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He treats the board the way he treats a stubborn hide: slowly, by hand, one stitch at a time, often missing what the opponent is sniffing at on the next rank. Pieces wander, seams slip, and a queen left out in the open will be lost without much warning. Expect a patient, plain, almost meditative game from an old craftsman who blunders kindly and never sulks about it.","67","konop","Czechia","cz","45d0b0efc1afda8070f5794d0aeec4d9ef44066199cef84337f8505661228224","2026-07-06",150,"json",[15,18,21],{"question":16,"answer":17},"What rating is Tomáš?","Tomáš is rated approximately 150 Elo. That places him just above random play: he knows how every piece moves but cannot follow a plan for more than a move or two and will hang material in most games. He is meant for true beginners, not for rated club play.",{"question":19,"answer":20},"What opening does Tomáš play?","Tomáš has no fixed opening repertoire on file. He has watched chess in village pubs for years without ever studying theory, so his first moves are improvised hide by hide rather than drawn from a known line. Expect offbeat, non-theoretical setups from either color.",{"question":22,"answer":23},"Is Tomáš a good first opponent for someone learning chess?","Yes, Tomáš is one of the gentlest opponents on Chessiverse and well suited to a first full game. At 150 Elo he blunders pieces almost every game and plays without any opening preparation, so a new player has room to try ideas, recover from mistakes, and still bring the point home.","A good bag holds the air. A good move holds the line.","male","Sit, take the bench. Hands clean? Dobrá. I am Tomáš, I tan goat hides for the dudy up in Chodsko, fifty years now. Chess I play slow, like soaking a skin. Move when ready. The měch holds the air, the move holds the line.","Tomáš has spent five decades in his small Chodsko workshop curing goat hides into the soft air-bags that give the dudy, the Moravian-Czech bagpipe, its voice. He learned the trade from his uncle in a village above the Šumava foothills and still works by hand with tannin, knife, and patient palm. When he plays chess he treats it the same way he treats a hide: a slow, careful piece of leatherwork.",false,"2026-05-08T00:00:00.000Z","A small scrap of his very first finished air-bag, kept folded in the breast pocket of his leather apron",{},"Tomáš Konopík","Moravia Chodsko bagpipe air-bag tanner",{"solid_sharp":35,"unprepared_theoretical":35},0,null,{"defensive_aggressive":35,"simplifying_complicating":35,"category":38},3,"Tomáš plays with no clear leaning toward attack or defense, no settled taste for trades or tension, and no memorized theory to fall back on. At 150 Elo his decisions are stitch by stitch: he answers what is in front of him on the bench, sometimes pushes a pawn, sometimes pulls a piece back, and often leaves a hide hanging where the rough one can cut it loose.",[41,43,45,47,49,51,53,55,57,59,61,63,65,67,69,72,74,76],{"rating":12,"msSinceEpoch":42},1778300785437,{"rating":12,"msSinceEpoch":44},1778346004467,{"rating":12,"msSinceEpoch":46},1778346451019,{"rating":12,"msSinceEpoch":48},1778437198104,{"rating":12,"msSinceEpoch":50},1778446833174,{"rating":12,"msSinceEpoch":52},1778463941869,{"rating":12,"msSinceEpoch":54},1778524066873,{"rating":12,"msSinceEpoch":56},1778547666871,{"rating":12,"msSinceEpoch":58},1778674917115,{"rating":12,"msSinceEpoch":60},1778770219840,{"rating":12,"msSinceEpoch":62},1778798938832,{"rating":12,"msSinceEpoch":64},1778815297734,{"rating":12,"msSinceEpoch":66},1778874401800,{"rating":12,"msSinceEpoch":68},1778932752768,{"rating":70,"msSinceEpoch":71},149,1778960582514,{"rating":70,"msSinceEpoch":73},1779034464248,{"rating":70,"msSinceEpoch":75},1779096213514,{"rating":70,"msSinceEpoch":77},1779173789932,"Tomáš",{"sameStyle":80,"different":99},[81,87,93],{"botId":82,"name":83,"elo":84,"country":85,"countryCode":86,"category":38},"andra","Lucía Andrade",153,"Ecuador","ec",{"botId":88,"name":89,"elo":90,"country":91,"countryCode":92,"category":38},"hutsa","Paraska Hutsuliak",164,"Ukraine","ua",{"botId":94,"name":95,"elo":96,"country":97,"countryCode":98,"category":38},"brunn","Resi Brunner",135,"Austria","at",[100,107],{"botId":101,"name":102,"elo":103,"country":104,"countryCode":105,"category":106},"tsone","Vesela Tsoneva",152,"Bulgaria","bg",4,{"botId":108,"name":109,"elo":110,"country":111,"countryCode":112,"category":113},"patras","Floarea Pătraș",147,"Romania","ro",2,"bots/konop","Absolute beginners and rated players up to roughly 400 Elo will find Tomáš a comfortable, low-pressure opponent. Because he has no fixed style, sharp or solid, defensive or aggressive, newer players can practice spotting hanging pieces, walking a king to safety, and converting an extra rook without facing prepared theory. Anyone learning how to finish a won position against quiet, unhurried resistance will get steady reps here.","af7DgLoe57LRL_Pm3Tdtp92fAcKbxTqcRZeHJ0OFdDs",1784583541141]