Zbyněk Hráček

Zbyněk Hráček (born 9 September 1970) is a Czech chess grandmaster. He was Czech Chess Champion in 1994, won the Zonal tournament Odorhea 1995 and the tournaments Pardubice (Open) 1993, Altensteig 1995 and Lippstadt 2000.^[1]

Zbyněk Hráček
Country	Czech Republic
Born	(1970-09-09) 9 September 1970 (age 54) Uherské Hradiště, Czechoslovakia
Title	Grandmaster (1993)
FIDE rating	2539 (August 2025)
Peak rating	2646 (October 2014)
Peak ranking	No. 20 (January 1996)

Career

Hráček played for Czechoslovakia at the Chess Olympiads of 1990 and 1992, and for the Czech Republic at the Olympiads of 1994, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2014^[2] and in the European Team Chess Championships of 1997, 1999, 2003, 2005 and 2007.^[3]

In 1996 (January - June list), Hracek was in the Elo Top Twenty of the world and the leading Czech player. In the November 2009 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2624, making him the Czech Republic's number three.