The Czech Blitz Championship 2025 will take place on December 20 in Pardubice, Czech Republic. It is a 15-round Swiss system tournament with a time control of 3 min + 2 sec/move. For more events from the Czech Republic, check out The European Chess Calendar, which is part of The Chess Calendar.
More than 250 players will participate in the tournament, and the top-seeded among them are GM David Navara (2635), IM Jakub Půlpán (2538), IM Taron Shagbazyan (2510), GM Petr Hába (2491), GM Vlastimil Babula (2485), IM Václav Finěk (2481), IM Jan Rubeš (2458), GM Tomáš Polák (2441), GM Štěpán Žilka (2423), IM Petr Gnojek (2419), IM Richard Mládek (2414), IM Vojtěch Zwardoń (2402), IM Jan Vykouk (2394), IM Martin Červený (2386), FM Vlastimil Babula (2377), IM Štěpán Hrbek (2373), FM Bayarjavkhlan Delgerdalai (2371), FM Martin Hollan (2369), IM Pavel Čech (2369), GM Vítězslav Rašík (2360). Scroll down for the full participants list.
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Czech Blitz Championship 2025 Participants
| No. | Name | FED | RtgI | RtgN | |
| 1 | GM | NAVARA David | CZE | 2635 | 2652 |
| 2 | IM | PŮLPÁN Jakub | CZE | 2538 | 2388 |
| 3 | IM | SHAGBAZYAN Taron | CZE | 2510 | 0 |
| 4 | GM | HÁBA Petr | CZE | 2491 | 2384 |
| 5 | GM | BABULA st. Vlastimil | CZE | 2485 | 2511 |
| 6 | IM | FINĚK Václav | CZE | 2481 | 2505 |
| 7 | IM | RUBEŠ Jan | CZE | 2458 | 2422 |
| 8 | GM | POLÁK Tomáš | CZE | 2441 | 2389 |
| 9 | GM | ŽILKA Štěpán | CZE | 2423 | 2528 |
| 10 | IM | GNOJEK Petr | CZE | 2419 | 2388 |
| 11 | IM | MLÁDEK Richard | CZE | 2414 | 2402 |
| 12 | IM | ZWARDOŃ Vojtěch | CZE | 2402 | 2433 |
| 13 | IM | VYKOUK Jan | CZE | 2394 | 2515 |
| 14 | IM | ČERVENÝ Martin | CZE | 2386 | 2270 |
| 15 | FM | BABULA ml. Vlastimil | CZE | 2377 | 2342 |
| 16 | IM | HRBEK Štěpán | CZE | 2373 | 2467 |
| 17 | FM | DELGERDALAI Bayarjavkhlan | CZE | 2371 | 2330 |
| 18 | FM | HOLLAN Martin | CZE | 2369 | 2348 |
| 19 | IM | ČECH Pavel | CZE | 2369 | 2276 |
| 20 | GM | RAŠÍK Vítězslav | CZE | 2360 | 2364 |
| 21 | FM | CALETKA Radomír | CZE | 2348 | 2164 |
| 22 | IM | PIESIK Piotr | CZE | 2328 | 2383 |
| 23 | IM | STALMACH Richard | CZE | 2325 | 2407 |
| 24 | FM | JIRÁSEK Pavel | CZE | 2322 | 2296 |
| 25 | FM | VRÁNA Jan | CZE | 2319 | 2305 |
| 26 | IM | CHYTILEK Roman | CZE | 2314 | 2276 |
| 27 | IM | MIKEŠ Jan | CZE | 2298 | 2330 |
| 28 | IM | NECKÁŘ Lubomír | CZE | 2294 | 2232 |
| 29 | FM | HAVELKA Josef | CZE | 2291 | 2345 |
| 30 | CM | BALÁČEK Tadeáš | CZE | 2278 | 2343 |
| 31 | IM | ŽŮREK Milan | CZE | 2276 | 2279 |
| 32 | IM | ROUBALÍK Jakub | CZE | 2261 | 2226 |
| 33 | FM | HOLLAN Petr | CZE | 2259 | 2229 |
| 34 | IM | KONOPKA Michal | CZE | 2258 | 2316 |
| 35 | FM | WINTER Ondřej | CZE | 2252 | 2323 |
| 36 | FM | SHARASHENIDZE Akaki | CZE | 2244 | 2299 |
| 37 | FM | JAREŠ Michal | CZE | 2240 | 2363 |
| 38 | IM | KOUROUSIS Epameinondas | CZE | 2240 | 2323 |
| 39 | KÁRNÍK Pavel | CZE | 2240 | 2194 | |
| 40 | IM | ŠVANDA Ondřej | CZE | 2233 | 2322 |
| 41 | VESELÝ Libor | CZE | 2231 | 2147 | |
| 42 | FM | STINKA Jakub | CZE | 2225 | 2371 |
| 43 | FM | GLOSER David | CZE | 2212 | 2321 |
| 44 | IM | ZPĚVÁK Pavel | CZE | 2212 | 2219 |
| 45 | FM | BREJNÍK Gustav | CZE | 2208 | 2192 |
| 46 | IM | TRIČKOV Vasil | CZE | 2201 | 2258 |
| 47 | ORESKÝ Jan | CZE | 2197 | 2182 | |
| 48 | FM | JUN Rudolf | CZE | 2194 | 2263 |
| 49 | FM | CUHRA Martin | CZE | 2189 | 2213 |
| 50 | FM | HÁK David | CZE | 2180 | 2259 |
| 51 | MACHÁČEK Jan | CZE | 2178 | 2110 | |
| 52 | FM | WALEK Petr | CZE | 2175 | 2272 |
| 53 | MARŠÁLEK Zdenek | CZE | 2172 | 2139 | |
| 54 | FM | SABOL Marian | CZE | 2165 | 2154 |
| 55 | FM | TOMAN Ondřej | CZE | 2164 | 2284 |
| 56 | ŠEDIVÝ Martin | CZE | 2164 | 2107 | |
| 57 | FM | ŘÍHA Vojtěch | CZE | 2160 | 2265 |
| 58 | HRUŠKA Jan | CZE | 2157 | 2057 | |
| 59 | VILÍMEK Vít | CZE | 2146 | 2179 | |
| 60 | FM | BOKHNAK Tymofii | CZE | 2123 | 2251 |
| 61 | ŠLAMPA Jan | CZE | 2122 | 2169 | |
| 62 | JANOUŠ Marek | CZE | 2118 | 2194 | |
| 63 | KRUPIČKA Josef | CZE | 2118 | 2038 | |
| 64 | FM | BROŽKA Karel | CZE | 2115 | 2267 |
| 65 | FM | PAŘÍZEK Vojtěch | CZE | 2115 | 2172 |
| 66 | CM | URBAN Zdeněk | CZE | 2115 | 2162 |
| 67 | FM | LUDVÍK Tomáš | CZE | 2110 | 2242 |
| 68 | JEZBERA Jiří | CZE | 2104 | 2019 | |
| 69 | FM | TOPENČÍK Bruno | CZE | 2099 | 2224 |
| 70 | IM | PŘIBYL Josef | CZE | 2098 | 2168 |
| 71 | FM | JEDLIČKA Aleš | CZE | 2094 | 2160 |
| 72 | LIHOTSKÝ Lukáš | CZE | 2090 | 2087 | |
| 73 | STOČEK Martin | CZE | 2087 | 2110 | |
| 74 | ZELBA Lukáš | CZE | 2082 | 2070 | |
| 75 | CM | BUREŠ Vít | CZE | 2081 | 2231 |
| 76 | CM | ŽIDEK Václav | CZE | 2073 | 1982 |
| 77 | FM | VRÁNA František | CZE | 2071 | 2071 |
| 78 | KAPUSTA Petr | CZE | 2070 | 2086 | |
| 79 | KREDL Karel | CZE | 2065 | 2007 | |
| 80 | ŠAFAŘÍK Jakub | CZE | 2061 | 2124 | |
| 81 | NEŠPŮREK Jakub | CZE | 2061 | 1879 | |
| 82 | SKALSKÝ Alexandr | CZE | 2059 | 2120 | |
| 83 | ROUBAL Matyáš | CZE | 2058 | 1845 | |
| 84 | KOLBUŠOVSKÝ Michal | CZE | 2052 | 1881 | |
| 85 | ŠEDÝ Pavel | CZE | 2051 | 2049 | |
| 86 | HRUBEŠ Pavel | CZE | 2050 | 2131 | |
| 87 | DUDA Antonín | CZE | 2047 | 2082 | |
| 88 | HOŠEK Martin | CZE | 2046 | 2131 | |
| 89 | HOSTIČKA František | CZE | 2041 | 1974 | |
| 90 | FM | MUDRÁK Josef | CZE | 2037 | 2097 |
| 91 | FM | BUJNOCH Radek | CZE | 2034 | 2265 |
| 92 | STARÝ Vojtěch | CZE | 2032 | 2038 | |
| 93 | MYDLÁŘ Matěj | CZE | 2031 | 2026 | |
| 94 | BROŽ Petr | CZE | 2030 | 1901 | |
| 95 | SLANEC Jan | CZE | 2029 | 1896 | |
| 96 | GARABIK Marek | CZE | 2027 | 1975 | |
| 97 | JIROUŠEK Jan | CZE | 2025 | 1987 | |
| 98 | BLAŽEK Matěj | CZE | 2018 | 1945 | |
| 99 | KUCHAŘ Matěj | CZE | 2011 | 2020 | |
| 100 | HORÁČEK Michal | CZE | 2010 | 2064 | |
| 101 | VEČEŘA Pavel | CZE | 2009 | 1957 | |
| 102 | PTÁČEK Luboš | CZE | 2005 | 2029 | |
| 103 | ŠOTEK Šimon | CZE | 2005 | 2011 | |
| 104 | VELÍM Vojtěch | CZE | 2000 | 2120 | |
| 105 | DAVÍDEK Zdeněk | CZE | 1996 | 2119 | |
| 106 | CM | STRAŠIL Pavel | CZE | 1996 | 2014 |
| 107 | LAUŠMAN Petr | CZE | 1995 | 1932 | |
| 108 | ZEDNÍČEK Filip | CZE | 1993 | 1969 | |
| 109 | ČERNÝ Michael | CZE | 1993 | 1943 | |
| 110 | VÁVRA Michal | CZE | 1992 | 1982 | |
| 111 | CM | POPOV Roman | CZE | 1992 | 1955 |
| 112 | POGORELSKIY Boris | CZE | 1992 | 1925 | |
| 113 | HOLÝ Filip | CZE | 1990 | 2102 | |
| 114 | RUDLOF Adam | CZE | 1985 | 1993 | |
| 115 | ŽIDEK Damian | CZE | 1983 | 1927 | |
| 116 | RET Adam Josef | CZE | 1981 | 2095 | |
| 117 | MARTIROSYAN David | CZE | 1979 | 2135 | |
| 118 | CHERNYY Andrey | CZE | 1977 | 1961 | |
| 119 | ROUSEK Jan | CZE | 1975 | 2063 | |
| 120 | SLOVÁK Pavel | CZE | 1974 | 1995 | |
| 121 | SVOBODA Miloš | CZE | 1973 | 2056 | |
| 122 | MOJŽÍŠ Martin | CZE | 1966 | 1964 | |
| 123 | SIKORA Lukáš | CZE | 1966 | 1822 | |
| 124 | STARÝ Šimon | CZE | 1963 | 2021 | |
| 125 | TURNER Radek | CZE | 1963 | 2012 | |
| 126 | STRAKA Vojtěch | CZE | 1961 | 1984 | |
| 127 | TREJBAL st. Jindřich | CZE | 1960 | 1895 | |
| 128 | PADEVĚT Pavel | CZE | 1958 | 1780 | |
| 129 | FM | PACL Václav | CZE | 1956 | 1964 |
| 130 | HOLUB Adam | CZE | 1954 | 1919 | |
| 131 | FM | MOJŽÍŠ Jaroslav | CZE | 1952 | 2029 |
| 132 | KUNC Jan | CZE | 1951 | 1965 | |
| 133 | BLAŽEK Tomáš | CZE | 1943 | 1944 | |
| 134 | KOLOMAZNÍK Jan | CZE | 1942 | 1963 | |
| 135 | LANČARIČ Tomáš | CZE | 1939 | 1997 | |
| 136 | ZÁDRAPA Radek | CZE | 1938 | 2067 | |
| 137 | FIALA Jan | CZE | 1937 | 1875 | |
| 138 | ŠULC Jakub | CZE | 1936 | 2125 | |
| 139 | MIGALKO Dmitriy | CZE | 1933 | 1851 | |
| 140 | MÜLLER David | CZE | 1931 | 1896 | |
| 141 | DUBSKÝ Lukáš | CZE | 1931 | 1725 | |
| 142 | JUCHELKA Marek | CZE | 1927 | 1867 | |
| 143 | POLICAR Martin | CZE | 1927 | 1847 | |
| 144 | TICHÝ Miroslav | CZE | 1924 | 1914 | |
| 145 | SOUČEK Andrej | CZE | 1921 | 1970 | |
| 146 | STEINBAUER Sebastián | CZE | 1921 | 1933 | |
| 147 | SIEBENBÜRGER Vlastimil | CZE | 1918 | 1877 | |
| 148 | ZEMAN Daniel | CZE | 1918 | 1765 | |
| 149 | VODIČKA Pavel | CZE | 1917 | 1911 | |
| 150 | MÁDLE Robin | CZE | 1916 | 1909 | |
| 151 | URBÁNEK Štěpán | CZE | 1913 | 1989 | |
| 152 | JOUKL Zdeněk | CZE | 1908 | 2020 | |
| 153 | NOVOTNÝ Dominik | CZE | 1907 | 1974 | |
| 154 | RYBÁČEK Martin | CZE | 1906 | 1966 | |
| 155 | ZRŮST Lukáš | CZE | 1902 | 1985 | |
| 156 | BOFF Ondřej | CZE | 1902 | 1873 | |
| 157 | HRONEK Ondřej | CZE | 1900 | 1879 | |
| 158 | HONCHAROV Makar | CZE | 1898 | 2024 | |
| 159 | GEMSA Pavel | CZE | 1898 | 1951 | |
| 160 | KOLÁŘ Edvard | CZE | 1895 | 1987 | |
| 161 | KASTNER Oldřich | CZE | 1893 | 2022 | |
| 162 | CM | CHRZ Pavel | CZE | 1891 | 1960 |
| 163 | BENEDA Marek | CZE | 1884 | 1761 | |
| 164 | BABULA Matěj | CZE | 1882 | 2100 | |
| 165 | DANĚK Pavel | CZE | 1881 | 1825 | |
| 166 | ŠIC Vojtěch | CZE | 1881 | 1578 | |
| 167 | MARTINKOVIČ Adam | CZE | 1880 | 1872 | |
| 168 | KŘÍŽ Denis | CZE | 1880 | 1743 | |
| 169 | PEROUTKA Šimon | CZE | 1879 | 1823 | |
| 170 | DUŠÁNEK Filip | CZE | 1879 | 1601 | |
| 171 | DÖME Michal | CZE | 1875 | 1922 | |
| 172 | ŠTEFAN Jaroslav | CZE | 1873 | 1900 | |
| 173 | ČÍŽEK Petr | CZE | 1872 | 1877 | |
| 174 | MOTL Matyáš | CZE | 1867 | 1705 | |
| 175 | MARTÍNEK Filip | CZE | 1862 | 1608 | |
| 176 | PÁSEK Josef | CZE | 1861 | 1791 | |
| 177 | SEIDL Václav | CZE | 1860 | 1836 | |
| 178 | ŠTICH Jan | CZE | 1855 | 1884 | |
| 179 | ŽÁČEK Petr | CZE | 1855 | 1833 | |
| 180 | SVÍŽENSKÝ Luboš | CZE | 1848 | 1812 | |
| 181 | ŠKUTHAN Radek | CZE | 1848 | 1775 | |
| 182 | ŠKODA Jiří | CZE | 1844 | 1866 | |
| 183 | ŠOTEK Matěj | CZE | 1841 | 1681 | |
| 184 | ŠUSTR Radomil | CZE | 1840 | 1823 | |
| 185 | HRDLIČKA Jan | CZE | 1840 | 1628 | |
| 186 | STARÝ Lukáš | CZE | 1833 | 1922 | |
| 187 | VANĚK Jakub | CZE | 1829 | 1776 | |
| 188 | BJOLEK Jan | CZE | 1825 | 1925 | |
| 189 | LANGMAIER Michal | CZE | 1824 | 1944 | |
| 190 | ŽEMLIČKA Vít | CZE | 1819 | 2023 | |
| 191 | SLÁDEK Jaroslav | CZE | 1819 | 1751 | |
| 192 | SIMAJCHL Adam | CZE | 1817 | 1749 | |
| 193 | ROUS Dominik | CZE | 1817 | 1704 | |
| 194 | CHUDEK Lubomír | CZE | 1805 | 1786 | |
| 195 | BOFF Vojtěch | CZE | 1805 | 1567 | |
| 196 | BŽOCH Martin | CZE | 1795 | 1414 | |
| 197 | SVOBODA Daniel | CZE | 1793 | 1920 | |
| 198 | SLAVÍK Petr | CZE | 1788 | 1688 | |
| 199 | PEJŘIMOVSKÝ Tadeáš Rubel | CZE | 1785 | 1828 | |
| 200 | LISIK Miroslav | CZE | 1785 | 1737 | |
| 201 | BÁRA Jan | CZE | 1782 | 1913 | |
| 202 | SKULA David | CZE | 1782 | 1465 | |
| 203 | VYSLYŠEL Petr | CZE | 1780 | 1846 | |
| 204 | KRÁSA Marek | CZE | 1774 | 1637 | |
| 205 | BOBRAKOV-TIMOŠKIN Denis | CZE | 1773 | 1257 | |
| 206 | FOŘT Hugo | CZE | 1769 | 1590 | |
| 207 | BLAŽEK Pavel | CZE | 1765 | 1771 | |
| 208 | JANDÁČEK Kryštof | CZE | 1765 | 1701 | |
| 209 | MORÁVEK Jakub | CZE | 1764 | 1654 | |
| 210 | ŠIGUT Ondřej | CZE | 1758 | 1976 | |
| 211 | JANEČEK Miroslav | CZE | 1756 | 1877 | |
| 212 | FIALA Jan | CZE | 1756 | 1738 | |
| 213 | DLOUHÝ Martin | CZE | 1748 | 1428 | |
| 214 | MUŽÍK Roman | CZE | 1745 | 1801 | |
| 215 | MARINOV Peter | CZE | 1742 | 1738 | |
| 216 | MACHO Michal | CZE | 1737 | 1680 | |
| 217 | BUVALIČ Josef | CZE | 1737 | 1641 | |
| 218 | HAIDENKO Mykola | CZE | 1732 | 1743 | |
| 219 | SVOBODA Petr | CZE | 1725 | 1799 | |
| 220 | TREJBAL ml. Jindřich | CZE | 1723 | 1615 | |
| 221 | FRANTSEV Iegor | CZE | 1719 | 1713 | |
| 222 | NOVÁK Josef Jan | CZE | 1714 | 1816 | |
| 223 | ZPĚVÁK Pavel | CZE | 1712 | 1668 | |
| 224 | MACEK Oldřich | CZE | 1711 | 1708 | |
| 225 | JUN Robert | CZE | 1707 | 1679 | |
| 226 | STANĚK Petr | CZE | 1701 | 0 | |
| 227 | ANTOŠ Jakub | CZE | 1692 | 1343 | |
| 228 | MÁLEK Daniel | CZE | 1685 | 1772 | |
| 229 | VOLF Felix | CZE | 1683 | 1408 | |
| 230 | DUDEK Vladimír | CZE | 1679 | 1673 | |
| 231 | OSINA Jaromír | CZE | 1677 | 1704 | |
| 232 | ROČŇÁK Michal | CZE | 1676 | 1504 | |
| 233 | KOUPIL Štěpán | CZE | 1672 | 1693 | |
| 234 | BÁRA ml. Josef | CZE | 1671 | 1556 | |
| 235 | BÁRA st. Josef | CZE | 1671 | 1521 | |
| 236 | LIZÚCH Lukáš | CZE | 1670 | 1707 | |
| 237 | SMÉKAL Lukáš | CZE | 1670 | 1682 | |
| 238 | KOVÁCS Ivan | CZE | 1652 | 1387 | |
| 239 | ROČŇÁK Zdeněk | CZE | 1650 | 1415 | |
| 240 | PLECHÁČEK Matěj | CZE | 1644 | 1488 | |
| 241 | TRUNEČKA Tomáš | CZE | 1644 | 1250 | |
| 242 | JUCHELKA Petr | CZE | 1634 | 1681 | |
| 243 | ZÁVŮRKA Vladimír | CZE | 1628 | 1632 | |
| 244 | BABULA Tomáš | CZE | 1626 | 1593 | |
| 245 | MAIWALD Arnošt | CZE | 1612 | 1397 | |
| 246 | ŠTĚPNIČKA Filip | CZE | 1602 | 1371 | |
| 247 | URBÁNEK Michal | CZE | 1586 | 1077 | |
| 248 | PRŮKA Vojtěch | CZE | 1570 | 1163 | |
| 249 | KRAUS Petr | CZE | 1556 | 1243 | |
| 250 | RAWLINGS Benjamin | CZE | 1548 | 1647 | |
| 251 | ŠEVČÍK Filip | CZE | 1539 | 1163 | |
| 252 | STEJSKAL Antonín | CZE | 1530 | 1270 | |
| 253 | HERICH Damián | CZE | 1516 | 1093 | |
| 254 | PÍŠTĚK Zdeněk | CZE | 1501 | 1584 | |
| 255 | HERICH Lukáš | CZE | 1499 | 1112 | |
| 256 | TĚHAN Albert | CZE | 1484 | 1044 | |
| 257 | MAKYTA Jan | CZE | 1475 | 1150 | |
| 258 | TAIŠL Lubomír | CZE | 1430 | 1350 | |
| 259 | KUŠNIRENKO Ivan | CZE | 1423 | 0 | |
| 260 | LUONG Ngoc Quy | CZE | 1420 | 1351 | |
| 261 | TOBIŠKA Vojtěch | CZE | 1413 | 0 | |
| 262 | DOHNAL Pavel | CZE | 1400 | 1546 | |
| 263 | BEČVÁŘ Antonín | CZE | 1400 | 1086 | |
| 264 | KAŠPÁREK Jiří | CZE | 1400 | 0 |

