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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 after his defection to the West in 1968. He also was an assistant to Bobby Fischer when the enigmatic American player claimed the world championship from Soviet grandmaster Boris Spassky in the dramatic 1972 match where the Cold War played out atop a chess table. ....

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