Jaroslav Ježek (1926-1998). Zapomenutý šachový mistr z Plzně. (Chess History)

Vlastimil Fiala a Jan Ježek

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592 pages, colour printing, numerous photographs, and a large number of diagrams. The first volume of the definitive biography of IGM in correspondence chess Jaroslav Ježek, covering the period of his chess career from 1943 to 1955. The biography contains practically all of Ježek's games (554) played during this period and provides a detailed account of chess life in the Pilsen region and tournaments in which J. Ježek participated on his way to the top of the Czechoslovak chess scene (Vimperk, Liberec, Harmanec, Tábor, Chomutov, České Budějovice, Brno, the 23rd and 25th Czechoslovak Championships in Prague, etc.). The biography features hundreds of names and games of long-forgotten chess players whom J. Ježek met during his illustrious chess career.