Pavel Šimáček

Pavel Šimáček (born 28 April 1979) is a Czech chess grandmaster. He won the Czech Chess Championship in 2009.

Pavel Šimáček
Šimáček in 2010
Country	Czech Republic
Born	28 April 1979 (1979-04-28) (age 46) Czechoslovakia
Title	Grandmaster (2018)
Peak rating	2532 (July 2010)

Chess career

Born in 1979, Šimáček earned his international master title in 2002 and his grandmaster title in 2018.^[1]

In 1993, he won a silver medal at the Czech Youth Chess Championship in the U14 age group, and in 1998 he repeated this success in the U20 age group. He has repeatedly represented the Czech Republic at the European and World Youth Chess Championships, where he achieved his greatest success in 1995, when he won the European Youth Chess Championship in Verden in the U16 age group.

He won the Czech Chess Championship in 2009. He is the No. 16 ranked Czech player as of May 2018.^[2]