practical chess (Czech national ELO) oscillates somewhere between 2010 and 2060, in correspondence chess I have rating 2155 (my best was 2220 in the middle of 90's). I have no special favorite player but I like to view good games of old masters (Tarrasch, Schlechter, Chigorin etc.)

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Dec-29-25 K Tsarouhas vs X Mastalerz, 2016    Honza Cervenka: <goodevans><I reckon Black actually played <58...Rf4?>> It looks quite plausible. And the continuation making most sense could be 58...Rf4 59.h7 Kg7 60.h8=Q+ Kxh8 61.Kg6 Kg8 62.c6 Rf2 63.c7 Rg2+ 64.Kf6 Rc2 65.Rxa2 Rc6+ 66.Kg5 Rxc7 etc. In this line 61.Kg6 ...      Dec-27-25 Schlechter vs J Bendiner, 1893    Honza Cervenka: This is one of those mating attacks, which is played by itself. Instead of 23.Rxh5 I was considering more prosaic 23.e6 Qf8 24.Qe4, which practically forces 24...Qf5 25.Qxf5 Nxf5 26.Bxf5 with decisive advantage of white but Schlechter's solution led to a forced mate.      Dec-18-25 Jansa vs Suetin, 1974   Honza Cervenka: 23.Qd1 with intention 23...Rac8 24.Ne4 would have been better. In the game 24.Ne4 allows 24...Nxe4! with idea 25.Bxd8 Rc1+ 26.Rf1 Nf2+ 27.Kg1 Nxd3+ 28.Bxb6 Kf8 ⩱      Dec-18-25 Jansa vs Smyslov, 1974   Honza Cervenka: 21.h4 and double trade on f5 led to deadly attack of black. 21.c4 followed by 22.Ra3 was the best way to meet Smyslov's planned 21...f5.      Dec-15-25 Velimirovic vs G Tringov, 1971   Honza Cervenka: Quite sad end for black Rook.      Dec-04-25 P Szakolczai vs M Donko, 1990   Honza Cervenka: I guess that the result should be rather 1-0 here. At least, 32.Rc2+ Kb7 33.Rxd5 Rxd5 34.Rc7+ Ka8 35.Bxe4 leads to a forced mate, for example 35...Re8 36.Rc8+ Rxc8 37.Bxd5+ Rc6 38.Bxc6#.      Dec-04-25 E Gereben vs O Troianescu, 1952   Honza Cervenka: If 19...h5(?), then 20.Ngf6+! +-      Dec-02-25 A Barnsley vs M Reijnen, 1997   Honza Cervenka: If 34...Rg7, then 35.Nd6 Kg8 36.Qe6+ Kf8 37.Nf5 Rf7 38.Qd6+ Ke8 39.Qd5 with double threat Qxa8 and Nd6+. 34...Kf7 35.Qh7+ Rg7 36.Nd6+ Kf8 37.Qh6 leads to the same final.      Dec-01-25 Praggnanandhaa vs E Gasanov, 2025   Honza Cervenka: 16...Ng5 was not a good idea. 16...Nh5 would have been better.      Nov-25-25 A Sherzer vs A Golikov, 1989   Honza Cervenka: 8...Ne5 is a dubious idea. 13...exf5 loses quickly after 14.Nd5 Qb8 15.Bb6 Nc6 16.Nc7+ etc.

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 13 OF 24 ·  Later Kibitzing> Mar-26-10    cu8sfan: I would have loved to vote for your beautiful baby but I just got back from vacation. Apparently my help was not needed. Congratulations to you both! Mar-26-10    Karpova: Congratulations! Michael was a fierce opponent (btw., which chess site was supporting him?) but it was a clear and fully deserved win for Aneta in the end! Mar-26-10    technical draw: I voted about 6 times for Aneta but now I have a little remorse. I wonder if bringing on the mighty power of Chessgames.com was fair. Unless (like Karpova asks) there was another chess site backing the main opponent. Mar-26-10    whatthefat: Ah, they should have known better than to take on The World. That's another feather to our cap: - Arno Nickel - Yury Shulman - Gert Jan Timmerman - Michael the baby Mar-26-10    SwitchingQuylthulg: <whatthefat> One major difference - where our chess team has often been bitter and divided with key contributors subject to attacks and insults after vocally supporting the other move, the team behind Aneta was truly united and worked seamlessly to achieve a common goal, any rifts between contributing members momentarily forgotten and left aside. Mar-26-10    Domdaniel: Aneta Cervenkova -- congratulations and have a good life. Your parents are good people. <Honza> I saw some of your interventions in the paper's debate. I wonder what kind of cyber-hinterland Baby Michael's parents had to call on ... do you know? And should we keep voting for the monthly prize? It's a pleasure and an honour to vote for Aneta, as far as I'm concerned. And, tak, you have many other friends here too... Mar-26-10    zanshin: <technical draw: I voted about 6 times for Aneta but now I have a little remorse. I wonder if bringing on the mighty power of Chessgames.com was fair. Unless (like Karpova asks) there was another chess site backing the main opponent.> <TD> I wouldn't feel any remorse. I think <karpova> was joking about another chess site because it didn't have to be a chess site. It could have been a company, facebook group, eGroup, etc. etc. Their effort was also a concerted group effort and ours won. I don't think the voting site should have encouraged multiple votes, but it was clearly within the rules. As <Switch> said, we forgot our differences and worked for a common goal. Don't feel bad about it. Mar-26-10    YouRang: <whatthefat: Ah, they should have known better than to take on The World. That's another feather to our cap:> lol! Yes, our worthy opponent was doomed from the start by going up against a bunch of chess players! For us, it is nothing to vote, sit patiently for an hour, vote again, sit another hour, vote, ... Mar-26-10    MostlyAverageJoe: <technical draw: I voted about 6 times for Aneta> Slacker. Mar-27-10    just a kid: Hi, I voted 5 times for Aneta Mar-27-10    Gypsy: <Honzo> Z celeho srdce vam gratuluji k nadherne dceri! Ceka vas krasna doba v rodine: prvni kroky, prvni slova, rebelujici dvouleta certice, mlada zena, problemy zivota mezi kamaradkami, plavani, skola, sporty divadla a dalsi zajmove krouzky, ... (... dal to zatim neznam. :-)) Blahopreji mamince k vitezstvi: At se vam vse stejne pekne a vtipne dari!! Mar-29-10    Artar1: Dear <Honza>, Wow! Congratulations on the birth of you new baby daughter, Aneta! I hope you and your wife are doing well. I am very happy for you. This is truly a big event in your life! By the way, I voted and it looks like you won! Was the outcome ever in doubt? Best regards, Artar1 Mar-30-10    keypusher: Honza, I am so sorry, i was on vacation until today and so I did not see your post. But it looks like your beautiful little girl won without me. Congratulations! Apr-02-10    Honza Cervenka: Hi <keypusher> and all other friends of chess and Aneta!:-) If you missed a chance to vote last time, you must not regret it as you have another opportunity right now! Today a poll for the most sympathetic baby of the March has started and it will continue till the next Friday, 12.00 CET. The rules are the same as they were the last time, i.e. it is possible to send one vote after every 60 minutes from one IP address. If you want to support Aneta, just click on http://kladensky.denik.cz/miminka/m..., flag the first name in the grey box on the right side of the screen and hit the <hlasovat> button below....:-) Warm regards, Honza Apr-02-10    whatthefat: Okay, I hlasovated. Apr-02-10    Honza Cervenka: <whatthefat> Many thanks! Apr-02-10    Domdaniel: I'm hlasovating like I never hlasovated before. Aneta's ahead now, but she's up against *twins*. Twins have a big cuteness factor. Apr-02-10    Honza Cervenka: The voting starts quite slowly this time and I would say that the Easter is the main reason of it. Many people here are on holiday and off-line and so other contenders are not able to organize their supporters well or even they are not aware of the voting yet. But it can be changed quickly and especially Karel Tuma from Kladno, who is last now but who got just three weeks ago 767 votes in quiet race with practically no serious opposition, can be very dangerous rival once his supporters will wake up. And so vote early, vote often...:-D Apr-02-10    keypusher: I've hlasovated three times so far. Hope I don't go blind. Apr-03-10    amadeus: got hlasovat? Apr-03-10    Domdaniel: Hlasovat for you, Morovic for me? I must admit that the very idea of voting for new-born babies makes me want to ... well, there is, I think, a phrase in Czech: <Strc prst skrz krk>, 'stick a finger in your throat'. But for a friend like Honza we put aside such futile prejudices. And Aneta *is* cute. But it's good that she's named Aneta rather than Angelska or Grob or Najdorf. Hell hath no fury like CG voters fighting over an opening. OK, back to the hlasovat mines. Apr-03-10    dakgootje: Maybe 'to hlasovat' could become another official chess-word just like kibitzing and zugzwang. I propose with team challenges the vote-option is changed to hlasovat-option. Maybe Karel would get more votes with a smiling-picture. Apr-03-10    chancho: I've Hlasovat quite a number of times. So far, no symptoms of blindness, but I do go into manic laughter...muahahahaha!! Apr-03-10    Honza Cervenka: Thanks for your support. Our lead is growing fluently so far as our opponents are still inactive. But nothing is decided as the end of voting is still far away and in past contests some babies got more than 5000 votes. It seems to be that Easter plays in our hands and that other babies' scarce support arrives mostly from occasional independent voters while their hardcore constituency is not yet aware of the contest. But I would be surprised if they would have not appeared in the poll at all. If they come on Monday or Tuesday even lead five times greater than that we have now can be insufficient in the end. So vote early and vote often!:-D Thank you very much, Honza. Apr-03-10    hms123: <Honza> I have cast about 20 votes so far and will continue through the week. How many cakes do you get this time? Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 24) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 13 OF 24 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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