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GM Stepan Zilka

Full name

Stepan Zilka

Born

1/1/1988 (age 36)‎

Place of birth

Federation

Czech Republic

Rating

Bio

Most Played Openings

White Pieces

Grünfeld Defense: Exchange, Classical Variation (9 games)

Alapin Sicilian Defense (9 games)

Sicilian Defense: Open, Najdorf, English Attack (8 games)

Catalan Opening: Open Defense, Classical Line (7 games)

Nimzo-Indian Defense: Ragozin, Gligorić, Bernstein, Exchange Variation (7 games)

Black Pieces

Ruy López Opening: Morphy Defense, Keres, Flohr-Zaitsev System (12 games)

Queen's Gambit Declined (9 games)

Semi-Slav Defense: Main Line, Stoltz Variation (7 games)

Sicilian Defense: Open, Classical Variation (7 games)

Semi-Slav Defense (6 games)

Games

Players	Result	Moves	Year
Stepan Zilka (2611) Vaclav Finek (2416)	1-0	52	2024
Stepan Zilka (2611) Richard Jr Biolek (2416)	1-0	50	2024
Stepan Zilka (2597) Martin Jurcik (2367)	1-0	30	2024
Stepan Zilka (2597) Martin Chlpik (2296)	1-0	22	2024
Stepan Zilka (2589) Peter Michalik (2562)	1-0	30	2024
Stepan Zilka (2589) Maksim Novik (2415)	1-0	43	2024
Stepan Zilka (2589) Aleksandr A Ostrovskiy (2411)	1-0	27	2024
Stepan Zilka (2574) Rafail Antoniou (2007)	1-0	38	2024
Stepan Zilka (2574) Shiyam Thavandiran (2388)	0-1	31	2024
Stepan Zilka (2574) Jegor Lashkin (2472)	0-1	30	2024

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