František Schubert (27 April 1894,

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– 19 April 1942,

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) was a Czech

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master. Before World War I, he took 4th at Pilsen (Plzeň) 1911 ( Amos Pokorný and Zářecký won), played at Böhmisch Trübau (Česká Třebová) 1913, and took 7th at Jungbunzlau (Mladá Boleslav) 1913 ( Bohemian Championship,

Karel Hromádka Karel Hromádka (23 April 1887 in Großweikersdorf, Austria – 16 July 1956) was a Czech chess player, two-time Czech champion, 1913 and 1921 (jointly). Hromádka played in the 1st unofficial Chess Olympiad, Paris 1924, and scored 6.5/8 ...

won). In 1915, he took 5th in Vienna (the 7th Trebitsch Memorial,

Carl Schlechter Carl Schlechter (2 March 1874 – 27 December 1918) was a leading Austro-Hungarian chess master and theoretician at the turn of the 20th century. He is best known for drawing a controversial World Chess Championship match with Emanuel Lasker. Ea ...

won). After the war, he won at Prague 1919 (

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), took 12th in the Prague City Championship 1921 (won by Hromádka and František Treybal), won at Prague 1925 (the 2nd Kautsky Memorial), shared 6th at Prague 1926 (the 3rd Kautsky Memorial,

Jan Schulz Jan Schulz (May 1899 – May 1953) 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 ( Karel Hromádka and František Treybal won), tied for 5-7th at Brno 1921 (Hrom ...

, Prokop, and

Karel Skalička Karel Skalička (Spanish: Carlos Skalicka) (1 November 1896, in Prague – 30 December 1979, in Buenos Aires) was a Czech-Argentine chess master. In 1924, he won a team gold medal for Czechoslovakia (Hromádka, Schulz, Vaněk, Skalička) in the 1s ...

won), took 9th at Scarborough 1928 ( William Winter won), took 14th at Prague 1933 (the 10th Kautsky Memorial,

Karel Opočenský Karel Opočenský (7 February 1892 – 16 November 1975) was a Czechoslovak chess master. Chess career Opočenský was four-time Czech Champion (1927, 1928, 1938, and 1944). In 1919, he took 2nd, behind František Schubert, in Prague (Czechoslov ...

won), and tied for 2nd-4th at Prague 1939 (Olympic qual., Jiří Pelikán won). In 1941, he was deported from Prague to Łódź where he was murdered in 1942.

Notable Game

Reti vs. Schubert, 1915

References

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