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 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 20 OF 24 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jan-28-15    Chessical: Pardon the intrusion, but I am looking for material for Game Collection: Prague Candidates Reserve Playoff (1956) I was wondering if you have access to any relevant Czech sources. I am trying to find contemporary reports, and the dates of the games. Thank you. Apr-14-15    ToTheDeath: One of the best kibitzers on this site, cheers to you! May-08-15    Honza Cervenka: <Chessical> The match was quite well covered even by daily press then but unfortunately I don't have access to online archives. May-09-15    Chessical: Thank you for taking the time to look. In the end, with the help of <Tabanus>, we were able to look up "Rudé Právo" on line. Here is our finished effort: Prague Candidates Reserve Playoff (1956) Dec-25-15    Knight13: <Honza Cervenka> Merry Christmas. Jan-16-16    Domdaniel: Hej, Honza/Jan ... I'm asking your advice, because you're a fine analyst, a good OTB player, an experienced CC player, and - after all these years on CG - a friend. I'm still playing FIDE-rated team tournaments in Ireland, although my rating has gradually dropped from 2000+ to 1800 or so. I play in some weekend tournaments also, but I am no longer confident of getting my rating back up to where I feel it belongs. So, I am thinking of mostly giving up OTB chess, and taking up Correspondendence Chess. What do you think? Is this still a viable option, in the age of engines? I played some CC as a junior in the 1970s, and did quite well - but that was before strong engines. A couple of players who had similar OTB ratings to mine in those days have since become CC Masters. Plus I have been involved in some of the CG team games, such as those vs Arno Nickel. Do you play CC at a competitive level? I think I could do reasonably well ... but I'm not sure about the apparent level of engine use (cheating?). Have you any advice for me? Thanks, Dom/G. Jan-18-16    Ron: Hi Honza, Missed chance by your countryman :( Navara vs A Giri, 2016 Jan-30-16    Honza Cervenka: <Domdaniel> I played my last serious CC game back in 2002. It was too much time consuming and also quite expensive activity then for me. Of course, since then the CC changed a lot with arrival of really strong engines and now it is more centaur than correspondence chess. I don't have problem with that, and I believe that one day I will return to CC played by e-mail but right now I am too much busy for doing that seriously. But I am playing for fun some online chess, and I still try to play OTB in team competitions to help my friends from my chess club (though with quite mixed results and very bad start of the current season). May-08-16    sachistu: Hi <Honza Cervenka>! I was wondering if you might have time to look at the introductory comments to a game in the publication Ceské listy sachové (1897)? There is an online copy available on chessarch.com (on the library tab) 1897 v2 page 95-96. The typical venue, year and player information is apparently hidden in the introduction. From the limited portion I have been able to translate, there is apparently a discussion of the war of 1469 between King George (Jiri) of Podebrady and King Matthias (Matyas) of Bohemia. Exactly what, if anything, it has to do with the game escapes me. It was apparently a consultation game and the names of the players mentioned seem to be of that contemporary era (188n-189n). I'm hoping you can translate enough of the text to determine the venue, the year and players (or cities) for both sides involved. I noticed from one of your kibitz you did not have access to online archives. If you are not able to access the chessarch site, perhaps I can extract the pages to send you. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. Jun-06-16    Honza Cervenka: Nice little chess joke: click for larger view White to move wins. Jun-06-16    Honza Cervenka: <sachistu> I don't see it. If you can download it in pdf or any similar format, you can send it to me via e-mail <jan.cervenka@soc.cas.cz> Jun-14-16    sachistu: Hi <jan>. Have been away since June 2nd and just returned. The online (chessarch) copy is embedded in 3 volumes (1896 1897 1898) and thus not so easy to find. I will have to work on a way to pull out that section as the PDF (60Mb) is too big to send via my mail server. As soon as I can create something workable, I will send it to you. Jul-10-16    Honza Cervenka: <sachistu> The game was a composition of Dr. Jan Dobrusky and it was an allegory of the defeat and surrender of Matthias Corvinus by George of Podìbrady at Vilémov in February 1469 during so-called Bohemian War 1468-1478. The game was performed live by members of Czech Sokol and Czech Chess Association in historical costumes during a national exhibition. 1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. Qxd4 Nc6 4. Qd1 d6 5. a3 Ne5 6. Ne2 c6 7. Ng3 Qa5+ 8. b4 Qc7 9. f4 Nd7 10. Qh5 g6 11. Qf3 Ne7 12. Bb2 Rg8 13. Nc3 Bg7 14. Bc4 Nb6 15. Bb3 Bd7 16. a4 a6 17. Rd1 Rd8 18. Rd2 c5 19. e5 dxe5 20. bxc5 Qxc5 21. Nce4 Qc7 22. fxe5 Nf5 23. a5 Nc8 24. Nxf5 gxf5 25. Bxf7+ Kxf7 26. Qh5+ Ke7 27. Ba3+ Ke6 28. Ng5+ Kxe5 29. Bb2+ Kf4 30. Rf1+ Ke3 31. Qf3# 1-0 Jul-10-16    zhouyundong: click for larger view 17round! Jul-10-16    zhouyundong: 1. C5F5 h7g7 2. H5H6 g7h6 3. E7F8 g3g7 4. F5F6 h6h5 5. D3F4 h5g4 6. F6G7 g4f3 7. G7C3 f3f4 8. F8H6 f4f5 9. C3A5 f5e4 10. A5A4 e4f5 11. A4F4 f5e6 12. F4G4 e6e7 13. H6G5 e7f7 14. G4F5 f7g7 15. F5F6 g7h7 16. F6F7 h7h8 17. D7D8Q Jul-10-16    sachistu: Thanks <Honza Cervenka>! Jul-11-16    zhouyundong: where to talk about continuous check's endgames? Sep-14-17    jinkinson: <Honza> W/regard to the problem you posted on June 6, 2016, there is no solution that lets white win is there? Nov-16-17    Honza Cervenka: <jinkinson: <Honza> W/regard to the problem you posted on June 6, 2016, there is no solution that lets white win is there?> click for larger view Well, there is a solution with a series of under-promotion: 1.h8=N g3 2.Ng6 fxg6 3.f7 g5 4.f8=N g4 5.Ne6 dxe6 6.d7 e5 7.d8=N e4 8.Nc6 bxc6 9.b7 c5 10.b8=N c4 11.Nc6 c3 12.Nb4# Dec-31-17    Honza Cervenka: Black to move, white wins: click for larger view Dec-31-17    Honza Cervenka: Here is a solution: 1... e1=N 2.Rxe1 dxe1=N 3.Rxe1 fxe1=N 4.Nf3 d2 5.Nxe1 dxe1=N 6.Kb6 d3 7.Bxg3 d2 8.Bxe1 dxe1=N 9.a5 e2 10.a6 Nf3 11.Bxg2 e1=N 12.Bh3 Nd3 13.Bc8 Nc5 14.Bb7+ Nxb7 15.axb7# And as bonus for those who can understand Russian an awesome story by Dmitry Dzhangirov https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIK... Happy New Year! :-) Mar-13-18    Honza Cervenka: White to move wins: click for larger view Mar-13-18    zborris8: <White to move wins:> 1. g7 Yeah? No. I don't think this works. The Black king will somehow turn into a knight and escape. Mar-14-18    Honza Cervenka: <zborris8: <White to move wins:> 1. g7 Yeah?> The first move is correct. Of course, 1....Qxg7 is forced reply. And what now?:-) Mar-15-18    zborris8: <And what now?:-)> The purpose of <1. g7> was for me to safeguard the bishop on h1 for the discovered check. <1...Qxg7 2. d6+>. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 24) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 20 OF 24 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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