Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:32:06 +0200In memoriam: Lubomír Kaválek, Czech chess grandmaster who helped win ‘Match of the Century’ vs. Soviet champhttps://english.radio.cz/memoriam-lubomir-kavalek-czech-chess-grandmaster-who-helped-win-match-century-vs-8706044© 2026 Radio Prague International Lubomír Kaválek, an international grandmaster of chess who won national championships in Czechoslovakia and in the United States after defecting to the West in 1968, has died at the age of 77. Once ranked no. 10 in the world, after retiring from international competition he worked to popularise the sport, penning a regular column for The Washington Post for a quarter century. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/5b099054a177899c812e46b16fae7ab9.jpg?timestamp=1611150973 In memoriam: Lubomír Kaválek, Czech chess grandmaster who helped win ‘Match of the Century’ vs. Soviet champ https://english.radio.cz/memoriam-lubomir-kavalek-czech-chess-grandmaster-who-helped-win-match-century-vs-8706044 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9