Josef Rejfiř (22 September 1909 – 4 May 1962) was one of
Czechoslovakia's strongest
chess
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players before
World War II
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.
Rejfiř represented Czechoslovakia at all five
Chess Olympiad
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s from 1928 to 1935.
He retired from chess for many years, but returned in the last decade of his life to play in the 1956 and 1958 Olympiads.
Rejfiř received the
International Master title in 1956.
He died of a heart attack in
Prague
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, the city of his birth.
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1909 births
1962 deaths
Czech chess players
Chess International Masters
Chess Olympiad competitors
20th-century chess players
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