Czech Chess Player
1. Moritz Porges (1857)
Czech Chess Player
Moritz Porges was a Jewish Czech chess player. In 1882 he tied for 4–7th in Vienna. In 1892 he shared 2nd with Gyula Makovetz behind Siegbert Tarrasch in Dresden. He...
2. Vincenz Hruby (1856)
Czech Chess Player
Vincenz Hruby was a Czech chess master. He was born in Krivsoudov. Hruby worked as a teacher at a secondary school in Trieste today's Italy. He died there as...
3. Petr Velička (1967)
Czech Chess Player
Petr Velička is a Czech chess grandmaster. He was awarded the GM title in 2007. His best placing in the Czech Chess Championship was a second place in 1999 in...
4. Amos Pokorný (1890)
Czech Chess Player
Amos Pokorný was a Czech chess master. He shared 1st at Pilsen 1911 tied for 4-7th at Böhmisch Trübau 1913 and took 8th at Jungbunzlau 1913. After World War I...
5. Vlastimil Hort (1944)
Czech Chess Player
Vlastimil Hort is a Czech-born German chess Grandmaster. During the 1960s and 1970s he was one of the world's strongest players and reached the 1977–78 Candidates Tournament for the World...
6. Viktor Tietz (1859)
Czech Chess Player
Viktor Tietz Bohemia Czechoslovakia) was a Czech ethnic-German chess player chess life organizer and local politician. He took 7th at Breslau 1889 and won ahead of Dawid Janowski and Moritz...
7. Salo Flohr (1908)
Czech Chess Player
Salomon Mikhailovich Flohr was a leading Czech chess grandmaster of the mid-20th century who became a national hero in Czechoslovakia during the 1930s. His name was used to sell many...
8. Tomáš Oral (1977)
Czech Chess Player
Tomáš Oral is a chess Grandmaster from the Czech Republic.
9. Oldřich Duras (1882)
Czech Chess Player
Oldřich Duras was a leading Czech chess master of the early 20th century. FIDE awarded him the title of International Grandmaster in 1950 when the title was first introduced in...
10. Karel Hromádka (1887)
Czech Chess Player
Karel Hromádka was a Czech chess player two-time Czech champion 1913 and 1921. Hromádka played in the 1st unofficial Chess Olympiad Paris 1924 and scored 6. 5/8 for first place...
11. František Schubert (1894)
Czech Chess Player
šek Schubert was a Czech chess master. Before World War I he took 4th at Pilsen 1911 played at Böhmisch Trübau 1913 and took 7th at Jungbunzlau 1913. In 1915...
12. Emil Richter (1894)
Czech Chess Player
Emil Richter was a Czech chess master who was born and died in Prague. He won the Czech Chess Championship in 1948 and was awarded the International Master title in...
13. František Treybal (1882)
Czech Chess Player
šek Treybal was a Czech chess master. In 1907 he won the 2nd Czech Chess Championship in Brno. In 1907 he also won in Berlin and tied for 5–6th in...
14. Ladislav Prokeš (1884)
Czech Chess Player
Ladislav Prokeš was one of the most prolific composers of endgame studies in chess. He was born and died in Prague. Prokeš was joint Czech Champion in 1921 and played...
15. Jan Foltys (1908)
Czech Chess Player
Jan Foltys was a Czech chess International Master.
16. Jan Schulz (1899)
Czech Chess Player
Jan Schulz was a Czech chess master. He took 2nd behind Karel Opočenský at Belun 1916; won at Prague 1920 tied for 6-8th at Prague 1921 tied for 5-7th at...
17. Karel Treybal (1885)
Czech Chess Player
Karel Treybal was a prominent Czech chess player of the early twentieth century. Treybal was born in Kotopeky a village to the southwest of Prague in central Bohemia. He trained...
18. Miroslav Katětov (1918)
Czech Chess Player
Miroslav Katětov was a Czech mathematician chess master and psychologist. His research interests in mathematics included topology and functional analysis. He was an author of the Katětov–Tong insertion theorem. From...
19. Julius Brach (1881)
Czech Chess Player
Julius Brach was a Czech chess master. In the beginning of his career he won at Brno 1899 took 3rd at Osyky u Lomnice took 2nd at Brno 1901 and...
20. Miroslav Filip (1928)
Czech Chess Player
Miroslav Filip was a Czech chess grandmaster. Filip was awarded the title of International Master in 1953 and the Grandmaster title in 1955. Filip represented Czechoslovakia in 12 consecutive Chess...
21. Karel Traxler (1866)
Czech Chess Player
Karel Traxler was a Czech chess master and composer of chess problems. He is best known for the hyper-aggressive variation named after him the Traxler Variation in the Two Knights...
22. Antonín Novotný (chess composer) (Unknow)
Czech Chess Player
Antonín Novotný was a Czech chess composer and lawyer in Brno. The Novotny theme is named after him - the first appearance of the theme was in a Novotný's three...