Josef Krejcik

Josef Emil Krejcik (22 January 1885, Rudolfsheim bei Wien – 4 January 1957) was an Austrian chess master, problemist, journalist and author.

Born in Vienna, he participated in many local tournaments before, during and after World War I.

[1] In 1930, he drew a game with Pál Réthy in a friendly match Budapest vs.

[2] Dr. Josef Krejcik published in Vienna's leading chess magazine, the Wiener Schachzeitung, and ran a chess column in the Neues Wiener Tagblatt.

He was an author of famous chess books: 13 Kinder Caissens (Vienna 1924), Artige und unartige Kinder der Schachmuse (Leipzig, 1925), and Mein Abschied vom Schach (Berlin, 1955).