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 23 OF 24 ·  Later Kibitzing> May-26-22    Honza Cervenka: <sachistu> "-ar" are last two letters of Sajtar's surname and it was free for use then unlike "js" (used by Jan Sefc). Jul-25-22    MissScarlett: Are you there? Aug-01-22    belgradegambit: Is there anyone with an older member since day than Honza? Aug-02-22    stone free or die: <belgradegambit> that's an interesting question. I thought I once had a list of some of the more significant early members of <CG>, but I just spent 5-10 minutes looking for it with no success. I think I used Wayback to look at very early kibitzing history on <CG>, and culled out the names I recognized. Easy to redo - but I won't be doing so just now. We can agree though that <Honza> is one of the early's. Aug-08-22    Honza Cervenka: <belgradegambit: Is there anyone with an older member since day than Honza?> I am here nearly 20 years since September 2002. There were many people here already then but many of them are inactive for a long time and some of them are unfortunately dead. And some of them like User: refutor occasionally pop up after long time just to say hello to old friends. But quite a lot of people are here since 2003 or 2004. Aug-09-22    Benzol: Well I for one am glad that Honza was and is still here. How are you doing old friend ? 😊 Aug-10-22    Honza Cervenka: <Benzol> I am still alive, and that is quite satisfactory. Aug-14-22    Ron: Here's a suggestion for Missed Chance: E Kharous vs Tarig Elther Mohammed, 2015 Jan-19-23    Honza Cervenka: White to move wins. click for larger view For solution see the first comment in J Cervenka vs J Kovar, 2010 (I missed that over the board). Jan-19-23    waddayaplay: Oh you are still here. I was trying to remember all the power users from when I was active. I wonder what happened to this site? When I was here it seemed to be getting bigger, with GMs joining, but now it's like it has been in decline for 5-10 years. Jan-20-23    Honza Cervenka: <I wonder what happened to this site?> The main problem is that both co-founders of this site, Alberto A Artidiello and Daniel Freeman, unfortunatelly passed away in 2015 and 2018. But the site is still alive. Jan-21-23    waddayaplay: Oh that sucks. I always enjoyed chessgames.com being an active user. It's weird when you leave a community and come back to a sort of ghost town. Jan-22-23    technical draw: <Is there anyone with an older member since day than Honza?> I'll be here 20 years in November. Hello, <Honza>. We used to chat in the early days but nowadays I just stick mainly to my forum. (Except when I want to bother <WannaBe>!) Jan-31-23    Bishoprick: I'm in Prague and or in Blatna at least once a year. I am probably much older than you, but it might be fun to get together. In the 70's I reached a USCF rating of 2026, but now I'm only around 1800, but still having fun with chess. My favorite players used to be Tarrasch, E.Lasker, and Rubenstein, and in more modern times, Fischer and Karpov. But I would say that young Carlsen is also fun to watch. Mar-11-23    Honza Cervenka: Just for record one of my games played today. [Event "Blitz game"] [Site "lichess.com"] [Date "2023.03.11"] [Round "?"] [White "Jan Cervenka"] [Black "NN"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C05"] [Opening "French"] [Variation "Tarrasch, Closed, 7.Ne2"] [TimeControl "5+3"] [Termination "normal"] [PlyCount "69"] 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. Bd3 c5 6. c3 Nc6 7. Ne2 Qb6 8. Nf3 f6 9. exf6 Nxf6 10. O-O Be7 11. a3 O-O 12. b4 cxd4 13. cxd4 Bd7 14. b5 Na5 15. a4 Rac8 16. Ne5 Nc4 17. Bf4 Nb2 18. Nxd7 Nxd7 19. Bxh7+ Kxh7 20. Qb1+ Kg8 21. Qxb2 Nf6 22. a5 Qd8 23. b6 axb6 24. axb6 Qe8 25. Ra7 Qh5 26. Rxb7 Bd8 27. Rxg7+ Kxg7 28. b7 Rb8 29. Bxb8 Nd7 30. Bd6 Rh8 31. h3 e5 32. dxe5 Kf7 33. Nf4 Qg5 34. e6+ Kg8 35. exd7 1-0 Jun-22-23    Honza Cervenka: White to play (of course, as he is in check) wins. click for larger view Jun-23-23    Stonehenge: That's a very interesting puzzle. Obviously not Kh3 but the other two options... Stockfish knows the answer but I still don't understand it :( Jun-23-23    Honza Cervenka: <Stonehenge> The problem with 1.Kh1(?) is, that it gives black sufficient defense after 1...Kf8! =. That was the move, which was actually played in a real game, and it led just to a draw. Fuller answer you can find at Hort vs O Kinnmark, 1961. Sep-08-23    Obvious Troll: <Honza Cervenka> Hey, Mr. Winawer, you got reincarnated! Must've done something right in your previous life. Not bad, not bad. Jan-04-24    thegoodanarchist: <belgradegambit: Is there anyone with an older member since day than Honza?> He has bested me by about 11 months. Jan-04-24    thegoodanarchist: <Honza Cervenka: <Benzol> I am still alive, and that is quite satisfactory.> Please, sir, who is your avatar? I want to say Sigmund Freud but that can't possibly be true. Jan-04-24    thegoodanarchist: <belgradegambit: Is there anyone with an older member since day than Honza?> Aha, my friend User: Pawntificator joined before <Honza C>! <pawntificator Member since Aug-12-02> Unfortunately, he hasn't been around these parts in more than 9 years: <...Last seen Jul-21-14> Jan-04-24    thegoodanarchist: Check out this: Sneaky chessforum Jan-10-24    Honza Cervenka: <Please, sir, who is your avatar?> Simon Winawer Jan-13-24    thegoodanarchist: You play the French defense, then? Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 24) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 23 OF 24 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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