Vasily Vasilievich Smyslov Biography

Moscow, Novodevichye cemetery, Vasily Vasilievich Smyslov March 24, Moscow - March 27, Moscow - Soviet, later a Russian chess player. The USSR champion is a five -time winner of the European Command Championship consisting of the USSR team,,, an international grandmaster Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, an international chess composition arbitrator, chessorist. The biography learned to play chess at 6 years old, Vasily Osipovich Smyslov, was a chess player of the 1st category.

He was engaged in the chess section of the Moscow House of Pioneers. In divided the place at the All-Union tournament of chess players of the 1st category and the 1-2nd at the Moscow Championship. Masters' tournaments: Kuibyshev-2nd place, Sverdlovsk-3-4 m. Bronstein,-1-2th lost an additional match E. Geller,-3-5th, 2-3th place. Having taken 3rd place in the Groningen tournament, the meanings were included in the number of participants in the match-tournament for the championship of the world 2nd place; Since that time, he enters the group of the strongest chess players in the world.

In the middle of the x. Semlov achieved the highest successes: he won the applicants' tournaments and played 3 matches for the world championship with Botvinnik: a draw, victory, won the title of world champion, defeat in the rematch for other competitions for the world championship: Applicants tournaments-3rd m. Interzonal tournaments:-1-4 m. In lost the quarterfinal match of applicants to E.

Geller; In tied a quarter -final match with R. Hubner was recognized as the winner of the lot; won the semifinal match at 3. Riblis; The final match of applicants to Kasparov Vasily Smyslov, an age record holder among participants in the participants in the applicants' tournament, lost. At the time of the match with Kasparov, he turned 62 years old. If we take into account that V.

Slimlov held his first match for the world championship at the age of 27, then here he set a peculiar record - he remained a contender for a long 35 years. As part of the USSR national team, the winner of the 10 World Chess Olympiads -, - 5 command championships of Europe -, the world championship of the world successfully spoke in matches against the US chess players,, UK and Yugoslavia, against the teams of elected chessals in the world and, as well as in other matches.

Vasily Vasilievich Smyslov died on the night of March 27 from cardiovascular insufficiency in the Moscow Botkin Hospital, where he was hospitalized several days earlier in connection with heart complaints. He was buried in the Novodevichy cemetery of Moscow. His talent is universal and exceptional. He could subtly play in the debut, go into a dumb defense, attack violently, or, finally, in cold blood maneuver.

And there is nothing to say about the endgrad - this is his element. Sometimes he made decisions that struck by his depth "Botvinnik. With a classic approach to chess, the interest of Smyslov in a sketch composition is organically connected. Smyslov is the author of books and articles on various issues of chess art. Made a valuable contribution to the theory of the Spanish party, Slavic protection, the Fergose Gambit, developed the system in the protection of Grunfeld, bearing his name.

He sacrificed the music to chess after failure in the competitive selection of the Bolshoi Theater in the vocal class in the city of Vasily Smyslov for the first time in his life gave a solo concert in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.