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Checkmate in Prague: The Memoirs of a Grandmaster

Ludek Pachman
Reviewed by John C. Campbell
April 1976
Checkmate in Prague: The Memoirs of a Grandmaster
Ludek Pachman
Macmillan
1975
216 pp.
$8.95
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Arrest, prison, and trial as an enemy of the people in Husák's socialist democracy, with some sidelights on the world of international chess, provide the substance of the Czech grandmaster's story.

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