Luděk Pachman (
German: Ludek Pachman,
May 11 1924, Bělá pod Bezdězem, today
Czech Republic –
March 6 2003,
Passau,
Germany) was a
Czechoslovak-
German chess grandmaster, chess writer, and
political activist. In
1972, after being tortured almost to death and imprisoned by the
Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, he was allowed to immigrate to
West Germany. He lived the remainder of his life there, and resumed his chess career with considerable success, including winning his new country's championship in
1978 and playing in the
Interzonal in
1986.
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