David Navara
David Navara ( born March 27, 1985 in Prague) is a Czech chess champion of the world elite.
Navara learned to play chess at age six. In the development of his talent, he found support for significant coach, including Luděk Pachman and Vlastimil Jansa. Navara won at the Czech Junior Championships in his age category from 1993 to 1995 and represented as the best Czech teenager his home at numerous international youth championships: 1997, he was at the world championships U14 Third, 1998 in category U16 World Championship runner. 1999, at the age of 14, he became an International Master. In 2001, he played for the Czech Republic at the European Team Championship in Leon and scored with 7 of 9 outstanding results. In 2002 he was awarded the Grandmaster title awarded in 2003 he won the Open Polanica -Zdrój. 2004 and 2005 Navara won the national championship of the Czech Republic. In 2005, he played a short match over two games in Prague against former world champion Anatoly Karpov in a draw 1-1, both games ended in a draw. In August 2007 Navara won the rapid chess open the Chess Classic in Mainz, against 61 other grandmasters in a total of 762 participants. In 2009, he came in March at the European Championship in Budva in 5th place, lost in May a rapid chess match against Vasyl Ivanchuk with 2.5-5.5 and retired in November at the World Chess Cup 2009 in the third round against Sergey Karjakin from. In 2010 he finished in March at the European Championship in Rijeka number 22, lost in April a rapid chess match against Judit Polgár 2-6 and won in May in Ostrava with 8.5 points from 9 games superior to the Czech National Championship. In June 2011, he won in Prague a match against Sergei Movsesjan with 3.5 to 2.5 ( 1 = 5). In the World Chess Cup 2011 in Khanty-Mansiysk Navara came to the quarterfinals where he retired against Alexander Grishchuk. Previously, it had come in Navaras match against Oleksandr Mojissejenko to a remarkable incident. Navara had inadvertently touched a figure and Moiseenko was out first that Navara had to draw this figure. The referee ruled in favor of Navara, Moiseenko accepted this and continued the game. In the further course Navara reached a clear winning position, then offered to draw, however, because he did not want to win in spite of a possible rule violation by the game. Both players received a fair price.
Navara played from 2006 to 2008 in the German Chess Bundesliga for TSV Bindlach shareholder, since 2013 he plays for the SV Mülheim- Nord. In the British Four Nations Chess League Navara played from 2005 to 2007 for the Slough Sharks, in the French team championship since 2005 he plays for Mulhouse Philidor. In the Polish team championship Navara plays since 2005 for SzK Hetman Szopienice and was with this in 2008 and 2010 Polish team champion. Also in Czech and Greek leagues came Navara used.
In 2002 he played his first of six chess Olympiads, and came to board three of the Czech team at 7.5 points from 11 games. At the Chess Olympiad in Turin in 2006, he scored 8.5 out of 12 excellent results on the first board, which also earned him a high Elo gain of nearly 21 points. At the Chess Olympiad in Dresden in 2008, he again played on the first board for the Czech Republic and came to 6.5 points over 10 games. At the Chess Olympiad in 2010, he scored on first board 6 points over 10 games. At the Chess Olympiad 2012 in Istanbul, he was the best player on the second board. From 2001 to 2013 Navara participated with the Czech team in seven European Team Championships, he reached it in 2001 and 2003, the second best the third-best result on the second board.
Navara finished a study of logic at the Charles University in Prague in July 2010 with a Master 's degree. Since then, he is a professional chess player. In May 2012, he was as the best Czech player ranked 38 in the world rankings.