Zbyněk Hráček (born 9 September 1970) is a Czech
chess
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grandmaster. He was
Czech Chess Champion in 1994, won the Zonal tournament Odorhea 1995 and the tournaments Pardubice (Open) 1993, Altensteig 1995 and Lippstadt 2000.
Career
Hráček played for
Czechoslovakia
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at the
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 FIDE Onli ...
s of 1990 and 1992, and for the Czech Republic at the Olympiads of 1994, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2014 and in the
European Team Chess Championship
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s of 1997, 1999, 2003, 2005 and 2007.
In 1996 (January - June list), Hracek was in the Elo Top Twenty of the world and the leading Czech player. In the November 2009
FIDE
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list, he has an
Elo rating
The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in zero-sum games such as chess or esports. It is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian-American chess master and physics professor.
The Elo system wa ...
of 2624, making him the Czech Republic's number three.
References
External links
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Zbyněk Hráček at 365Chess.comPhoto on Czech Chess Federation Web site
1970 births
Living people
People from Uherské Hradiště
Chess Grandmasters
Czech chess players
Chess Olympiad competitors
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