František Treybal was a Czech chess master

Chess master

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In 1907 he won the 2nd Czech Chess Championship

Czech Chess Championship

The Czech National Chess Championship is the chess competition, which determines the best Czech Republic chess player.-History:First national championships were held before founding of independent Czechoslovakia as the championships of Bohemia every second year between 1905 and 1913...

 in Brno

Brno

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. In 1907 he also won in Berlin

Berlin

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, and tied for 5-6th in Prague

Prague

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 (Oldřich Duras

Oldrich Duras

Oldřich Duras was a leading Czech chess master of the early 20th century...

 won). In 1908, he took 20th in Prague (Duras and Carl Schlechter

Carl Schlechter

Carl Schlechter was a leading Austrian chess master and theoretician at the turn of the 20th century. He is best known for drawing a World Chess Championship match with Emanuel Lasker.-Early life:...

 won). In 1909, he took 4th in Prague (Duras won). In 1910, he tied for 1st-2nd with Ladislav Prokeš

Ladislav Prokeš

Ladislav Prokeš was one of the most prolific composers of endgame studies in chess. He was born and died in Prague....

 in Prague. 1913, he won in Berlin and took 2nd, behind Karel Hromádka

Karel Hromádka

Karel Hromádka was a Czech chess player, two-time Czech champion, 1913 and 1921 ....

, in the 5th Czech championships in Jungbunzlau (Mladá Boleslav).

After World War I

World War I

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 he played in several tournaments in Prague. In 1921, he tied for 1st-2nd with Hromádka. In 1924, he tied for 4-5th (Jan Schulz

Jan Schulz

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 Brno 1921 , and won at Prague 1924 .Schulz played for Czechoslovakia in 1st unofficial Chess...

 won). In 1927, he tied for 5-8th (Hromádka won). In 1929, he took 2nd, behind Salo Flohr

Salo Flohr

Salomon Mikhailovich Flohr was a leading Czech and later Soviet chess grandmaster of the mid-20th century, who became a national hero in Czechoslovakia during the 1930s. His name was used to sell many of the luxury products of the time, including Salo Flohr cigarettes, slippers and eau-de-cologne...

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He was an elder brother of Karel Treybal

Karel Treybal

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 as a lawyer and became chairman of the district court in Velvary, a small town on the opposite side of Prague...

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