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My Chess World - David Navara (K-5838)
K-5838
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Nine-time Czech champion David Navara, 35, became a grandmaster in 2002 at the age of sixteen.
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| Language versions | English |
| Author / Authors | David Navara |
| Publisher | Thinkers Publishing |
| Year of Publication | 1st edition 2020 |
| Pages | 616 |
| ISBN | 9789492510808 |
| Hardcover | No |
| Paperback | Yes |
| Downloadable | No |
| Width | 17 cm / 6.69 inch |
| Height | 23.5 cm / 9.25 inch |
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Amongst his many achievements are:
1 st= at the Ordix Open rapid tournament in Mainz, Germany, in 2007. World Cup quarterfinalist in 2011. Gold medal winner on 2 nd board at the 2012 Chess Olympiad in Istanbul. Gold medallist with the Nový Bor team at the 2013 European Club Cup in Rhodes, Greece. Winner of the European Blitz Championship in Wroc'b3aw, Poland, in 2014. Silver medallist in the European Individual Championship in Jerusalem in 2015.
This book is not a pure (auto)biography, rather a games collection. It consists mainly of interesting high-class games played by me, including many losses. Most of the games are preceded by accompanying texts, which vary from essays to tournament reports. The title of the book might seem presumptuous, but I wanted to show how I see or experience the competitions without denying the chess worlds of others. While the texts are mostly light and subjective, at the same time I tried hard to stick to the facts and provide some food for thought.
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Content
007 KEY TO SYMBOLS
009 TRANSLATOR’S NOTE
011 PREAMBLE — THE DIFFICULT LIFE OF THE ANNOTATOR
013 LIFE ON SIXTY-FOUR SQUARES — MY CHESS BIOGRAPHY
013 According to reliable sources
013 Born a kangaroo
015 Trainers and clubs
017 For the homeland
018 Gold never loses its lustre
019 Play Magnus
019 Not all titles are the same
019 I’ll get it right sooner or later!
020 Sense and sensibility
020 A gentle warning
023 BLOG PAST ITS SELL-BY DATE
029 The significance of a/the title
043 Not only for me
051 Half (a) moon in Turkey
061 Happy birthday!
085 From beginning to mate
092 My first super-tournament
103 The better game, the worse tournament result?
116 In the labyrinth of variations
127 My interesting life
138 The birth of the Grand Prix
149 A dodgy season
157 Crazy journalists and disreputable chess players
170 Fascination
178 Sea hedgehogs
199 My rapid defeat
205 Logical deductions
225 Off the beaten path
235 Great opening, dodgy ending
246 Reggio Emilia draw rules
258 Relaxation and other consolations
267 An inconspicuous star
280 A level tournament in a level country
294 Winning pens
305 Porridge and ice cream in Barcelona
314 Swans on the top floor
326 Paid holiday
334 Part of the fixtures in Nový Bor
343 And then there were four
355 Unpleasant opponents
363 You learn from your mistakes
383 Riding the wave
394 A miraculous success
409 Women rock the Rock
422 Sport and other problems
431 Eight small losses and one great victory
448 Illiterate notes
460 Country on which the sun never sets
487 From marathon to a sprint, or he who hesitates goes hungry!
496 Magician in Jerusalem, or the External European Championship
506 On Karl Marx and locking a bishop
507 History repeats itself
516 From March rankings to July’s king march
539 A round on each free day
552 Losing pens
567 The whole world over the board
581 Missing the point
593 First lady in Biel
604 The enforcer does the business
619 Sicilian Ostrava
627 CHESS POEMS
628 My Chess World
629 Yesterday
631 A FEW CONCLUDING WORDS
633 AFTERWORD
635 BIBLIOGRAPHY