Because Traxler was a
Roman Catholic priest, he rarely played chess in serious competitions. As a composer of chess problems he pursued the style of
Bohemian school. He wrote under a number of pseudonyms: Anonymus z Tábora, Karel Kaplan, Vis Maior und Karel Zboněk. From 1896 to 1899, he edited, in part, the journal
České listy šachové (Czech chess letters). He composed over 900 chess problems, mainly 2-, 3-, and 4-move problems, but also multiple-move ones, and more rarely,
selfmates. With his brother-in-law, Jan Kotrč, he published a selection of 247 problems that he'd composed by 1910. }} == References ==