Zbyněk Hráček

Zbyněk Hráček, 2014
Association	Czech Republic
Born	September 9, 1970 Uherské Hradiště , Czechoslovakia
title	International Master (1990) Grand Master (1993)
Current  Elo rating	2563 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2650 (January 1996)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Zbyněk Hráček (born September 9, 1970 in Uherské Hradiště , Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech chess grandmaster .

Life

Zbyněk Hráček, 2010

Hráček became International Master in 1990 and Grand Master in 1993. He learned to play chess from his uncle at the age of five. At the Junior European Championships in Arnhem 1989/90 he was third. Hráček won in Altensteig in 1995 and Lippstadt in 2000. In 1994 he won the national championship of the Czech Republic. Hráček took part in the 2013 World Chess Cup , but failed in the first round to Viktor Bologan .

In February 2015 it was ranked third in the Czech ranking.

National team

Hráček has been a member of the Czechoslovakian national team since 1990, then of the Czech national team and has participated in 14 chess Olympiads and 11 European team championships.

societies

With Tomi Nyback for Bremen in the 2018 Bundesliga finals in Berlin

At the European Club Cup 1990 Hráček went to Univerzita Brno . In the Czech extra league, Hráček played in the 1992/93 season for TJ Jiskra Staré Město , where he had already competed in the Czechoslovak team championship the previous year, and from 1993 to 2000 at ŠK Dům armády Prague , with whom he became champions in 1996 , 1997 and 1999 and took part in the European Club Cup 1996, from 2000 to 2006 at the ŠK Hagemann Opava (from 2004 ŠK Lokomotiva Brno ), with whom he became champion in 2002 and 2004 , from 2006 to 2017 at the 1. Novoborský ŠK , with whom he won 2008 , 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 and 2017 champion, since 2017 he has been playing for GASCO Pardubice . With the 1st Novoborský ŠK he also took part in the European Club Cup seven times (2008 and 2010 to 2015), winning with the team in 2013, finishing second in 2014 and third in 2011, while he was on the sixth board in the 2012 individual ranking and in 2014 took second place on the first reserve board.

Hráček has been playing for Werder Bremen in the German federal chess league since 1994 and was German champions with the team in the 2004/05 season . He also took part in the European Club Cup with Werder Bremen in 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2009. In addition, Hráček was already in the Slovak Extraliga (1993/94 and from 1999 to 2002 for the ŠK Slovan Bratislava , with which he was champion in 2001 and 2002 , from 2002 to 2005 and from 2006 to 2008 for the ŠK HOFFER Komárno , with the He became champion in 2003 and 2007 , in 2008/09 for K CERO NŠK Nitra , 2010 to 2013 for ŠK Trenčín , from 2014 to 2016 for ŠO ŠKM Angelus Stará Ľubovňa , with whom he became Slovak team champion in 2015 and 2016 , in the 2017 / 18 for Reinter Snina and in the 2019/20 season for CVČ Mladosť VIX Žilina ), Austrian Bundesliga or State League (1999/2000 for SK Hietzing , 2012/13 for SK Zwettl ), in the Dutch master class (1999/2000 for Rotterdam ), in the French Top 16 (2006 to 2008 for Vandœuvre-Echecs ), in the Hungarian NL I. Szabó László csoport (since the 2014/15 season for Szombathelyi MÁV Haladás VSE ), the Polish Ekstraliga (2009 and 2011 for LKS Pasjonat Dankowice , 2013 for ASSz Miedź Leg nica and 2019 for the Szachowy Silesia Racibórz club ) and the Spanish División de Honor (2007 and 2008 for CA Reverté Albox).

Game example

Ľubomír Ftáčnik - Zbyněk Hráček
Czech Extra League , December 1, 2006

	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H
8th									8th
7th									7th
6th									6th
5									5
4th									4th
3									3
2									2
1									1
	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H

Black to move

The diagram position originated from the King's Indian Defense . The black pieces are directed against the white king, which offsets the material disadvantage of a pawn.
1.… Qh5xh2 +!
Because of the open position of the king, Black can sacrifice the queen , as this puts the white king in a mate attack :
2. Rg2xh2 Ng4xh2 + 3. Kg1 – f2 Nf6 – g4 + 4. Kf2 – g3 Ng4 – e3 + 5. Kg3 – f2 Rg7 – g2 +

There follows a mate on the next move by Rh8 – h3 or Nh2 – f3, so Ftáčnik gave up.

Web links

Commons : Zbyněk Hráček  - collection of images

• Replayable chess games by Zbyněk Hráček on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CV at sach.cz (Czech)
2. ↑ Markus Stangl : Gregorij Serper European Champion . JugendSchach issue 1/1990, pp. 3–5 (report, table and games)
3. ↑ Chessbase Megabase 2007
4. ^ History of the Czech championship
5. ↑ Zbyněk Hráček's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
6. ↑ 42nd Olympiad Baku 2016 Open team line-up with individual results - Open Czech Republic. In: chess-results.com. September 13, 2016, accessed June 15, 2019 . 
7. ↑ 43rd Olympiad Batumi 2018 Open team line-up with individual results - Open Czech Republic. In: chess-results.com. October 5, 2018, accessed June 15, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Zbyněk Hráček's results at the European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
9. ↑ ^{a b c d} Zbyněk Hráček's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
10. ↑ Zbyněk Hráček's results in the Czechoslovak team championship on olimpbase.org (English)
11. ↑ Zbyněk Hráček's results in the Czech extra league on olimpbase.org (English)
12. ↑ Zbyněk Hráček's results in the Slovak Extraliga on olimpbase.org (English)
13. ↑ Zbyněk Hráček's results at Polish team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
14. ↑ Zbyněk Hráček's results at Spanish team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
15. ↑ Note: The whole game online with original commentary from the grandmaster (Czech)