Vladimir von Pachmann or Pachman ( 27 July 18486 January 1933 ) was a pianist of Russian-German ethnicity, especially noted for performing the works of Chopin, and also for his eccentric on-stage style.

Luděk Pachman ( German: Ludek Pachman, May 11, 1924, Bělá pod Bezdězem, today Czech Republic – March 6, 2003, Passau, Germany ) was a Czechoslovak-German chess grandmaster, chess writer, and political activist.

Pachman was politically active throughout his life, first as a Communist and later as a staunch anti-Communist.

In 1972, Pachman was finally allowed to emigrate to West Germany.

Pachman was also a prolific author, publishing eighty books in five languages.

He also won games against Miguel Najdorf, Joaquim Durao and Ludek Pachman.

* Pachman, Ludek 1975 / 78.

He met some distinguished opposition as a result, losing games against Pal Benko and Ludek Pachman at Moscow 1956, Oscar Panno at Munich 1958, Mikhail Tal and Miguel Najdorf at Leipzig 1960, and Lev Polugaevsky at Havana 1966.

Pachman finished ninth in the nineteen-player tournament.

" I don't have to tell you how a beginner from a village chess club felt at that time ", Pachman wrote.

Pachman went on to become one of the world's leading players.

Pachman won the Czechoslovak championship seven times between 1946 and 1966.

Pachman considered Modern Chess Strategy, published in 1959, to be his best book.

* Ludek Pachman vs Oleg Neikirch, Portoroz 1958, Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch ( D41 ), 1 – 0 Pachman attacks his opponent's castled king, offering the sacrifice of both bishops.

See also this account of a swindle by Pachman, who deliberately wasted almost an hour on his clock in order to get into time trouble and thereby lull his opponent into being swindled.

Another of Bobby Ang's excellent article and analysis of Balinas ' " invigorating upset win " over GM Ludek Pachman a former Czechoslovakian champion who emigrated and played for Germany during the 1976 Haifa Olympiad.

Pachman, Ludek ( 2520 )-Balinas, Rosendo Carreon ( 2365 ) Haifa Olympiad ( Men ) ( 5 ), 30. 10. 1976

Ludek Pachman is an openings expert and his theoretical knowledge covers a wide range of kingside and queenside openings.

18 ... Bc5 19. Be5 looks like Pachman here misses 19. Bxh7 +!

Its Editorial Board included Raymond Aron, George Bailey, Saul Bellow, Józef Czapski, Robert Conquest, Milovan Djilas, Alexander Galich, Jerzy Giedroye, Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski, Eugène Ionesco, Arthur Koestler, Naum Korzhavin, Mihajlo Mihajlov, Ludek Pachman, Alexander Sakharov, Alexander Schmemann, Zïnaida Schakovskoy, Wolf Siedler, Ignazio Silone, Strannik, and Carl-Gustav Ströhm.

Morgan hesitated, thinking that if this was a trick, it was a good one.

But she'd known plenty of handsomer guys, and, conceding his good looks, what was there left??

An inquest was held, and after a good deal of testimony about the anonymous notes, the county coroner estimated that the shooting had been done from a distance of 300 yards.

Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.

The expression was his trade-mark, his open sesame to good luck, and his prayer that pilot and plane would always return.

There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.

I didn't get a good look at him at all, his back was to me, and I was so scared It was just somebody in a man's suit.

`` They knew I was a good sharecrop farmer back in Carolina, but out West was a chance to build a real farm of our own.

For a while he was content to let events develop in their good time.

Something was beginning to stir and come alive in her, too ( it may have been there for a good while, since she was twenty now ; ;

Though sex in some form or other enters into all human activity and it was a good thing that Freud emphasized this aspect of human nature, it is fantastic to explain everything in terms of sex.

A smart, shrewd and ambitious young man, well connected, and with a knack for getting in the good graces of important people, he was bound to go far.

His father was a good friend of Rabbi Szold, and Joe lived with the Szolds for a while.

Her mother was a good manager and established a millinery business in Milwaukee.

He was right, and Peter Marshall could not help but recall Andrew Cordier's words on the subject, `` Well, it seemed as good a place as any to do the job ''.

It was a good report, he did all he could to make it a good report.

Steele apparently professed his sentiments in this book too openly and honestly for his own good, since the government was soon to use it as evidence against him in his trial before the House.

He also disliked Runyon, for no good reason other than the fact that the Demon's talent was so marked as to put him well beyond the Hetman's say-so or his supervision.

Another good friend of the Coolidges' was George B. Harvey, who was the Ambassador to Great Britain from 1921 to 1923.

Meynell's remedy for Thompson's despondent mood was typically practical.

One effect of the spirited give-and-take of these discussions was to focus attention on practical applications and the necessity of being armed with the facts: knowledge of the destructive force of even the tiniest `` tactical '' atomic weapon would have a bearing on judgments as to the advisability of its use -- to defend Berlin, for example ; ;

In working out the practical legal conclusions President Waters was not thinking only of this pilot project, for it is planned to duplicate this program or system in other builder developments nationally.

He was also at the same time gaining practical experience as a safe breaker and highwayman, and learning how to shoot to kill from a Neanderthal convicted murderer named Gene Geary, later committed to Chester Asylum as a homicidal maniac, but whose eyes misted with tears when the young Dion sang a ballad about an Irish mother in his clear and syrupy tenor.

So, for all practical purposes, it was an independent nation and by now had its own organized government ( unrecognized outside its own borders ).

During the 17th century, practical alchemy started to evolve into modern chemistry, as it was renamed by Robert Boyle, the " father of modern chemistry ".< ref name =" Deem, Rich 2005 ">

The 1976 definition of the astronomical unit was incomplete, in particular because it does not specify the frame of reference in which time is to be measured, but proved practical for the calculation of ephemerides: a fuller definition that is consistent with general relativity was proposed, and " vigorous debate " ensued until in August 2012 the International Astronomical Union adopted the current definition of 1 astronomical unit = 149597870700 meters.

These " conversations " as he called them, were more or less informal talks on a great range of topics, spiritual, aesthetic and practical, in which he emphasized the ideas of the school of American Transcendentalists led by Emerson, who was always his supporter and discreet admirer.

As editor of the Journal für praktische Chemie ( Journal of practical chemistry, from 1870 to 1884 ), Kolbe was sometimes so severely critical of the work of others, especially after about 1874, that some wondered whether he might have been suffering a mental illness.

Its aim was to enable people to write all the African languages for practical and scientific purposes without diacritics.

Fleming was modest about his part in the development of penicillin, describing his fame as the " Fleming Myth " and he praised Florey and Chain for transforming the laboratory curiosity into a practical drug.

An International Council ( IC ) was set up to discuss and decide major issues regarding the WSF, while the local organizing committee in the host city is responsible for the practical preparations of the event.

This word was first used by Robert Blair ( d. 1828 ), professor of practical astronomy at Edinburgh University, to characterize a superior achromatism, and, subsequently, by many writers to denote freedom from spherical aberration.

In 1745, a year after his death, the scale was reversed by Carl Linnaeus to facilitate more practical measurement.

It was " intended to afford a medium for the presentation and analysis of any and all questions of interest or importance in pure and applied Mathematics, embracing especially all new and interesting discoveries in theoretical and practical astronomy, mechanical philosophy, and engineering ".

Use of two guns was therefore a reasonable compromise, as this allowed one gun to be cocked as the other is being fired, in practical terms doubling the rate of fire and the available number of bullets.

Though the Lind was not the first it was the most practical and best known anemometer of this type.

It was heavy, large, expensive and not practical in close combat compared to the Sparrow or AMRAAM.

In 1714, when he was appointed rector of the university, he succeeded Govert Bidloo in the chair of practical medicine, and in this capacity he introduced the modern system of clinical instruction.

Franklin was foundational in defining the American ethos as a marriage of the practical values of thrift, hard work, education, community spirit, self-governing institutions, and opposition to authoritarianism both political and religious, with the scientific and tolerant values of the Enlightenment.

Additionally, Borland was known for its practical and creative approach towards software piracy and intellectual property ( IP ), introducing its " Borland no-nonsense license agreement ".

There is no evidence that the term was a title that had any practical use, with implications of formal rights, powers and office, or even that it had any existence before the 9th-century.

the sanitary epidemiological reconnaissance was suggested as well-tested means for enhancing the monitoring of infections and parasitic agents, for practical implementation of the International Health Regulations ( 2005 ).