Luděk Pachman

Luděk Pachman ( born May 11, 1924 in Bela pod Bezdězem; † 6 March 2003 in Passau ) was a Czech- German chess player.

Chess career

His international debut was at the tournament in Prague in 1943, which was won by world champion Alexander Alekhine. Between 1946 and 1966 he won seven times the national championship of Czechoslovakia. In 1950 he became International Champion, 1954 Grand Master.

In 1947, he qualified in the zone tournament Hilversum through his shared 2nd place for the Interzonal, where he finished in 17th place Saltsjöbaden (under 20 attendees ) 1948. Once again, he qualified by winning the Zone Tournament 1951 in Marienbad and Prague for the Interzonal 1952 in Saltsjöbaden, in which he reached the split 11th to 13th place. In 1955 he took part in the inter-zone tournament in Gothenburg and came to the shared 10th to 11th place. In 1957 he won the zone tournament in Dublin with 14.5 points from 17 matches. Interzonal 1958 in Portorož, he missed in 7th place with 11.5 points out of 20 games just barely qualified for the Candidates Tournament.

In 1961 he played for Czechoslovakia at the European Team Championship in Oberhausen. Overall, it took from 1952 to 1976 in nine chess Olympiads, eight times for Czechoslovakia and 1976 in Haifa for Germany.

After his emigration to Germany in 1972 he played in Solingen SG 1868. After 1974 he moved to Berlin to SC Kreuzberg. In 1978, he won the championship of the Federal Republic of Germany. Several times he played in the German national team. From 1985 to 1989 he taught at the high school chess Altensteig. At times, he played in the big leagues for Thallichtenberg.

He was one of the few chess players who have a budget balanced against Bobby Fischer: 2 wins, 2 losses and 4 draws.

His best historical Elo rating was in December 1959 2695, by which he was number 14 in the world. 1998, at the end of his playing career, was his ELO rating 2410. Three years before his death, he took part in the World Chess Championship of seniors in 1999 Gladenbach, but where he could only occupy space 91. Jānis Klovans won this World Cup.

Political life

Originally Pachman convinced Marxist, but later became a dissident and professing Catholics. Already in 1940, he came for a student demonstration in custody. Because of its dissident behavior during the Prague Spring, he was arrested in August 1969 for one and a half years. In January 1972, he was again sentenced to a prison term, but was allowed after mediation by the World Chess Federation FIDE emigrate to the West and settled in Germany. In October 1975, he received the German citizenship, since he wrote his name Pachmann. He became politically active for Franz Josef Strauss, Hans Filbinger and at times for the Conservative campaign.

Because of its anti -communist attitude were tournaments in which he participated, boycotted by Soviet players. His club, the Solingen SG 1868, tolerated das. Then it took Hartmut Röseler, the Deputy Mayor and City Council of People's Education Berlin -Charlottenburg in 1974 to Berlin. He founded the " Free Society for the Promotion of friendship with the peoples of Czechoslovakia ," which smuggled inter alia, for members of Charter 77 much-needed medicines in the CSSR. Luděk Pachman was chairman Hartmut Röseler Deputy Chairman of the Company. He was rehabilitated in the Czech Republic in late 1989. Then he returned to his homeland in 1998, after which he gave Czech citizenship on and moved permanently to Germany.

Opening theorists

He was regarded as a major theorist in the field of opening and the middlegame and wrote many chess books.

Chess composition

Pachman published some dozen studies, mainly at a young age.

Private

He was married to Eugenie (1925-2011) September 6, 1946. He lived most recently in Hutthurm near Passau. But his tomb is located in Straßkirchen at Passau, where he has lived for a few years. Pachman had a six- year-older brother, the famous chess composer Vladimír Pachman.

Publications

• The title fight. Fischer - Spassky. Rau -Verlag, Dusseldorf and Kempten, 1972
• Now I can talk. A factual report. Rau -Verlag, Dusseldorf 1973
• God does not banish itself. Herder -Verlag, Freiburg 1974
• Checkmate in Prague: memoirs. Faber and Faber, London 1975. ISBN 0-571-10395-2
• Do not let die the hope! Herder -Verlag, Freiburg 1976. ISBN 3-451-07549-0
• Train to train. A life between chess and politics. Herder -Verlag, Freiburg 1982
• Decision games. Rau -Verlag, Dusseldorf 1975
• My 100 best games and my problems. Rau -Verlag, Dusseldorf 1978. ISBN 3-7919-0175-3
• Modern Chess Strategy. 3 volumes. Rau -Verlag, Dusseldorf 1975 - 1977
• Modern chess tactics. 2 vols. Chess Archives, Hamburg 1976 - 1978
• Modern chess theory. 3 volumes. Sports Verlag, Berlin, 1956 ( numerous editions )
• Chess World Cup '78. Korchnoi / Karpov. With V.Kortschnoi. Rau -Verlag, Dusseldorf 1979
• What really happened in Prague. Illusions and facts from the era Dubcek. Verlag Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1978.
• 20 lessons chess. A textbook for beginners. Heyne Verlag, Munich 1984
• Karpov against Kasparov. Chess WM'84. Heyne Verlag, Munich 1985
• How do I list my opponent? Psychology and tricks in chess. Heyne Verlag, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-453-41653-8