Josef Dobiáš (24 December 1886 in

Mladá Boleslav Mladá Boleslav (; german: Jungbunzlau) is a city in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 42,000 inhabitants. Mladá Boleslav is the second most populated city in the region and a major centre of the Czech automotive ind ...

– 31 January 1981) was a Czech

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player. At the beginning of his career, he took 5th at Prague 1908 (B tournament), tied for 4-5th at Pilsen (Plzeň) 1911, tied for 5-7th at Breslau 1912 (the 18th

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, ''Hauptturnier B''), took 6th at 1913 Jungbunzlau (Mladá Boleslav) 1913 ( Karel Hromádka won), and took 8th at Böhmisch Trübau (Česká Třebová) 1913, and shared 1st at Brünn (Brno) 1916. After

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, he tied for 6-8th at Prague 1924/25 (the 1st Kautsky Memorial, Jan Schulz won), tied for 3rd-5th at Prague 1930, tied for 8-12th at Münchengrätz (Mnichovo Hradiště) 1933. In the period between 1939 and 1945 (the

Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; cs, Protektorát Čechy a Morava; its territory was called by the Nazis ("the rest of Czechia"). was a partially annexed territory of Nazi Germany established on 16 March 1939 following the German oc ...

), he took 12th at Rakonitz (Rakovník) 1940 ( Championships of Bohemia and Moravia, won by Jan Foltys), won the Kautsky Memorial in 1940, took 12th at Chotzen (Choceň) 1942 (

Miroslav Katětov Miroslav Katětov (; March 17, 1918, Chembar, Russia – December 15, 1995) was a Czech mathematician, chess master, and psychologist. His research interests in mathematics included topology and functional analysis. He was an author of the Ka ...

won), took 6th at Prague 1943 (''UJCS-17.Kongress''), and took 14th at Brünn (Brno) 1944 ( Karel Opočenský won).Roger Paige Chess Site

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