The Central Chess Union of Czechoslovakia was open to all players, but in 1921, the German players established a separate, the German Chess Federation of Czechoslovakia.
The German federation held congresses every year and in October 1922, at its first congress in Teplitz-Schonau fourteen players participated.
Despite the absence of world champion Capablanca, Alekhine, Vidmar, former world champion Laker and other top players such as
Bogoljubov (who registered, but withdrew and was replaced by Samisch), Euwe and Nimzovich, all the players were world class.
The time control was 2 hours for the first 30 moves then 1 hour every 15 moves. As an experiment draws before move 45 could only be made in agreement with the tournament leaders.
Before the last round, Reti, Spielmann, Tartakower, Gruenfeld and Rubinstein had a shot at first place. But Tartakower lost toTeichmann and Rubinstein lost to Kostic and the other three
drew.
In the following game we see Wolf unsuccessfully defending against an attack on his King. He banked on a Q-side counterattack and right when victory was in his grasp he blundered and lost in a pleasing fashion.
Karel Treybal (February 2, 1885 - October 2, 1941) was a prominent Czech chess player of the early twentieth century. He was born in Kotopeky, a village southwest of Prague in central Bohemia. He trained as a lawyer and became chairman of the district court in Velvary, a small town near Prague. He was always an amateur, but
played in several major international tournaments. He was a younger brother of Frantisek Treybal (1882-1947) who was also a prominent Czech player.
Frantisek survived the war. Karel did not; he died during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia.
On May 30, 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 October 2, 1941.
In 1945, the Czech chess magazine Sach stated that Treybal had been executed without trial and had never been involved in politics.
Treybal’s opponent, an Austrian journalist, Heinrich Wolf (October 20, 1875 - Decemberm 1943) suffered a similar fate.
In August 1940, the Soviet Union annexed Latvia and Riga became the capital. German forces occupied Riga in early July 1941 after the invasion of the Soviet Union and the city became the capital of the Reich Commissariat Ostland.
German Einsatzgruppen, together with Latvian auxiliaries, shot several thousand Jews shortly after German forces entered the city.
Then the Nazis imprisoned some 30,000 Jews in Riga and in late November and early December of 1941, announced that they were going to settle the majority of the ghetto inhabitants further east.
On November 30 and December 8-9, at least 25,000 Jews from the Riga ghetto were told to undress, put their shoes in one pile and their clothing in another pile.
They were then driven to the edges of mass graves and machine-gunned. It went on all night and the next day. Wolf was one of those murdered.
A fragment of this Treybal-Wolf game appeared in The Art of Attack in Chess by Vladimir Vukovic which was published before engines and while the book is an excellent one in which the author expounds on all forms of attack on the King, much if his analysis will prove faulty simply because he did not have a strong engine available to check his analysis. The game is exceptionally complicated so it’s hard to fault Vukovic in any way for his faulty analysis.
Karel Treybal–Heinrich Wolf1–0C77Teplitz-Schonau10.10.1922Stockfish 15.1
Ruy Lopez 1.e4 e5 2.f3 c6 3.b5 a6 4.a4 f6 5.d3 Instead of 5.O-O.
This rather slow system avoids a lot of theory. d6 Now with the e-Pawn
firmly defended black threatens to trade off white's light squared B with ...
b5 and ...Na5. Making a retreat for the B. 6.c3 e7 The modern way is 6...
g6 which gives black slightly better results. 7.bd2 0-0 8.f1 e6 8...d5 has all but disappeared today, but it is totally satisfactory. 9.e2 d6 10.g5 e6 11.exd5 xd5 12.e3 e6 13.xc6 bxc6 White gas only a smidgen of
an advantage. Mason,J-Weiss,M Hamburg 1885 8...e8 9.g3 f8 10.0-0 b5 11.c2 e7 is about even. Dubinin, P-Lisitsin,G Moscow 1940 9.g3 h6 10.d4 exd4 11.xc6 11.cxd4 is slightly better. After c4 12.a3 d5 13.xc6 bxc6 14.e5 white stands well. 11...bxc6 12.xd4 d7 13.0-0 fe8 14.d3 f8 15.f3 eb8 16.b3 e8 17.f4 c5 18.xe6 xe6 19.c4 A good
move limiting black's play in the center. e8 This attack on the e-Pawn
turns out to be unfruitful. It would have been better to firtst drive the N on
g3 away with 19...h5! 19...h5 20.b2 h4 21.e5 dxe5 22.fxe5 hxg3 23.exf6 gxh2+ and white's advantage is minimal. 20.b2 The P is immune. d7
This exposes him to a vicious attack! 20...xe4 is met by 21.f5 e7 22.ae1 and white is winning. 20...a5 21.a4 followed by Rae1 and black's
position is very passive. 21.f5 e7 22.a4 and white's advantage is
minimal. 21.f5 e7 22.f6 This highlights the flaw in black's 20th move...
of course, if the N was still on f6 this would not be playable. e6 22...xf6 is met by 23.xf6 gxf6 24.h5 g7 25.g3 f8 26.xf6 e6 27.xg7 g6 28.h4 e8 28...xg7 29.f6+ h8 30.xh6+ h7 31.xh7# 29.c3
followed by Rf1 with a winning attack. 23.f5 This move is faulty...it
allows black to equalize. 23.fxg7 xg7 24.xg7 xg7 25.f5 Crushing. g6 26.af1 e5 27.d2 e7 Black has no constructive moves. 28.h5+ f8 29.f4 g7 30.d5 ee8 30...ae8 31.xe7 etc. 31.xc7 23...g6 24.g3 e5 25.d2 In his analysis of this position Vukovic pointed out that black
has the task of organizing a defense against an attack on his K's position and
a glance is enough to show that he has no move to make in the way of direct
defense. Therefore, indirect defence must be used to hinder white's plan to
gain control of h6. With that aim, only an action on the Q-side can be
considered because black cannot achieve anything in the center. a5 26.f4
This is wrong! Black now gets the upper hand with his Q-side counterplay. 26.e2 Repositioning the N. c8 27.c3 a4 28.d5 28.xa4 is tactically
faulty. xc4 29.f2 xb2 30.xb2 xe4 with a huge advantage. 28...h5
and now it's black who stands slightly better. 26...a4 27.af1 axb3 28.axb3 a2 Black's counterattack has succeeded and he now enjoysd the advantage.
29.h4 Still thinkig of attacking, but defense was called fort and to that
end retreating with 29.R4f2 was better. b8 The threat is ...Nxc4. Note that
white is still a long way from having any serious threats on the K-side.
Nevertheless, 29...Rb8 is an error that gives white a chance to equalize. 29...ea8 leaves white tied up. 30.c3 d3 31.c1 xc1 32.xc1 e5
Trading Qs is the way to go here as after 33.xe5 dxe5 34.d1 8a6 35.g4 xf6 36.f5 e2 37.b1 h5 38.g3 xe4 black has a winning ending. 30.c3 Black's last move persuaded white to move his Q , but it
shouldn't have! 30.f5 and white has nothing to worry about because no
matter hoiw black takes the N the chances are equal. xf6 30...xc4
is out of the question. 31.xh6+ h8 32.xf7+ g8 33.h6+ xh6 34.xh6 f7 35.g7+ e8 36.h8+ g8 37.xg8# 30...gxf5 31.xh6 f4 32.xf4 xh6 33.xh6 g4 34.f5 Black can draw with 34...Qd1+, 34...Nf3+ or 34...Rxb3 d1+ 35.f1 g4 etc. 31.xh6+ xh6 32.xh6 g7 with equal chances. 30...xc4 Vukovic was critical of this because now white plays Bc1 with
gain of tempo and at the same time placing the B on the c1-h6 diagonal where
it is better placed. Actually, black still has a decisive advantage and 30...
Nxc4 was really his best move. 30...g5 31.h3 xc4 anway! 32.f5 xb2 33.xc4 xc4 34.bxc4 h7 and black is better here, too. 31.c1 e5
This is, as Vukovic pointed out, a sharp position and he recomended 31...g5, a
good move, but the move Wolf played is still the best. 32.xh6 xh6 Vukovic
labeled this a tactical mistake, but it is not at all an error. 32...xb3
also packs a wallop. 33.c1 g4 34.xf8 xg3 35.hxg3 xe4 36.f3 d4+ 37.h1 a1 33.xh6 xb3 This is a gross blunder that loses
immediately. 33...xb3 makes white's task much more difficult, but it
would also lose after 34.c1 g4 35.g5 bb2 36.xg6+ fxg6 37.xg6+ f8 38.g7+ e8 39.f7+ d7 40.f8+ c6 Now white must return a Q with 41.xb2 xb2 but he still has a single winning line... 42.a8+ d7 43.a4+ c6 44.a7+ e8 45.f5 d8 46.g7 e7 47.f8+ xf8 48.e6+ e8 49.a8+ d7 50.xf8+ e7 51.g6+ 33...g4 This move is an entirely different story.
Black has a decisive advantage. This was missed by both Vukovic in the
original book and in the algebraic reprint. 34.xg6+ f8 34...fxg6 35.f7+ h7 with a likely draw after 36.f8 xf8 37.xf8 e5 38.f7+ g8 39.xe5 xe5 40.xc7 35.xg4 xg4 Black has a decisive advantage. 34.c1
Threatening mate with Rh8+! White is clearly winning. g4 A move too late. 35.f5 No other move would secure the win! e8 35...gxf5 36.g5+ f8 37.h8# 36.h4 White wants to mate with Nh6+. xe4 36...xf6 37.h8+ xh8 38.h6+ mate next move. 36...b2 37.e7+ xe7 38.xb2 xb2 39.fxe7 b8 40.xg4 e8 41.e5 xe7 42.exd6 with a technical
win. cxd6 37.e7+ xe7 38.fxe7 e2 39.xg4 e3+ 39...xe7 40.g3 b4 41.h3 d4+ 42.h1 f8 43.b1 d5 44.b8+ e8 45.h8+ wins 40.xe3 xe3 41.xg6+ A really nice tactical finish in the ending. h7 41...fxg6 42.f8+ 42.gf6 Black resigned the 3 Ps are going to be no
match for the R. 1–0
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