page_title: Lubomir Kavalek
section_title: Publications
hierarchical_section_title: Lubomir Kavalek / Publications
caption_attribution_description: English: After a simultaneous exhibition for a chess festival in Prague, world champion Vishy Anand analyzes one of the games with Lubomir Kavalek for the public.
context_page_description: Lubomir Kavalek is a Czech-American chess player. He was awarded both the International Master and International Grandmaster titles by FIDE in 1965. He won two Czechoslovak and three U.S. championships, and was ranked as the world's no. 10 player in 1974. He was inducted into the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame in 2001. Kavalek is also a chess coach, organizer, teacher, commentator, author and award-winning columnist.
  Kavalek was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He studied communication and journalism at Charles University. He won the championship of Czechoslovakia in 1962 and 1968. When Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in August 1968, Kavalek was playing in the Akiba Rubinstein Memorial in Poland, in which he finished second. Kavalek, who had always hated Communism, decided to defect to the West rather than return to Soviet-dominated Czechoslovakia. He bought several crates of vodka with his winnings, used them to bribe the border guards, and drove to West Germany. "It was the biggest loss ever suffered by Czechoslovakian chess," wrote Andrew Soltis in "The 100 Best Chess Games of the 20th Century, Ranked."
caption: World Champion Viswanathan Anand analyzes a game with Kavalek in Prague in 2011
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