Luděk Pachman_
Bělá pod Bezdězem
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Bělá pod Bezdězem
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Bělá pod Bezdězem
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Chess
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Czech, German
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Luděk Pachman: Czechoslovak-German chess grandmaster (1924-2003).
Born in Bělá pod Bezdězem (died at age 78).
Biography
Luděk Pachman 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 resumed his chess career with considerable success, including playing in the Interzonal in 1976 and winning the West German Championship in 1978.
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Luděk Pachman was born in Bělá pod Bezdězem.
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