Julius Brach was a Czech chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 master.

In the beginning of his career, he won at Brno 1899, took 3rd at Osyky u Lomnice, took 2nd at Brno 1901, and took 3rd at Brno 1905. He tied for 5-6th at Nuremberg 1906 (the 15th DSB Congress

DSB Congress

The Deutschen Schachbund had been founded in Leipzig on 18 July 1877. When the next meeting took place in the Schützenhaus on 15 July 1879, sixty-two clubs had become member of the chess federation. Hofrat Rudolf von Gottschall became Chairman and Hermann Zwanziger the General Secretary...

, Hauptturnier A, Savielly Tartakower

Savielly Tartakower

Ksawery Tartakower was a leading Polish and French chess Grandmaster. He was also a leading chess journalist of the 1920s and 30s...

 won), and shared 2nd at Brno 1907 (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...

, František Treybal

František Treybal

František 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 Prague . In 1908, he took 20th in Prague . In 1909, he took 4th in Prague...

 won).

He won at Brno 1908, tied for 8-9th at Prague 1908 (B tournament, 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...

 won), took 2nd at Brno 1909, and took 6th at Prague 1909 (the 3rd CZE-ch, Oldřich Duras

Oldrich Duras

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

 won). In 1909, he played three matches in Brno; drew with Karel Hromádka

Karel Hromádka

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

 (3 : 3), beat A. Perna (4 : 0), and defeated M. Gargulak (2.5 : 0.5). He took 2nd at Brno 1911, tied for 5-7th at Breslau 1912 (the 18th DSB Congress, Hauptturnier B, Paul Krüger

Paul Krüger (chess player)

Paul Krüger was a German chess master.He lived in Hamburg. At the beginning of his career, he shared 2nd at Dresden 1892 , won at Danzig 1898, tied for 2nd-3rd at Berlin 1899/1900, tied for 4-5th at Munich 1900 , took 11th at Haarlem 1901...

), won at Brno 1913, and won in the Mannheim 1914 chess tournament

Mannheim 1914 chess tournament

The 19th DSB Congress , comprising several tournaments, began on20 July 1914 in Mannheim. Germany declared war on Russia and on France , Britain joining in the next day...

 (the 19th DSB Congress, Hauptturnier B).

During World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

, he shared 3rd at Brünn (Brno) 1916, won at Brno 1917, and tied for 9-11th at Kaschau (Košice) 1918 (Richard Réti

Richard Réti

Réti composed one of the most famous chess studies, shown in this diagram. It was published in Ostrauer Morgenzeitung 4 December 1921. It seems impossible for the white king to catch the advanced black pawn, while the white pawn can be easily stopped by the black king...

 won). After the war, he won at Brno 1920, tied for 8-9th at Brno 1921 (the 2nd Czechoslovak Chess Championship

Czechoslovak Chess Championship

The Czechoslovak National Chess Championship was the chess competition, which has determined the best Czechoslovak chess player.- History :First Czechoslovak championships were held in Prague in year 1919...

, Hromádka won), took 3rd at Pistyan (Piešťany) 1922 (B tournament, Endre Steiner

Endre Steiner

Endre Steiner was a Hungarian chess player.Endre Steiner played for Hungary in five official and one unofficial Chess Olympiads.* In 1927, he played at first reserve board at 1st Chess Olympiad in London ....

 won), tied for 9-11th at Znojmo 1927 (Karel Opočenský

Karel Opocenský

Karel Opočenský was a Czech chess master.-Biography:He was four-time Czech Champion . In 1919, he took 2nd, behind František Schubert, in Prague . In 1925, he tied for 3rd-4th in Paris . In 1927, he won in Česke Budějovice...

 won), and took 8th at Olomouc 1930 (Karl Gilg

Karl Gilg

Karl Gilg was a German chess International Master from Czechoslovakia.Gilg played for Czechoslovakia in several Chess Olympiads....

won).