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Professional CV<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Jan B\u00edlek *1959<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The first fully professional chess coach, theoretician and analyst <\/span>v<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>in the Czech Republic <\/span>since the early 1990s. <\/span>The most successful coach <\/span>of children<\/span>, <\/span>youth<\/span> and juniors in<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>in the Czech Republic<\/span> z<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>terms of the results of his pupils, whom he has coached from their first steps<\/span>\u016f<\/span> of their chess careers<\/span>.<\/span> (<\/span>B<\/span>without the consent of the previous coach <\/span>he fundamentally <\/span>does not take over <\/span>d<\/span>any pupils under his care, <\/span>t<\/span>this <\/span>behaviour <\/span>he considers to be <\/span>a kind <\/span>unethical<\/span>him<\/span> enterprise<\/span>\u00e1<\/span>her)<\/span>. He trained <\/span>hundreds <\/span>regional <\/span>champions and medallists <\/span>of the Bohemian Championship, <\/span>dozens of medallists of official Czechoslovak and later Czech Republic championships, several dozen masters <\/span>of CSFR and CR,<\/span> approximately the same number of young r<\/span>representatives of World and European championships. <\/span>V<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>under his care <\/span>about 25 years of professional activity <\/span>nearly a thousand children and youth of various talents, interest in chess, intelligence, <\/span>diligence<\/span> and character. <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n He has also trained <\/span>(<\/span>a <\/span>later <\/span>he cooperated<\/span> or consulted )<\/span> FIDE masters, m<\/span>e<\/span>international masters and grandmasters<\/span>.<\/span> He trains and conducts consultations with<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>several dozen adult chess players.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n He has been actively playing chess since 1972<\/span>. <\/span>His<\/span> \u201achild<\/span>\u00e1<\/span>\u2018 career<\/span>\u00e9<\/span>r<\/span>a<\/span> was launched<\/span> v<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>in 1973 with a draw <\/span>v <\/span>in a simultaneous game against then the world\u2019s second or third highest-rated player Mikhail Tal<\/span>.<\/span> Z<\/span>he finished <\/span>he <\/span>then <\/span>7<\/span>. in . place at the Czechoslovak junior championship<\/span>s<\/span>of Czechoslovakia<\/span> v<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>in 1978<\/span> v<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Bojnice.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Later he preferred team competitions<\/span>,<\/span> when <\/span>almost <\/span>10 years in<\/span>e<\/span>dl <\/span>on the 1st board <\/span>young <\/span>Pilsen team <\/span>WCh<\/span>E Pilsen in<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>various <\/span>league competitions <\/span>Czechoslovakia. <\/span>Here he also managed in the<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>eighties to achieve <\/span>a technical <\/span>norm for the title of master<\/span>a<\/span> of sport. Due to<\/span>mainly <\/span>z<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>family reasons, he could not participate in tournaments abroad at the end of the 1980s.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>zahrani\u010d\u00ed.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n At the beginning of the 1990s, he decided on a career as a professional coach, theorist<\/span>a<\/span> and analyst<\/span>, namely<\/span> at the expense of active participation in tournaments, whereby this choice was in a way forced by deteriorating health condition. <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In agreement with<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>one of <\/span>the most respected<\/span>ch<\/span> coaches<\/span>\u016f<\/span> in the world<\/span>,<\/span> the late Mark Izrailevich Dvoretsky holds the view that it is not possible to fully and properly devote oneself to coaching work<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>and at the same time participate in<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>demanding tournaments and competitions<\/span> or <\/span>for example <\/span>engage in organisational duties. (<\/span>J<\/span>It is mainly<\/span> about <\/span>the<\/span>so-called coach<\/span>semi-professional<\/span> poloprofesion\u00e1<\/span>l<\/span>y<\/span>, who only earn extra income from training their pupils <\/span>n<\/span>and livelihood<\/span>.<\/span>)<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n He is an advocate of the line <\/span>of training pupils according to the historical development of chess <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>(R\u00e9ti: first we must learn to combine, so that later we can also play positionally!)<\/span>,<\/span> he does not recognise \u201amodern\u2018 training methods<\/span>,<\/span> whether in<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>the general sense (permissive upbringing<\/span> of children<\/span>, anti-authoritarian upbringing, <\/span>inclusive<\/span> education, identifying with<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Western models of schooling<\/span>) or chess training (waiting for the opponent\u2019s mistake, focusing only<\/span>z<\/span>on a minimum of one\u2019s own mistakes<\/span>\u011b<\/span>made<\/span>...<\/span>). He prefers<\/span>a<\/span> creative and maximalist approach when searching for the optimal solution to a position on the chessboard<\/span> a<\/span> h<\/span>deep understanding<\/span>n<\/span>of the game.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n He published for a long time<\/span> a series <\/span>of specialised <\/span>articles concerning <\/span>especially <\/span>the selection of opening repertoire for less experienced chess players, which appeared in<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>the magazine<\/span>o<\/span>p<\/span>i<\/span>s<\/span>u<\/span> \u0160achInfo <\/span>regularly in<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>the years 2004-2006<\/span>. <\/span>The author of many coaching materials, for example on<\/span>the pages <\/span>of the now <\/span>defunct<\/span> website <\/span>www.chesslady.com<\/span><\/a>.<\/span> V<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>currently on his own internal<\/span>e<\/span>web pages <\/span>www.skolasachu.com<\/span><\/a> he has published a large number of chess works<\/span>