Vintage Allan Troy Chess Book-Ed#5 Ludek Pachman Duo 2/3 The Queen's Gambit

Description: Because of stay-at-home orders in Arizona and its problems, we are lengthening our shipping time window to 20 business days. We regret the inconvenience and hope to return to ten days in the near future. Old greybeards like myself remember fondly the Sixties, that time of Woodstock, peace and love, and the rise of Boris Spassky, his epic struggles with Tigran Petrosian. We also remember the tragedy of the Prague Spring, when the Czech and Slovak people tried to throw off the yoke of Soviet Communism and create what they called "socialism with a human face." But to a tyrant any freedom anywhere is a threat to his power, and Leonid Brezhnev and his cronies sent in Soviet tanks to bloodily crush the Prague Spring. One of the intellectuals who supported Alexander Dubcek was international grandmaster Ludek Pachman. Arrested and put in prison, he struggled for his personal freedom. Written after his escape to West Germany, Checkmate in Prague is not a chess book but a memoir of a time when freedom seemed a faraway dream. Out of print; a must for all serious chess historians. Worth every penny. We pair this with Pachman's Modern Chess Strategy. If you are a fan of the Netflix series The Queen's Gambit, then this book will help once you move past the Scholar's Mate. We combine shipping! To combine, put all you purchases in the shopping cart and press "proceed to checkout." This comes from the private library of Allan Troy, late owner of Troy's Chess Shoppe, Torrance, California. Follow us! We have an ongoing sale of 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st century books! Please check our store to make sure you are doing business with us!

Price: 58 USD

Location: Tubac, Arizona

End Time: 2024-12-25T09:41:31.000Z

Shipping Cost: 7.13 USD