František Blatný (2 April 1933 – 16 December 2015), was a

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chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

player,

Czechoslovak Chess Championship The Czechoslovak National Chess Championship was a chess competition to determine the best Czechoslovak chess player. History The first Czechoslovak championships were held in Prague in 1919. After a break caused by World War II, the championsh ...

medalist (1962, 1964),

European Team Chess Championship The European Team Championship (often abbreviated in texts and games databases as ''ETC'') is an international team chess event, eligible for the participation of European nations whose chess federations are located in zones 1.1 to 1.9. This more ...

team medalist (1957).

Biography

František Blatný for the first time took part in 1954. In 1962 he became a bronze medalist, and two years later, in 1964, he shared first place with

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, but lost to him the additional match for the title of champion. From 1965 to May 2011, he managed the chess section in the oldest newspaper

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''Rovnost''. František Blatný played for Czechoslovakia: * in

Chess Olympiad The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations of the world compete. FIDE organises the tournament and selects the host nation. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, FIDE held an Online Chess Olympiad in 2020 and ...

s participated 2 times (1962-1964); * in

s participated 2 times (1957, 1970) and won team bronze medal (1957); * in World Student Team Chess Championships participated 4 times (1955, 1957-1959) and won 2 team bronze medal (1957, 1958). He was a father of grandmaster

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František Blatný
chess games at 365chess.com 1933 births 2015 deaths Czechoslovak chess players Czech chess players Chess Olympiad competitors {{CzechRepublic-chess-bio-stub