Luděk Pachman

Luděk Pachman (German: Ludek Pachmann; 11 May 1924 – 6 March 2003) was a Czech-German chess grandmaster, chess writer, and political activist. In 1972, after being imprisoned and tortured almost to death by the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, he was allowed to emigrate to West Germany. He lived the remainder of his life there, and […]