Jan Kotrč 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.

Born in Bielsko (then Austrian Silesia

Austrian Silesia

Austrian Silesia , officially the Duchy of Upper and Lower Silesia was an autonomous region of the Kingdom of Bohemia and the Austrian Empire, from 1867 a Cisleithanian crown land of Austria-Hungary...

, now Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

), he was an editor of chess magazines Šach-Mat (1884-1885), České listy šachové (1896-1900) in Prague, and Arbeiter Schachzeitung in the 1920s-1930s in Vienna.

He shared 2nd with Karel Traxler

Karel Traxler

----Karel Traxler was a Czech chess master and composer of chess problems.He is best known for the hyper-aggressive variation named after him, the Traxler Variation in the Two Knights Defense, which was first shown in the following game against Reinisch, played in Hostouň in 1890:1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6...

, behind Jan Kvicala

Jan Kvicala

Jan Kvicala was a Czech chess master.He lived and played chess tournaments and matches in Prague. He won in 1891 , lost a match to Oldřich Důras in 1902, took 2nd behind Duras in 1906, took 18th in the Prague 1908 chess tournament , beat Karel Hromádka Jan (Hansi) Kvicala (Kvíčala) (1868 – 11...

, at Prague 1891 (the 3rd Congress of the Bohemian Chess Association), tied for 4-6th at Dresden 1892 (the 7th 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, Paul Lipke

Paul Lipke

Paul Lipke , was a German chess master.Lipke was born in Erfurt. In 1889, he tied for 5–6th in Breslau , and took 4th in Dessau. In 1892, he won in Dresden , and he took 2nd in Halle...

 won). He won a match against Josef Kvicala (+3 –0 =2) at Prague 1893, and took 8th at Vienna 1899/1900 (Kolisch Memorial, Géza Maróczy

Géza Maróczy

Géza Maróczy was a leading Hungarian chess Grandmaster, one of the best players in the world in his time. He was also a practicing engineer.-Early career:...

won).

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