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II Torneo Internacional de Ajedrez Capablanca in Memoriam. Ludek Pachman. Imprenta Inder, illustr., 1965, Spanish - II Torneo Internacional de Ajedrez Capablanca in Memoriam. Ludek Pachman. Imprenta Inder, illustr., 1965, Spanish La Habana, Cuba, 208 pp, soft cover, 21.5 x 14 cm., Limited edition of 5000 copies. Condition: Wear, rubbing, staining to cover, damping near edge to many first pages, light brown paper. Weight: 180 gr. Ludek Pachman (German: Ludek Pachmann, May 11, 1924 – March 6, 2003)[1] was a Czechoslovak-German chess grandmaster, [2] chess writer, and political activist. In 1972, after being imprisoned and tortured almost to death by the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, [failed verification] 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.