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Vasily Smyslov

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Championship. Vasily and Nadezhda had no children of their own. She often accompanied her husband at major tournaments to provide moral support. However, she remained in Moscow during the 1959 Candidates tournament when, to the consternation of Soviet authorities, the normally staid Smyslov had a flagrant affair with a woman grandmaster that affected his play. Smyslov's stepson, Vladimir Selimanov, represented the USSR at the 1957 World Junior Championship at Toronto, where he finished 4th. Selimanov died by suicide in 1960.
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for players participating in at least four Olympiads. Smyslov also represented the USSR in five European Team Championships, and emerged with a perfect medals' record: he won five team gold medals and five board gold medals. His total score in these events was +19−1=15, for 75.7%. From olimpbase.org,
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1945, Smyslov had the worst result of his career, scoring just 6½/15 in a not especially strong field. It was little better in the Moscow Championship of 1945–46, as he could only score 7½/15 for a tie of 7th–11th places, as Bronstein won. Then in the Moscow Championship of 1946, Smyslov scored just
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As the war ended, organized chess picked up again. But Smyslov's form hit a serious slump in the immediate post-war period. In the 1945 USSR Championship at Moscow (URS-ch14), Smyslov was in the middle of the very powerful field with 8½/17; the winner was Botvinnik, with Boleslavsky and the new star
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1967 and Monte Carlo 1968, the latter two events both being headed by Larsen and Botvinnik. This was also the year he repeated his previous success at Polanica Zdroj, finishing first outright. His next trip to Hastings also ended in triumph, as he took clear first at the 1968–69 edition. The 1960s
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1955, he was sole winner, two clear points ahead of the field. He continued his winning streak at Moscow's Alekhine Memorial in 1956, a victory shared with his constant rival, Botvinnik. During this period, there were several triumphs in his city of birth, when he shared first place with Bronstein
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The Soviet Federation held a further tournament of the top six from the 1940 event, and this was called the 1941 Absolute Championship of the USSR, one of the strongest tournaments ever organized. The format saw each player meet his opponents four times. The players were Botvinnik, Keres, Smyslov,
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in 1950. He occasionally gave recitals during chess tournaments, often accompanied by fellow grandmaster and concert pianist Mark Taimanov. Smyslov once wrote that, as in music, he tried to achieve harmony on the chess board, with each piece assisting the others. He also recorded operatic arias.
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in a Moscow hospital on the morning of 27 March 2010, three days after his 89th birthday. Reports circulated that his final years were spent in near-poverty and that he could not afford badly-needed eye surgery. It was also reported that Smyslov and his wife Nadezhda mostly lived on income from
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1943, Smyslov tied for 3rd–4th places with 8/14. In the 1943–44 Moscow Championship, Smyslov tied for 3rd–4th with 11½/16. He finished second in the 1944 USSR Championship at Moscow (URS-ch13) with 10½/16. He emerged as champion from the 1944–45 Moscow Championship with 13/16. By this juncture,
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For more than 50 years, Smyslov was married to Nadezhda Smyslova, a woman three years his senior whose first husband was executed during a Stalinist purge in the early 1940s. They met in 1948. Nadezhda had a son from her first marriage, an aspiring chess player who competed at the World Junior
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Candidates' tournament without needing to play in qualifying events. Smyslov scored 10/18 for third place, behind Bronstein and Boleslavsky, who tied for first place. Smyslov's third place automatically qualified him into the next Candidates' tournament. He was awarded the International
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World War II forced a halt to most international chess, but several tournaments involving Soviet players only were still organized. Smyslov was exempted from military service due to being severely nearsighted, and he won the 1942 Moscow Championship outright with a powerful 12/15. At
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His results showed a consistent pattern of high finishes against strong company, but with virtually no tournament championships. Smyslov had never actually won an adult tournament (other than the Moscow City Championship) before he played in the 1948 World Championship Tournament.
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and enjoyed some notable successes. In 1940, while still a teenager, he finished third behind Bondarevsky and Lilienthal. At the 13th Championship in 1944, he placed second behind Botvinnik and in 1947, shared third with Bondarevsky, finishing behind Keres and Boleslavsky.
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Smyslov's competitive chess experiences began at the age of 14, when he started taking part in classification tournaments. In 1938, when he was 17, Smyslov won the USSR Junior Championship. That same year, he tied for 1st–2nd places in the
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With one of the deepest pre-game home preparations ever seen, Smyslov unleashes a chain of tactical wizardry, including a queen sacrifice, to record a beautiful win which fundamentally changed the theory in this
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Smyslov remained on FIDE's top 100 list until he was 70 years old. His tournament appearances were fewer in the 1990s, but results included a share of first place at Buenos Aires 1990 and a share of second at
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Smyslov did not qualify for another World Championship, but continued to play in World Championship qualifying events. He was a Candidate in 1959, but finished fourth in the qualifying tournament held in
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He was a joint winner of the contest in 1949 and again in 1955 (with Bronstein and Geller respectively). Whilst the 1949 title was shared, the 1955 title was awarded to Geller after a play-off.
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once released an EP sung entirely by Smyslov on their record label imprint Interpolis Verzekeringen to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Interpolis chess tournament. The EP, titled
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Smyslov maintained an active tournament schedule throughout the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, registering many top three finishes in some of the most prestigious tournaments of the period.
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While less prolific than in previous decades, Smyslov played many strong tournaments in the 1970s and even into the 1980s and beyond. He was joint runner-up with Hort, Gligoric and
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A variation of the Closed Ruy Lopez is named after him. The line runs 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 0-0 9.h3 h6. In the
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Smyslov had advanced into the group of the top three Soviet players, along with Botvinnik and Keres, who were playing in Nazi-occupied Europe during the war.
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In a vital late-tournament encounter, Smyslov fights off Keres' very dangerous attack, to put himself in the driver's seat towards winning the tournament.
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Nevertheless, Smyslov's earlier strong results secured him one of the five Soviet places in the first really strong post-war international tournament, at
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1962 (behind Polugaevsky). He traveled again to Hastings at the end of 1962, and scored third place behind Gligoric and Kotov. In 1963, he was second at
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over the New Year of 1986–87 and shared second spot with Hort, Chernin and Spassky, behind Ribli. At Hastings in 1988–89, he took a share of third with
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Mikhail Botvinnik vs Vasily Smyslov, World Championship Match, Moscow 1954, game 14, King's Indian Defence, Fianchetto Variation (E68), 0–1
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Once he was back playing in Soviet events, however, Smyslov found it tough going for a while. In the next Soviet Championship (URS-ch15,
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8½/15, for a tie of 3rd–6th places, as Bronstein won again. During this period he scored just 31/62 in those four tournaments, for 50%.
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Smyslov played for the USSR in both the 1970 and 1984 matches against teams representing the Rest of the World. He was on board six at
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Vasily Smyslov vs Zoltan Ribli, World Championship Candidates Semi-final, London 1983, Queens Gambit, Semi-Tarrasch Defence (), 1-0
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Vasily Smyslov vs Mikhail Tal, Candidates' Tournament, Yugoslavia 1959, Sicilian Defence, Najdorf / Opecensky Variation (B92), 1–0
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Paul Keres vs Vasily Smyslov, Zurich Candidates' Tournament 1953, English Opening: Anglo-Indian Defense. Hedgehog System (A17) 0–1
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Much later in his career he showed that he could still mount a credible challenge; he took a share of third place in 1969 (behind
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Robert Fischer vs Vasily Smyslov, Candidates' Tournament, Yugoslavia 1959, Sicilian Defence, Fischer / Sozin Variation (B86), 0–1
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as champion. His selection was questioned in some quarters, but this criticism was amply rebutted when he finished second behind
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Vasily Smyslov vs Mikhail Botvinnik, World Championship Match, Moscow 1954, game 9, French Defence, Winawer Variation (C17), 1–0
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The 16-year-old Fischer had honed this opening line into a formidable weapon, but here Smyslov shows him a few new wrinkles.
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and Tal at Leningrad in 1977, when all three eclipsed the efforts of then–world champion Anatoly Karpov. In 1978, he won at
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The two players were fighting for the right to qualify, late in the tournament, and Smyslov finds a way to come out on top.
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at the inaugural edition of the Moscow Central Chess Club international tournament series (sometimes also referred as an
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In 1983, at the age of 62, he reached the Candidates' Final (the match to determine who plays the champion, in that case
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Tigran Petrosian vs Vasily Smyslov, USSR Championship, Moscow 1949, Sicilian Defence, Scheveningen Variation (B84), 0–1
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on eight occasions (1948, 1950, 1953, 1956, 1959, 1965, 1983, and 1985). Smyslov twice tied for first place at the
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Smyslov blows up one of the World Champion's favourite variations with a queen sacrifice to score a stunning win.
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Vasily Smyslov vs Anatoly Karpov, USSR Championship, Leningrad 1971, English Opening / Queen's Gambit (A34), 1–0
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His overall Olympiad score is an imposing 90 points in 113 games (+69−2=42), for 79.6%. This performance is the
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Karpov was the young rising star, but here he lasts for only 29 moves against Smyslov, who is 30 years older.
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Vasily Smyslov vs Efim Geller, USSR Championship, Moscow 1951, Sicilian Defence, Closed Variation (B26), 1–0
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With his second-place finish from the 1948 World Championship, Smyslov was admitted directly into the 1950
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well after the age of sixty. Despite failing eyesight, he remained active in the occasional composition of
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Smyslov used the Closed Sicilian periodically throughout his life, and made many important improvements.
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is named after him, which proceeds with the moves 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.Nf3 0-0 5.Bg5 d6 6.e3.
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1972, he was second equal with Larsen, behind Portisch and in 1973, topped the Capablanca Memorial in
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Vasily Smyslov vs David Bronstein, Candidates' Tournament, Amsterdam 1956, English Opening (A34), 1–0
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The first meeting of two future World Champions goes to Smyslov in a precise positional performance.
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1971, he came third at the Alekhine Memorial (Moscow) in the same year, behind Karpov and Stein. At
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medals won is an all-time record. In five European Team Championships, Smyslov won ten gold medals.
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Vasily Smyslov vs Boris Spassky, Moscow vs Leningrad team match 1960, Alekhine's Defence (B05), 1–0
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Memorial tournament, Moscow 1947, Smyslov tied for 3rd–4th places, with 10/15, as Botvinnik won.
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Smyslov was born in Moscow. He first became interested in chess at the age of six. His father,
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It was their first-ever meeting, and the young star Tal gets a sharp lesson from the veteran.
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Smyslov was known for his positional style, and, in particular, his precise handling of the
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and studies until shortly before his death in 2010. Besides chess, he was an accomplished
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Memorial, was won by Botvinnik with 14½/19, half a point ahead of former World Champion
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A baritone, Smyslov only decided upon a chess career after a failed audition with the
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in 1970, and on board four at London in 1984, with the Soviets winning both matches.
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Memorial) in 1952, behind Keres and Geller. In 1953, he won a training tournament in
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His good form continued throughout the 1960s. There were shares of second place at
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Spassky tries the unusual Alekhine's Defence and is beaten in fairly short order.
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1947, Smyslov scored 8/13, tying for 4th–6th places, as Keres won again. At
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at his 80th birthday and presents him with a book of his own chess studies.
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1974; at the Venice tournament of the same year, he finished second behind
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The finest game of Smyslov's semi-final win, featuring several sacrifices.
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renting their apartment and that no one checked on them or provided care.
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Notable outcomes for 1980 included joint first places at San Miguel (with
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The Life and Games of Vasily Smyslov. Volume 1: The Early Years 1921–1948
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1947, Smyslov scored 6/9 to tie for 2nd–5th places; the winner was
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6½–4½ in the semifinal, but drew his quarter-final match against
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in 1984 and first equal at Copenhagen (Politiken Cup) 1986 with
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Smyslov was one of the five players selected to compete for the
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1947), he tied for 3rd–4th places with 12/19, as Keres won. At
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Smyslov represented the Soviet Union a total of nine times at
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1953, with 18/28, two points ahead of Keres, Bronstein, and
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strength at age 20, a very rare achievement at that time.
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1957: board 1, 3½/6 (+2−1=3), board and team gold medals;
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1973: board 6, 4/5 (+3−0=2), board and team gold medals.
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1965: board 4, 6/9 (+3−0=6), board and team gold medals;
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1961: board 5, 8/9 (+7−0=2), board and team gold medals;
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After missing out on selection in 1962, he returned for
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Open of 1976 (Petrosian won). He finished third behind
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1942, he placed second with 8/11. In a strong field at
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Karpov (left), Euwe (bottom) and Smyslov at the 1977
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tournament to determine who should succeed the late
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Then followed a second place at the 462:occupying second and third places. At 572:Botvinnik vs. Smyslov (right) at the 7: 1419:. New York: Dover Publications, Inc. 401:In his first Soviet final, the 1940 81:adding citations to reliable sources 27:Soviet chess grandmaster (1921–2010) 1688:. New York: Dover. pp. 58–75. 1096:In 1991, Smyslov won the inaugural 975:(Sigeman) in 1997, behind Hellers. 955:, Pigusov and Cserna. He played at 1548:. president.org.ua (26 March 2008) 1250:Smyslov with his wife at the 1956 1037:here is his European teams' data. 931:, behind Petrosian, and second at 314:(1949, 1955), and his total of 17 25: 1851:List of World Chess Championships 1624:. Elk and Ruby Publishing House. 1278:(Moravian Chess Publishing House) 1271:(Moravian Chess Publishing House) 797:. In 1967, he was second (behind 2511: 2502: 2501: 1465:. 29 August 1999. 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Russell Enterprises. 545:on its inaugural list. 403:USSR Chess Championship 1763:Smyslov's Chess Record 1558:ГЛАВА 1 ЖИЗНЬ И СУДЬБА 1288:Vasily Smyslov (1995) 1281:Vasily Smyslov (1997) 1274:Vasily Smyslov (2003) 1267:Vasily Smyslov (2003) 1254: 1163:theory, including the 1124:Chess style and legacy 1093: 1088:Smyslov congratulates 841: 729:and finished third at 616: 576: 513:World title challenger 2598:World chess champions 2583:Russian chess writers 2578:Russian chess players 1887:Candidates Tournament 1662:World Chess Champions 1460:"I'M SORRY, FRANK..." 1252:Candidates Tournament 1249: 1203:2001: A Space Odyssey 1192:King's Indian Defense 1087: 963:and Speelman, behind 919:, Jaime Emma) and at 836: 610: 571: 550:Candidates Tournament 2593:Soviet chess players 1791:World Chess Champion 1768:Visa with photo 1962 1622:Smyslov on the Couch 1157:Nimzo-Indian Defense 677:Soviet Championships 671:Soviet Championships 597:Smyslov's Best Games 369:, the text-books of 300:World Chess Champion 298:who was the seventh 77:improve this article 2568:Chess theoreticians 1469:on 12 October 2007. 1397:. 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