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<Šachový sborník 1955
Alster Ladislav
šach

r.v. 1957, nakladatel Sportovní a turistické nakladatelství, OBr., o. zašlá>

<Chess proceedings 1955
Alster Ladislav

šachr.v. 1957, publisher Sports and tourist publishing, fig., O. Faded>

<This period could be the most telling deceased members Josef Jirásek and William Rohn. In particular, Professor Jirasek was most pronounced in the postwar period the person Rakovnik chess (especially with regard to organizational activities). Paradoxically, in this period came from the Non-Aligned Rakovnik club most outstanding player personality. It was Ladislav Alster, who in 1940 was a boy running around between tables championship tournament and after the war has already taken his game and fought his way into the best tournaments. Unfortunately, soon leaving Rakovníka to Prague and Rakovník is not so much in the national scale hear.>

http://www.sachyrakovnik.cz/histori...

I think Rakovníka (or Lužná u Rakovníka) is a town west of Prague. How far west I can't really say, since the google map I'm looking at seems not to have a scale (ugh!).

<Chess history of Poděbrady

CHAMPIONSHIP OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA 1956: ALSTER AND OPOČENSKÝ

Another strong tournament took place in a Central Bohemia spa town twenty years later. In 1956 twenty prominent domestic chess players came together here to compete for the title of Champion of Czechoslovakia. 29-years old Ladislav Alster became the winner of the tournament, who was at the peak of his powers that time. Master František Zíta gained silver and bronze with eleven and a half points out of nineteen possible was divided between Karel Opočenský and Miroslav Herink. Out of famous names of later period appeared in 1956 behind Poděbrady chessboard e.g. Brno's master František Blatný or Slovak representatives Julius Kozma, Ján Šefc and Maxmilián Ujtelky.>

http://praguechess.cz/poradane-akce...

There is also a great 1936 picture of Alekhine and Flohr doing their best to out-dude Tom Wolfe:

http://praguechess.cz/foto_galerie/...

<41 I.M. JUDr. Ladislav Alster>

here: http://www.sokrates2001.cz/index.ph...

<chess 1954-2005

Permanent members of the Department of chess ÚDA [(Central House of the Army)] were in the years 1954-1956 two front Czechoslovak chess players - Miroslav Filip and Ladislav Alster. The first MS 1956 occupied eighth place. After the 1957 chess Department also began to perform the tasks of cultural and educational activities. The highest Czech chess competition he worked until 2005.>

<Šachy 1954−2005

Stálými členy odboru šachu ÚDA byli v letech 1954 až 1956 dva přední českoslovenští šachisté – Miroslav Filip a Ladislav Alster. První z nich na MS 1956 obsadil 8. místo. Po roce 1957 šachový odbor začal plnit rovněž úkoly kulturní a osvětové činnosti. V nejvyšší české šachové soutěži působil do roku 2005.>

http://www.mocr.army.cz/assets/mult...

<<Interesting>

In Berlin gallery painting Dutch painter Lucas van Leyden from 1508 called chess game. When calculating the box on the chessboard vertically, are fine, horizontally but there are four more.

"In the 14th and 15th centuries was popular in the Netherlands so-called courier chess. Besides the usual chess figures that each player additionally four pawn, two couriers, a mentor and a clown. But it was not the only version. Mongolian warrior Temarián used the chessboard of 110 fields (10x11), where there were a total of 11 kinds of figures, arranged in three rows. There was general, elephant, camel and even a giraffe", explained FIDE master Ladislav Alster, which in Carlsbad in the 60s of last century healed.>

<Zajímavost

V berlínské galerii je obraz nizozemského malíře Lucase van Leydena z roku 1508 nazvaný šachová partie. Spočítáme-li políčka na šachovnici ve svislém směru, jsou v pořádku, ve vodorovném jich je ale o čtyři více.

„Ve 14. a 15. století byl v Nizozemska oblíben takzvaný kurýrní šach. Vedle obvyklých šachových figurek měl každý hráč navíc ještě čtyři pěšce, dva kurýry, jednoho rádce a šaška. Nebyla to však jediná verze. Mongolský válečník Temarián používal šachovnici o 110 polích (10x11), kde bylo celkem 11 druhů figur, seřazených ve třech řadách. Byl tu generál, slon, velbloud a dokonce žirafa,“ vysvětlil mistr FIDE Ladislav Alster, který se v Karlových Varech v 60. letech minulého století léčil.>

<Junior Championship

It all began in 1943, during the Protectorate. Z. Martinek then held in Chocen 1.šachové junior championships, and on this occasion it was agreed 7 enthusiasts chess game that will play two rounds correspondence tournament, which would be a sort of unofficial championship of Bohemia and Moravia.

The tournament lasted a year and the winner was a promising junior Brno Henry Kucera 9b profit of 12 before George Hladký of Hodonína. Participate in the competition was even 16 year old Ladislav Alster, later a member of the winning team at the World Cup Czechoslovakia college teams in 1954 in Oslo and a champion of the Republic of practical chess.>

<Mistrovství republiky juniorů

Vše začalo v roce 1943, v době Protektorátu. Tehdy uspořádal Z. Martínek v Chocni 1.šachové juniorské přebory a při této příležitosti se dohodlo 7 nadšenců šachové hry, že sehrají dvoukolový korespondenční turnaj, který by byl jakýmsi neoficiálním přeborem Čech a Moravy.

Tento turnaj trval rok a vítězem se stal nadějný brněnský junior Jindřich Kučera ziskem 9b z 12 před Jiřím Hladkým z Hodonína. Účastníkem soutěže byl i tehdy 16letý Ladislav Alster, později člen vítězného družstva ČSR na mistrovství světa vysokoškolských družstev v roce 1954 v Oslo a přeborník republiky v praktickém šachu.>

comes what might be called a hard fought draw <Alster--Kavalek (1965)> during a Czech team championship:

[Event "Czech Team Championship - Slavoj Vysehrad vs VS Praha"] [Site "Prague CZE"]
[Date "1965.11.28"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Ladislav Alster"]
[Black "Lubomir Kavalek"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D40"]
[EventDate "1965.09.19"]
[Source "Lubomir Kavalek - http://www.krolopp.mablog.eu/Praha1..."]