Karel Treybal, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Karel Treybal

Czech chess player

Date of Birth: 02-Feb-1885

Place of Birth: Kotopeky, Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 02-Oct-1941

Profession: judge, lawyer, chess player

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Karel Treybal

  • Karel Treybal (2 February 1885 – 2 October 1941) 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.
  • Although he played chess as an amateur, Treybal was a master who participated in several major international chess tournaments.
  • He was a younger brother of FrantiÅ¡ek Treybal who was also a prominent Czech chess player. In 1905 he tied for third/fourth in the first Czech Championships in Prague (Oldrich Duras won).
  • In 1907 he tied for second/fourth in Brno (second CZE-ch; FrantiÅ¡ek Treybal won).
  • In 1908, he won in Prague (B tournament).
  • In 1909 he took second, behind Duras, in Prague (third Cze-ch).
  • In 1921 he tied for first/third with Karel Hromádka and Ladislav ProkeÅ¡ in Brno (seventh CZE-ch).
  • He played for Czechoslovakia in three Chess Olympiads. In 1930, at second board in 3rd Chess Olympiad in Hamburg (+3 –4 =6); In 1933, at second board in 5th Chess Olympiad in Folkestone (+4 –3 =5); In 1935, at fourth board in 6th Chess Olympiad in Warsaw (+5 –1 =9).He won team silver medal at Folkestone 1933.
  • Treybal's greatest international success was sixth place alongside Aron Nimzowitsch in the 1923 Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad) tournament.
  • His performance featured a win against subsequent World Champion Alexander Alekhine. Treybal died during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia.
  • On 30 May 1941 he was arrested, imprisoned and later charged with concealing weapons for use by resistance forces and the illegal possession of a pistol.
  • It is not known whether these charges had any foundation.
  • He was condemned to death and executed on 2 October.
  • Following his execution, his body was not handed over to his family and whereabouts of his grave or remains are unknown. In 1945, a tribute to Treybal appearing in the Czech chess magazine Å ach stated that Treybal had been executed without trial and had "never occupied himself with politics".
  • ProkeÅ¡, following Treybal's death, published a monograph on him in 1946.

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