Honza Cervenka Member since Sep-04-02 · Last seen Jan-10-26 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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Jan-09-26 J Cervenka vs P Kopta, 2026   Honza Cervenka: If 57...Ke4, then 58.Ke1! f3 59.Bg3 f2+ 60.Bxf2 exf2+ 61.Kxf2 +-      Jan-07-26 Short vs Kramnik, 1996   Honza Cervenka: It looks like white forgot to insert 45.Bxg7+ with idea 45...Kh7 46.Qf4 +-. Or did he miss that after 46.Qh6+ black has 46...Qh7? Anyway, instead of 42...Bh6(?) black should have played 42...Qf5 43.Rh2 Bf4 with decisive attack. 41...Bxe3 was also inaccurate for eventual ...      Jan-06-26 Kramnik vs Short, 1995    Honza Cervenka: Ugly 20...Bc8 was the only chance to avoid quick disaster, though white's advantage would be still great and probably decisive anyway.      Jan-06-26 Capablanca vs Lasker, 1924   Honza Cervenka: <which begs the question if Honza was here on the 30th June why did he not wish me a happy birthday?> Mea culpa!      Jan-06-26 Smyslov vs G Ilivitsky, 1952   Honza Cervenka: Instead of 14...Nd4 it was correct to play 14...gxf5. Also 15...gxf5 would have been a lesser evil. 16...Bxh6 was another mistake but the position of black was then bad anyway.      Jan-06-26 T Luther vs O Touzane, 1990   Honza Cervenka: This is quite strange coincidence. But first 10 moves are just a standard opening line, and most of moves after black's three consecutive mistakes (14...Nd4, 15...Bxe4 and 16...Bxh6) are more or less forced or at least fairly obvious.      Jan-05-26 A Pomar vs Hort, 1965   Honza Cervenka: Instead of 15.Nf6+ white should have played 15.Qxf7+ Kxf7 16.Ng5+ Kg8 17.Nxh3 exd4 18.Nxd4 Nxd4 19.exd4 Bxd4 20.Rb1 with roughly equal game.      Jan-02-26 N Theodorou vs L Dominguez Perez, 2025    Honza Cervenka: 37.Rb7! was a lovely shot. But black's position was already precarious anyway. For example, 36...f6 37.Qg3 Rc6 38.h6 Qe7 39.Nxe6 +-, or 36...Nf5 37.Bxf5 exf5 38.h6 f6 39.Qg3 Rb8 40.Nd7!! +-      Jan-02-26 A Elo vs Fischer, 1957   Honza Cervenka: 42.c4 was absolutely incomprehensible move giving black practical chance to play for win. 46.Kg3 was decisive mistake but it was just a logical consequence of the bad decision made four moves earlier.      Jan-02-26 Goutham Krishna H vs M A Tabatabaei, 2025    Honza Cervenka: 30...Bxc4 was necessary. Black was badly spanked for his too passive approach to this game.

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 19 OF 24 ·  Later Kibitzing> Feb-04-11    Honza Cervenka: <chesstoplay> Thanks!:-D Feb-22-11    cu8sfan: I'm sad to see you lose to some random baby. :-) I hope your little girl still gives you and your wife many joys in life. :-) Mar-15-11    Honza Cervenka: <cu8sfan> There is no reason to be sad. In fact, the Internet voting was just one part of the race. The second part of the competition was a voting with coupons printed in the newspaper. The final ranking was determined through the sum of the order of voting on the Internet and the order of voting by newspaper coupons. We were the fifth on the Internet but we took the second place in the other part of the race and it was sufficient for taking of the second place in whole competition because our main rivals (with exception of Alex Loukota who won both parts) badly underestimated the voting by coupons.:-) Mar-15-11    gus inn: Seems like you will all survive :0) Mar-16-11    morfishine: We haven't spoken before, but I'd like to say its a pleasure to have you on Team White for this exercise. Hopefully, it will be a fruitful affair. For that I have no doubt. I am impressed with your rating(s). As for myself, I am working hard every day analyzing and scratching towards 1900. I have a goal of 2000 by years end. Lets show them a thing or two. :) Morf Jul-13-11    Hesam7: <Honza> I came across some old comment of yours in Ivanchuk vs Topalov, 1995 and I have posted some analysis. The tactics were pretty fun! Jul-29-11    MartijnvanWingerden: Hello Ms Cervenka. I noted that you play on the International Correspondence Chess Server so maybe you can help me. I registered me a few weeks ago with my email-address on the ICCF site but i don't have the activation mail yet. So i tryed with my other email-address but that didn't work too. Do you know what the problem is? Martijn van Wingerden Aug-18-11    WiseWizard: <Honza> You seem like the right person to ask on this site, what would you say is the difference between analysis and calculation? Feb-26-12    David2009: Hi Honza, the 'beautiful baby' voting has long since disappeared into the past, but may I wish your daughter Aneta "Many Happy Returns" on her second birthday 15 March. Warm regards, David Mar-09-12    Honza Cervenka: Thanks, <David2009>! Mar-12-12    LoveThatJoker: <Honza Cervenka> I enjoyed your analysis regarding 13...fxg2+! on J Schulten vs Kieseritzky, 1844 Kindly swing by my forum and share with us your favourite/most memorable B. Fischer game. Hope to see you there! LTJ Mar-17-12    LoveThatJoker: <Honza Cervenka> Thanks for Fischer vs Stein, 1967! It is truly amazing. I got back to you on my forum and asked you a question there. LTJ Mar-22-12    LoveThatJoker: <Honza Cervenka> CG made Fischer vs Stein, 1967 GOTD today! Talk about zeitgeist, eh? LTJ May-02-12    LoveThatJoker: <Honza Cervenka> Someone replied to your post on this game: V Makogonov vs Keres, 1939 By the way, I have a question to ask you: Do you know where I can find additional infomation on Giovanni Leonardo Di Bona da Cutri? Also, would you happen to know why all the games between him and Ruy Lopez have an incomplete score? LTJ May-18-12    Honza Cervenka: <LoveThatJoker> I think that it was not a habit of the time to record complete scores of games, even those played between known masters. Chess manuscripts written by then chess masters usually for their patrons were focused mostly on the opening (along with endgames or chess problems) and that is why only some opening parts of games survived. May-19-12    LoveThatJoker: <Honza Cervenka> Thank you for the kind reply! Here is a hidden gem that I hope you will enjoy very much: V Inkiov vs Psakhis, 1982 LTJ Aug-04-12    Benzol: <Honza> I've been trying to get date information on Game Collection: Mährisch-Ostrau 1923 so that a tournament page can be created for it. <thomastonk> has kindly provided information about rounds 1 to 10. Is there any chance you might know the dates rounds 11, 12 and 13 were played on? Thanks in advance. :) Aug-04-12    Benzol: <Honza> By consensus we think it should like this Game Collection: Mährisch-Ostrau 1923 Hopefully it's OK now. :) Oct-09-12    TheTamale: Hi, Honza. For years I have enjoyed your comments. I have visited Prague, but alas, never Stredokluky. Greetings from a friend in the US! Dec-24-12    wordfunph: Merry Christmas! Jan-05-13    kudubux: Hello <Honza>! I was wondering, what ever happened to that baby photo contest your daughter joined in? Did she win? Feb-03-13    Honza Cervenka: <kudubux: Hello <Honza>! I was wondering, what ever happened to that baby photo contest your daughter joined in? Did she win?> No, we took the second place. Jul-28-13    offramp: I had a very strange, quick dream last night. I dreamt that < Honza Cervenka>'s real name was Richard Brierley and he was the son of an Australian Test cricketer named Walter Brierley. How strange is the human mind! Nov-28-14    MarkFinan: I don't know if your username is your real name but there's a chess app game in the Google play store with your name on it. I kept seeing it and thinking I know that name from somewhere! Maybe it's nothing to do with you and your name is pretty common in chess circles (or squares! Get it? Lol. I'm becoming a square, don't sweat, lol) but every time I see that app I think of your username here. ✌ Dec-25-14    wordfunph: <Honza> Merry Christmas! Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 24) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 19 OF 24 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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