In the chessgames statistics with the players have the most games in database he is ranked 8th (behind Korchnoi, Timman, Karpov, Gligoric, Tal, Smyslov and Portisch), in the new chessbase megadatabase 2007 he is even on position 6 of all time with already more than 3'000 games, not to mention lots of his exhibitions & (blind) simuls, cp. the first posting of <Honza Cervenka> in this (maybe - so far - too shorten) thread. Well, enough statistical rhubarb, just two further remarks:

As already pointed out by <Gypsy> earlier, Hort played on board 4 for the "Rest of the World" against "USSR", beating individually his opponent Polugaevsky with 2.5 to 1.5. in this famous match in 1970 at Belgrade.

Hort means that it's a torture to compete with especially opponents like Mecking and Browne. According to Hort Mecking tries to disturb his opponents in various ways when he has little time left on the clock, while Browne is doing his best to follow Fischer's example when it comes to eccentricities.

Hort claims that he lost a game against Browne after the latter was abusing Arbiter, clock and opponent for several minutes while Hort tried to make his moves, and ended up hanging a piece.

<I believe that Chess possesses a magic that is also a help in advanced age. A rheumatic knee is forgotten during a game of Chess and other events can seem quite unimportant in comparison with a catastrophe on the chessboard>

:D

In der mittelböhmischen Stadt Kladno wurde Vlastimil Hort 1944 geboren. Als sechsjähriger erkrankte er an Gelbsucht und kam ins Krankenhaus. Dort brachte ihm ein Arzt Schach bei. Die Faszination des Spiels ließ ihn nicht mehr los. Mit 14 Jahren gewann Vlastimil die tschechische Juniorenmeisterschaft.

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Die Niederschlagung des Prager Frühlings bewog Hort, Schachprofi zu werden, um nicht mit den neuen Machthabern kollaborieren zu müssen.

Photo of the 16 year old <Vlastimil> at the Chess Olympiade 1960 in Leipzig (DDR)

Maybe this year I will get past problem 100.

Hmmm... in that case it sounds like "whore", doesn't it? I think I'll keep calling him "HoarT", with a big T at the end!>

First. Go right ahead with your <HoarT>, it will be about right.

Second. By 'non-sounding', I did not mean 'silent'. Instead, I was referring to a pronunciation based classification of consonants: sounding = (d,v,...), non-sounding = (t,f,...).

In Czech, despite being a generally a phonetic language, non-accented 'sounding' consonants at the end of the words are pronounced as if they were their 'non-sounding' siblings:

d -> t
v -> f
etc

Really the hardest problem book I've ever seen- anyone sub expert level should not even try. IF you love a challenge pick up this book.