Luděk Pachman

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Luděk Pachman 1972.jpg
Luděk Pachman, 1972
Association CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia (until 1974, 1992) Germany (1975 to 1991, from 1999) Czech Republic (1993 to 1999)
GermanyGermany 
Czech RepublicCzech Republic 
Born May 11, 1924
Bělá pod Bezdězem
Died March 6, 2003
Passau
title International Master (1950)
Grand Master (1954)
Best Elo rating 2520 (January 1976)

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

Chess career

Luděk Pachman

He made his international debut at the tournament in Prague in 1943, which was won by world champion Alexander Alekhine . Between 1946 and 1966 he won the national championship of Czechoslovakia seven times . In 1950 he became an international master , in 1954 a grandmaster .

In 1947 he qualified in the Hilversum zone tournament through his shared 2nd place for the interzonal tournament , where he finished 17th in Saltsjöbaden in 1948 (under 20 participants). Again he qualified by his victory in the zone tournament in 1951 in Marienbad and Prague for the interzonal tournament in 1952 in Saltsjöbaden, in which he reached the shared 11th to 13th place. In 1955 he took part in the interzonal tournament in Gothenburg and came in tied 10th to 11th place. In 1957 he won the zone tournament in Dublin with 14.5 points from 17 games. At the 1958 interzonal tournament in Portorož , he narrowly missed qualifying for the candidates' tournament in seventh place with 11.5 points from 20 games .

Svetozar Gligorić - Luděk Pachman at the European team championship in Oberhausen 1961
Luděk Pachman (1961), an excerpt from the above photos

Pachman took part in all eight Chess Olympiads with Czechoslovakia from 1952 to 1966 and played for Germany at the 1976 Chess Olympiad in Haifa . He took part in three European team championships , 1957 and 1961 for Czechoslovakia and 1977 for Germany. With the Czechoslovak team he reached third place in 1957, in the individual classification he won on the fifth board in 1977.

After leaving for Germany in 1972, he played for the Solingen SG 1868 . In 1974 he moved to Berlin to SC Kreuzberg , for which he played a total of 18 competitions in the four-track 1st Bundesliga . In 1978 he won the championship of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bad Neuenahr . As early as 1975 he finished second behind Walter Browne at the International German Championship in Mannheim .

From 1985 to 1989 he taught at the Altensteig chess high school . At times he played in the league for Thallichtenberg . In the 1995/96 season he played in the 1st Bundesliga for SK Passau . In the Czech extra league he played from 1992 to 1997 for ŠK Vyšehrad , with whom he also took part in the 1992 European Club Cup .

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

His best historical rating was 2695 in December 1959, making him number 14 in the world. Three years before his death, he took part in the 1999 Senior World Chess Championship in Gladenbach , where he was only 91st. Jānis Klovāns won this world championship.

Political life

Pachman was originally a staunch Marxist , but later became a dissident and an avowed Catholic . In 1940 he was arrested for a student demonstration. He was imprisoned for a year and a half in August 1969 for his dissident behavior during the Prague Spring . In January 1972 he was again sentenced to imprisonment, but was allowed to travel to the West after mediation by the world chess federation FIDE and settled in Germany. He received German citizenship on October 21, 1975, and has since written his name Pachmann . He was politically committed to Franz Josef Strauss , Hans Filbinger and at times for the Conservative Action .

Because of his anti-communist attitude, tournaments in which he participated were boycotted by Soviet players . His club, the Solingen SG 1868 , tolerated this. Pachman was asked not to participate in the 1974 tournament in Solingen. Thereupon Hartmut Röseler , the deputy mayor and city councilor of Berlin-Charlottenburg, brought him to Berlin in 1974. He founded the "Free Society for the Promotion of Friendship with the Peoples of Czechoslovakia", which u. a. smuggled urgently needed medicines for members of Charter 77 into the ČSSR. Luděk Pachman was chairman, Hartmut Röseler deputy chairman of the company. At the end of 1989 he was rehabilitated in the Czech Republic. He then returned to his homeland until 1998, after which he gave up his Czech citizenship and finally moved to Germany.

Opening theorist

He was considered a major theoretician in the field of openings and middlegame and wrote many chess books .

Chess composition

Pachman published a few dozen studies, mostly at a young age.

Private

He was married to Eugenie (1925-2011) since September 6, 1946. He last lived in Hutthurm near Passau. His grave is in Straßkirchen near Passau, where he lived for a number of years. Pachman had a six years older brother, the well-known chess composer Vladimír Pachman .

Publications

  • The title fight. Fischer - Spassky . Rau-Verlag, Düsseldorf and Kempten 1972.
  • I can speak now . A factual report. Rau-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1973.
  • God cannot be banished . Herder-Verlag, Freiburg i.Br. 1974.
  • Checkmate in Prague: memoirs . Faber and Faber, London 1975. ISBN 0-571-10395-2 .
  • Do not let hope die! Herder-Verlag, Freiburg 1976. ISBN 3-451-07549-0
  • Step by step. A life between chess and politics . Herder-Verlag, Freiburg i.Br. 1982.
  • Decision-making games . Rau-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1975.
  • My 100 best games and my problems . Rau-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1978. ISBN 3-7919-0175-3 .
  • Modern chess strategy . 3 volumes. Rau-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1975–1977.
  • Modern chess tactics . 2 volumes. Chess Archive, Hamburg 1976–1978.
  • Modern chess theory . 3 volumes. Sportverlag, Berlin 1956. (numerous new editions)
  • Chess World Cup '78. Korchnoi / Karpov . With V. Korchnoi. Rau-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1979.
  • What really happened in Prague. Illusions and Facts from the Dubcek Era . Herder Publishing House, Freiburg im Breisgau 1978.
  • 20 chess lessons. A textbook for beginners . Heyne-Verlag, Munich 1984.
  • Karpov versus Kasparov. World Chess Championship '84 . Heyne-Verlag, Munich 1985.
  • How do I outsmart my opponent? Psychology and tricks in chess . Heyne-Verlag, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-453-41653-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, pp. 87 and 74.
  2. ↑ Ludek Pachman's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. ↑ Ludek Pachman's results at European team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ↑ IGM L. Pachman becomes player trainer at SCK in Kreuzqualle September 1974, p. 4ff. (PDF; 2.2 kB)
  5. ^ Johannes Eising , Karl-Heinz Podzielny , Gerd Treppner: Schach-Bundesliga 1974-80 , Bamberger Schachverlag, Bamberg 1981, ISBN 3-923113-00-5 , page 104.
  6. ↑ 58th German individual chess championship 1978 in Bad Neuenahr on TeleSchach (cross table and games)
  7. ↑ 56th German individual chess championship 1975 in Mannheim on TeleSchach (cross table and games)
  8. ↑ Ludek Pachman's results in the Extraliga on olimpbase.org (English)
  9. ↑ Ludek Pachman's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
  10. ↑ 9th World Championship for Seniors on TeleSchess by Gerhard Hund , who came in 49th.
  11. ↑ International tournament 1974 in Solingen on TeleSchach (table and games)

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personal data
SURNAME Pachman, Luděk
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pachmann, Ludek
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech-German chess players
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Bělá pod Bezdězem
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 2003
Place of death Passau