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Karel Opocensky
K Opocensky 
 

Number of games in database: 710
Years covered: 1912 to 1972
Overall record: +225 -226 =258 (49.9%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database. 1 exhibition game, blitz/rapid, odds game, etc. is excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Queen's Pawn Game (59) 
    A45 D02 E00 E10 D01
 Queen's Gambit Declined (30) 
    D30 D37 D31 D06
 Catalan (26) 
    E04 E01 E06 E09 E02
 Slav (21) 
    D11 D14 D13 D15 D12
 Queen's Indian (21) 
    E17 E16 E18 E19 E15
 Sicilian (20) 
    B21 B83 B95 B45 B51
With the Black pieces:
 Caro-Kann (72) 
    B16 B13 B18 B15 B12
 Sicilian (39) 
    B92 B23 B91 B20 B43
 Queen's Pawn Game (37) 
    D02 A46 A40 A45 D00
 Nimzo Indian (22) 
    E34 E37 E40 E32 E36
 French Defense (21) 
    C01 C17 C00 C07 C13
 Queen's Indian (16) 
    E16 E12 E17 E15 E19
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   T van Scheltinga vs K Opocensky, 1939 0-1
   K Opocensky vs Hromadka, 1931 1-0
   K Opocensky vs J Hrdina, 1913 1-0
   K Opocensky vs A Teller, 1928 1-0
   K Opocensky vs Pachman, 1945 1-0
   A Tikovsky vs K Opocensky, 1954 0-1
   K Opocensky vs Duchamp, 1933 1/2-1/2
   K Opocensky vs K Skalicka, 1936 1-0
   B Rabar vs K Opocensky, 1941 0-1
   Bronstein vs K Opocensky, 1946 1/2-1/2

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   Luhacovice (1935)
   Folkestone Olympiad (1933)
   Nice (1938)
   Teplitz-Schoenau (1937)
   Trebitsch Memorial (1936)
   Schlechter Memorial (1947)
   Duras 60 (1942)
   London A (1946)
   Schlechter Memorial (1949)
   Czechoslovak Championship (1956)
   Czechoslovak Championship (1960)
   Karlovy Vary / Marianske Lazne (1948)
   Prague Olympiad (1931)
   Podebrady (1936)
   Buenos Aires Olympiad Final-A (1939)

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   Vienna 1923 by suenteus po 147
   London A 1946 by Tabanus
   Bad Nauheim 1935 by suenteus po 147
   Bad Nauheim 1935 by Pawn and Two
   Paris 1925 by suenteus po 147
   Parnu 1937 by suenteus po 147


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KAREL OPOCENSKY
(born Feb-07-1892, died Nov-16-1975, 83 years old) Czech Republic

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Karel Opocensky was Czechoslovak champion in 1927, 1929 and 1938. He was 1st= at Arbon 1946 and scored the best individual result on board 4 at the 1933 Olympiad at Folkestone. FIDE awarded Opocensky the IM title in 1950, on its first list of titleholders. He was the chief arbiter at the Botvinnik - Bronstein World Championship Match (1951) and Botvinnik - Smyslov World Championship Match (1954).

Wikipedia article: Karel Opočenský

Last updated: 2017-02-24 07:07:30

 page 1 of 29; games 1-25 of 710  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. K Opocensky vs Spielmann 0-1201912SimulC48 Four Knights
2. K Opocensky vs A Pokorny  1-0411912SK Dobrusky chC49 Four Knights
3. K Opocensky vs J Hrdina 1-0191913Mlada Boleslav-BC49 Four Knights
4. K Opocensky vs A Pokorny  ½-½351913Ceska TrebovaC22 Center Game
5. Schulz vs K Opocensky  0-1341913Berlin-PragueA53 Old Indian
6. K Opocensky vs J Balogh  0-1531913Debrecen-CC49 Four Knights
7. B Steiner vs K Opocensky  ½-½271913Debrecen-CC29 Vienna Gambit
8. K Opocensky vs F Schubert 1-0311913Ceska TrebovaC22 Center Game
9. K Opocensky vs M Gargulak  ½-½611913Mlada Boleslav-BC62 Ruy Lopez, Old Steinitz Defense
10. O Loewenborg vs K Opocensky 0-1331913Mlada Boleslav-BC10 French
11. B Kolousek vs K Opocensky  0-1271913Mlada Boleslav-BA54 Old Indian, Ukrainian Variation, 4.Nf3
12. M Hajn vs K Opocensky  1-0371913Mlada Boleslav-BC77 Ruy Lopez
13. Kalman Kulcsar vs K Opocensky  0-1641913Debrecen-CB12 Caro-Kann Defense
14. K Opocensky vs Karoly Partos  1-0211913Debrecen-CC46 Three Knights
15. Gabor2 Kovacs vs K Opocensky  0-1411913Debrecen-CC50 Giuoco Piano
16. K Opocensky vs Schulz  0-1311913Berlin-PragueB45 Sicilian, Taimanov
17. K Opocensky vs Tartakower  ½-½331914Baden-bei-WienC21 Center Game
18. Schlechter vs K Opocensky ½-½271914Baden-bei-WienC44 King's Pawn Game
19. K Opocensky vs G Nyholm  0-1371914Baden-bei-WienC44 King's Pawn Game
20. P Johner vs K Opocensky 1-0251914Baden-bei-WienC54 Giuoco Piano
21. K Opocensky vs Reti  0-1391914Baden-bei-WienC21 Center Game
22. Hromadka vs K Opocensky  ½-½371914Baden-bei-WienC30 King's Gambit Declined
23. K Opocensky vs Breyer  0-1531914Baden-bei-WienC21 Center Game
24. K Opocensky vs H Fahrni  ½-½631914Baden-bei-WienC21 Center Game
25. Spielmann vs K Opocensky 1-0421914Baden-bei-WienC45 Scotch Game
 page 1 of 29; games 1-25 of 710  PGN Download
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Kibitzer's Corner
Sep-25-05  who: This guy's career wasn't short. Can anyone add more about him than is in the bio.
Sep-26-05  paladin at large: <who> Capablanca wrote about Opocensky 1939 in the context of the chess olympiad: "Opocensky has a marked tendency to complicate the game, and he is not intimidated by the reputation of the opponent".

(from Winter)

Feb-07-06  BIDMONFA: Karel Opocensky

OPOCENSKY, Karel
http://www.bidmonfa.com/opocensky_k...
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Sep-29-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  GrahamClayton: The Opocensky variation of the Queens-Indian Defence is 1. d4 ♘f6 2. c4 e6 3. ♘f3 b6 4. g3 ♗a6 5. ♗g2 ♗e7 6. ♘c3 ♘e4 7. ♗d2

Source: David Hooper and Kenneth Whyld "Oxford Companion to Chess", OUP, 1992

Feb-07-09  nescio: Usually Boleslavsky is mentioned as the originator of de the Sicilian with e7-e5 (M Yudovich Sr. vs Boleslavsky, 1942) and as the player who made it an important system. While he certainly deserves the credit, great strategist that he was, I have heard rumours that Opocensky experimented with it as early as the late 1930's. I have never seen games to back this up though, the earliest I can find is Lokvenc-Opocensky, Prague 1943:

[Event "Prague"]
[Site "Prague"]
[Date "1943.??.??"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Lokvenc,Josef"]
[Black "Opocensky,Karel"]
[Result "1/2"]
[Eco "B92"]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be2 b5 7.Bf3 e5 8.Nb3 Bb7 9.a3 Nbd7 10.0-0 Qc7 11.Be3 Nb6 12.Na5 Nc4 13.Nxc4 Qxc4 14.Qd3 Qxd3 15.cxd3 Be7 16.Rac1 Rc8 17.d4 0-0 18.d5 g6 19.Be2 Nd7 20.Bh6 Rfd8 21.Bg4 Rb8 22.Bxd7 Rxd7 23.Be3 Bd8 24.b4 Rc7 25.Na2 Rbc8 26.Rxc7 Bxc7 27.Rc1 f5 28.f3 Kf7 29.Kf1 Ke7 30.Ke2 Kd7 31.g4 f4 32.Bf2 Ra8 33.Nc3 Bd8 34.h4 Rc8 35.Kd2 Rc4 36.Na2 Rxc1 37.Kxc1 h5 38.g5 Kc7 39.Kd2 Bc8 40.Ke2 Kb7 1/2

Note that Opocensky, contrary to Boleslavsky's 5...Nc6, used the move order 5...a6, which was later popularized by Najdorf.

Feb-07-09  WhiteRook48: these players of the day keep on making me feel dumb
Feb-08-09  AnalyzeThis: Yes, for a time, Opocensky was mentioned in the same sentence as Najdorf for the now well known setup involving ...e5.
Feb-20-09  whiteshark: Picture: Karel Opocensky in 1942 (or 1943) http://www.evrado.com/chess/katalog...
Feb-07-12
Premium Chessgames Member
  Penguincw: R.I.P. Karel Opocensky.
May-18-12  minasina: There reads anachronism in the bio. There wasn't any Czech Republic before 1993. There were Czechoslovakia, and apparently he was many times Czechoslovakian Chess Champion?
Sep-08-12  Karpova: Opocensky won the Prague City Championship in 1934 with 8.0/9 ahead of Karjakin with 7.0, Zitta with 6.5, Rejdal with 6.0 and Pelikan with 5.5, etc.

From page 253 of the 1934 'Neue Wiener Schachzeitung'

Sep-08-12  Karpova: The 11th Kautsky Memorial in Prague in 1934:

1. Opocensky 11.0
2. Dr. Treybal 9.5
3. Kopecek 8.5
4. Karjakin 8.0

5-6. Chodera 7.5
5-6. Dobias 7.5
7-8. Zitta 6.5
7-8. Flohr (Salomon's brother) 6.5
9. F. Treybal 6.0
10. Dr. Skalicka 5.5
11-12. Koska 4.0
11-12. Dietze 4.0
13-14. Rosenbaum 3.5
13-14. Petkiewitsch 3.5

From page 375 of the 1934 'Neue Wiener Schachzeitung'

Dec-13-13  Karpova: <Der Ustredni jednota ceskoslovenskysch sachistu v Praze ersucht uns um Veröffentlichung nachstehender Zeilen: Laut Beschluss des "Verbandes der tschechoslowakischen Schachspieler" erkennt dieser Meister Opocensky nicht als seinen offiziellen Vertreter an und wurde Herr Opocensky vom Oesterreichischen Schachverbande privat eingeladen.> (The ... requests us to publish the following lines: By virtue of decision of the "Association of Czechoslovakian Chessplayers", Master Opocensky is not being recognized as their official representative and so Mr. Opocensky was invited privately by the Austrian Chess Federation.)

Source: Page 350 of the December 1923 'Neue Wiener Schach-Zeitung'

Feb-07-16  TheFocus: Happy birthday, Karel Opocensky.
Jan-28-17
Premium Chessgames Member
  offramp: Another incredible chess lookalike! He is a dead ringer for Crackerjack's Peter Glaze.
Feb-07-19  diagonal: In a personal note, Vlastimil Hort honors Karel Opocensky: https://en.chessbase.com/post/vlast...
Sep-11-20  vonKrolock: Nice 1938

<"Pour la première fois un tournoi international était organisé pendant le championnat de France avec des invités et des étrangers vivant en France">

1 Opocensky,Karel 7,5
2 Reilly,Brian 7
3 Koserak,W 6,5
4 Plomion,G 6
5 Spacenkopf,Jacques 6
6 Krasner,Marc 4
7 Sutherland,M 3
8 Schirrer,A 2
9 Griess,E 1,5
10 Fuchs,G 1,5

http://heritageechecsfra.free.fr/19...

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