Karel Opočenský

Karel Opočenský (7 February 1892, Most, Bohemia – 16 November 1975, Prague) was a Czech chess master.

He was four-time Czech Champion (1927, 1928, 1938, and 1944). In 1919, he took 2nd, behind František Schubert, in Prague (Czechoslovak Chess Championship). In 1925, he tied for 3rd–4th in Paris (Alexander Alekhine won). In 1927, he won in Česke Budějovice (CSR-ch). In 1928, he won in Brno (CSR-ch). In 1933, he won at Prague (the 10th Vaclav Kautsky Memorial). In 1935, he took 4th in Bad Nauheim (Efim Bogoljubow won).

In 1935, he took fourth place in Łódź (Savielly Tartakower won). In 1935, he won in Luhačovice. In 1936, he took second place, behind Henryk Friedman, in Vienna. In 1937, he took second, behind Karl Gilg, in Teplice (Teplitz Schönau). In 1938, he won in Nice. In 1938, he tied for first with Hermann in Prague (CSR-ch).

Karel Opočenský played for Czechoslovakia four times in the Chess Olympiads.

He won individual gold and team silver medals at Folkestone 1933 and at Prague 1931, team bronze.

When World War II broke out, Opočensky, Jan Foltys, and František Zíta were playing for the Bohemia & Moravia team in the 8th Chess Olympiad in Argentina. They chose to return home, whilst team-mates Jiří Pelikán and Karel Skalička elected to remain in South America.

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