Kalendovsky J. The Complete Games of Oldrich Duras

The Chess Player, 1997. — 182 p. — ISBN: 1-901034-06-2.For Czech chess, Duras has a significance greater than any other player of his generation Until the appearance of Flohr, the Czechs had only one real chess hero and tlrat was Oldrich Duras. The example he set was inspirational, his games are masterpieces and his tenaci$ was proverbial: he could sit at the chess-board for hours on end and set countless traps for his opponent. He was no theoretician and certainly not a draw specialist - he was a fighter. And yet always the perfect gentleman, elegant and modest. His ideas, not only theoretical, are still relevant today and worthy of study. He regarded chess as the best means of bringing all people in the world together and achieving higher human aspirations.