David Navara wins his 12th Czech Champion title!

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GM David Navara clinched the 2023 Czech Chess Championship to become the National Chess Champion of Czech Republic for the 12th time in his career!

Navara scored unbeaten 7.5/9 points to emerge as the sole Winner of the event, point and a half ahead of the runner-up IM Tomas Kraus who claimed silver with 6 points. Two-time Czech Champion GM Vlastimil Babula (1993, 2008) won bronze medal scoring 5.5 points.

Czech Chess Championship 2023 – final results:

Rk.		Name	FED	RtgI	Pts.	TB1
1	GM	Navara, David	CZE	2678	7.5	29.8
2	IM	Kraus, Tomáš	CZE	2473	6	23
3	GM	Babula, Vlastimil	CZE	2533	5.5	22.3
4	GM	Krejčí, Jan	CZE	2517	5	21.5
5	GM	Štoček, Jiří	CZE	2525	5	21.3
6	GM	Šimáček, Pavel	CZE	2466	3.5	14.5
7	IM	Zwardoń, Vojtěch	CZE	2494	3.5	13.5
8	GM	Petr, Martin	CZE	2478	3.5	12.8
9	FM	Finěk, Václav	CZE	2410	3	10.8
10	GM	Plát, Vojtěch	CZE	2535	2.5	11.3

The 2023 Czech Chess Championship took place from 9-17 May in Bystrice nad Pernstejnem. The event was played as a 10-player round-robin tournament, with time control of 90 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes to the end of the game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move one.