The Opening Game in Chess

by Luděk Pachman, John Littlewood (Translator)

Discusses the basic principles of chess openings and recommends techniques for planning the opening moves of a chess game

Genres: Chess

208 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1982

About the author

Luděk Pachman (German: Ludek Pachmann) was a Czechoslovak-German chess grandmaster, chess writer, and political activist. In 1972, after being imprisoned and tortured almost to death by the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, 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.