Czech-American Grandmaster dead at 77. Lubomir Kavalek, 1943-2021
People have never heard of Kavalek. (He defected from Czechoslovakia after Soviet tanks rolled into that county. He was actually in Poland at the time competing in a tournament.) He eventually made his way to America.
It was the Cold War and the era of Bobby Fischer. But still, Americans don't care about chess.
When he returned to Czechoslovakia in early 1990 after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Kavalek would say: "I thought I was in some sort of reversed zombie movie because everyone was smiling all the time."
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