Pachman's Decisive Games

by Luděk Pachman

Book by Pachman, Ludek

Genres: Chess

258 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 1975

About the author

Luděk Pachman (German: Ludek Pachmann) was a Czechoslovak-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.

Reviews

[Alberto · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome. Entertaining and instructive. The annotations are top-notch and stand up remarkably well to Mr. Houdini. The stories are fascinating. There are so few chess books consisting of war stories like this one.