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A two-time Czech champion, three-time U.S. champion and assistant to Bobby Fischer, he penned a regular chess column for The Washington Post from 1995 until 2010.
Lubomir Kavalek, international chess grandmaster, dies at 77 Emily Langer Shortly after Lubomir Kavalek was named an international grandmaster of chess in 1965, he was aboard a train en route to Prague when a countryman, the celebrated Czech player Karel Opocensky, made an observation that proved prophetic. “You are now nailed to the chess board, young man,” Mr. Kavalek recalled the older man telling him. For the next half-century, until his death on Jan. 18 at 77, Mr. Kavalek was an eminence of the sport — a two-time Czech champion and a three-time U.S. champion...