David Navara
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David Navara, Warsaw 2013
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| Country | Czech Republic |
| Born |
March 27, 1985 Prague, Czechoslovakia |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating | 2728 (March 2017) |
| Peak rating | 2751 (May 2015) |
| Peak ranking | No. 13 (October 2006) |
David Navara (born 27 March 1985) is a Czech chess Grandmaster, the highest-ranked player of his country. He won seven times the Czech Chess Championship (in 2004, 2005, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015) and the European Blitz Chess Championship of 2014. As of the May 2015 FIDE rating list Navara achieved a personal high with an Elo rating of 2751 and was ranked number 14 in the world.
His career progressed very fast under coaches like Miloslav Vanka, IM Josef Přibyl, and GMs Luděk Pachman and Vlastimil Jansa, as he won several world medals in youth categories. In 2001, aged 16, he got 7/9 in the European Team Championships. One year later, three days before his 17th birthday, he received the Grandmaster title, next year he won the open tournament in Polanica Zdrój.
Ranked 14th, he finished sixth in the 2004 Fifth European Individual Chess Championship in Antalya with 7.5 points (+5−2=5), including a draw against the eventual champion Vassily Ivanchuk.
In 2005, Navara participated in the World Chess Cup, where he was eliminated by Predrag Nikolić in the first round.
He was very successful in the 37th Chess Olympiad 2006, having 8.5 points from 12 games against world-class competition.
Navara played several matches in Prague, drawing with Anatoly Karpov (+0−0=2) in 2005 and Boris Gelfand (+1−1=2) in 2006 and winning against Nigel Short (+3−0=3) in 2007 and Sergei Movsesian (+1−0=5) in 2011.
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