Vojtěch Plát (pictured above) and Karolina Pilsova won the Czech chess championship that took place in Zlin, a city in southeastern Moravia. Both events were ten-player round-robins with classical time control running from September 11-19 (women) and September 17-26 (open).
With two top-rated Czech players (David Navara and Viktor Laznicka) missing in the open competition, Vojtěch Plát had a great showing. The 27-year old GM from Prostejov scored 6½ points, earned the second national title in his career and became the only unbeaten participant in the tournament.
GMs Štěpán Žilka and Jan Krejčí finished just a half point behind the champion. Žilka who had a slightly better Sonneborn-Berger took silver, whearas Krejčí had to settle for bronze.
Final standings open:
1 | GM | Plat, Vojtech | 2536 | 6½ |
2 | GM | Zilka, Stepan | 2570 | 6 |
3 | GM | Krejci, Jan | 2539 | 6 |
4 | GM | Babula, Vlastimil | 2561 | 5 |
5 | GM | Stocek, Jiri | 2584 | 4½ |
6 | GM | Nguyen Thai Dai Van | 2594 | 4 |
7 | IM | Zwardon, Vojtech | 2498 | 4 |
8 | GM | Petr, Martin | 2508 | 3½ |
9 | GM | Polak, Tomas | 2545 | 3 |
10 | FM | Mladek, Richard | 2361 | 2½ |
By an odd coincidence, in the women’s tournament, the champion Karolina Pilsova also netted 6½ out of 9 and suffered no defeats either. Karin Nemcova and Magdalena Miturova tied for the second place with the former taking silver thanks to better tiebreaks.
Final standings women:
1 | WGM | Pilsová, Karolína | 2280 | 6½ |
2 | Němcová, Karin | 2137 | 5½ | |
3 | WIM | Miturová, Magdaléna | 2219 | 5½ |
4 | WGM | Petrová, Kristýna | 2285 | 5 |
5 | WIM | Richterová, Nataša | 2160 | 5 |
6 | WIM | Novosadová, Kristýna | 2107 | 4½ |
7 | WIM | Kaňáková, Natálie | 2180 | 4 |
8 | WGM | Kulovaná, Eva | 2164 | 3½ |
9 | WFM | Laurincová, Kristýna | 2070 | 3 |
10 | WGM | Sikorová, Olga | 2205 | 2½ |
Photo: Vladimír Jagr
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