Pavel Blatný (born 22 June 1968 in

Brno Brno ( , ; german: Brünn ) is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers, Brno has about 380,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the Czech Republic ...

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) is a Czech

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grandmaster.

Career

Blatny tied with Josef Klinger for second in the 1985

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(which was won by

Maxim Dlugy Maxim Alexandrovich Dlugy (born January 29, 1966) is an American chess player with the FIDE title of Grandmaster. He was born in Moscow, USSR, and arrived with his family in the United States in 1977. He was awarded the International Master t ...

). He became an

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in 1986. He was the champion of

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in 1988 and 1990, and earned the grandmaster title in 1993. He won the New York Open Tournament in 1995, and was the champion of the

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in 1997 and 2000. Also in 2000, he was one of eight grandmasters who tied for first in the

World Open chess tournament The World Open chess tournament is an annual open chess tournament played in most editions in Philadelphia and some editions in New York City. The inaugural event was a huge success played in New York in 1973 with 732 participants, and was won by Wa ...

, which was won by

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after a blitz playoff. His other first-place finishes include at the 1998 National Open, in which he tied for first with

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and

Evgeny Pigusov Evgeny Pigusov (russian: Евгений Пигусов; born March 31, 1961) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1987. He competed in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2002, where he reached the third ro ...

. He also shared first place at the 2000 Chesswise International Tournament with Ehlvest, and at the 38th American Open in 2002 with

Yury Shulman Yuri Shulman ( be, Юрый Маркавіч Шульман, russian: Ю́рий Ма́ркович Шу́льман; born April 29, 1975 in Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, USSR) is a Belarusian American chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandma ...

Opening repertoire

Blatny often plays the

London System The London System, also known as the Mason Variation, is an in chess where White opens with 1.d4 but does not play the Queen's Gambit, instead opting to rapidly develop the . This often results in a . The London System can be used against virt ...

in an attacking style, and, unlike most people who play this system, does not play h2-h3. Instead, he tends to castle queenside and try to launch an attack on his opponent's king.

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