Martin Mrva

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Martin Mrva (born December 12, 1971 in Prešov ) is a Slovak chess master and chess journalist.

Career

At the championships of Slovakia in 1988 in Trnava he won the silver medal and a year later in Michalovce the gold. Mrva won the First Saturday tournament in Budapest in 1993 . He won the 1997 Tatry Open in Tatranská Lomnica . Mrva won in Piešťany in 2004 and shared first place with Josef Přibyl in the Tatry Open in Tatranské Zruby in 2005 .

Mrva is the publisher of the chess magazine Šach Revue and also runs the chess web portals www.64.sk and www.c7c5.com . Mrva also created the CD Učim sa hrať šach (I'm learning to play chess). In 2005 Mrva was appointed grandmaster , he had met the required standards in June 2000 at the zone tournament in Budapest, in the Slovak team championship 2002/03 and in May 2005 at the Mitropacup in Steinbrunn .

His Elo number is 2417 (as of February 2015), his highest Elo number of 2512 he reached in April 2005.

National team

Mrva took part in the 1994 , 1996 , 2000 and 2004 Chess Olympiads with the Slovak team . He also took part in the Mitropacup in 1995, 1997, 2004 and 2005, his greatest success being second place with the Slovak team in 2004.

societies

In the Slovak Extraliga , Mrva played from 1994 to 2005 for ŠK Tatran Prešov (with whom he played in the Česko-Slovenská celostátní liga, the top division of the Czechoslovak team championship, in the 1991/92 season), with whom he was Slovak team champion in 2000 and took part in the European Club Cup , from 2005 to 2007 for sachy.sk Košice , from 2008 to 2010 for TJ INBEST Dunajov , in the 2010/11 season for BŠK Edymax Bardejov , in the 2011/12 season for the MŠK KdV Kežmarok and since the 2015/16 season for REINTER Humenné . In the Czech Extraliga Mrva played in the 1993/94 season for the ŠK CSABI Slavia Havířov , from 1995 to 1997 for the ŠK H. Fuchs Ostrava , in the 1999/2000 season for the ŠK DP Holdia Prague and in the 2004/05 season for the ŠK Sokol Kolín . In the top Hungarian league, the NB I. Szabó László csoport, he played in the 2006/07 season for Edelényi Városi Sportegyesület .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ChessBase Megabase 2008
  2. IM CK Pressburg 2004 (English)
  3. Open Tatry 2005 (English)
  4. GM application to FIDE (English)
  5. Martin Mrva's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  6. Martin Mrva's results at Mitropacups on olimpbase.org (English)
  7. Martin Mrvas results at Czechoslovak team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  8. Martin Mrvas results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
  9. Martin Mrvas results in the Slovak Extraliga on olimpbase.org (English)
  10. Martin Mrva's results in the Czech Extraliga on olimpbase.org (English)