Jan Kotrč

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Jan Kotrč

Jan Kotrč (born August 23, 1862 in Bielitz , † October 17, 1943 in Vlachovo Březí ) was a Czech chess player , chess composer and publicist.

Tournaments

Behind Jan Kvicala, he took a shared 2nd place together with Karel Traxler in Prague in 1891 at the 3rd Congress of the Bohemian Chess Federation, shared 4th-6th place. in Dresden in 1892 at the 7th Congress of the German Chess Federation in the main tournament A, which Paul Lipke won. He won a match against Josef Kvicala (+3 = 2 −0) in Prague in 1893 as well as 8th place in Vienna in 1899/1900 at the Kolisch memorial tournament (winner was Géza Maróczy ).

publicist

In 1884 Kotrč published Šach-Mat , the first Czech chess newspaper, and from 1896 together with his brother-in-law Karel Traxler České listy šachové . From 1882 he headed a chess club, which had its domicile in the Jedličkova coffee shop in Prague. In 1899, Kotrč founded the first chess corner in the Národní listy in a Czech daily newspaper and ran it until 1900.

Kotrč moved to Vienna in 1903 and worked there as a newspaper editor for the last four decades of his life. In the inter-war period he published the Wiener Arbeiter-Schachzeitung , which is now a bibliophile rarity.

Chess composition

Jan Kotrč was one of the leading Czech chess composers. He was a representative of the Bohemian School .

Jan Kotrč
The Riddle, 1931
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Mate in 3 moves

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Solution:

1. Ke4 – d4! threatens 2. Rg2 – e2 and 3. Re2 – e8 pattern
mate 1.… Nb2 – d1 (3) 2. Rg2 – a2 and 3. Ra2 – a8 pattern
mate 1.… Nb2 – c4 2. Rb7 – b1 and 3. Rb1– h1 pattern matt

Works

  • Kotrč, Jan; Traxler, Karel: Chess Problems from the Years 1884-1910. Vienna 1910.
  • Kotrč, Jan: Hra v šachy. 1911
  • Kotrč, Jan: Textbook of Chess Game. 1920
  • Kotrč, Jan: The game of chess. 1926
  • Kotrč, Jan: Openings in the modern game of chess. 1934

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables , An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, September 1, 2004 ( Memento from April 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 847 kB)
  2. ↑ http://members.shaw.ca/edo2/players/p1095.html
personal data
SURNAME Kotrč, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech chess player, chess composer and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielitz
DATE OF DEATH October 17, 1943
Place of death Vlachovo Březí