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Vasily Smyslov

XIV Schach-Olympiade Leipzig, 1960

VASILY SMYSLOV (born Mar-24-1921, died Mar-27-2010, 89 years old) Russia PRONUNCIATION: [what is this?] Vasily Vasiliyevich Smyslov was born in Moscow. His father Vasily Osipovich Smyslov was a strong amateur player. A talented singer, Smyslov narrowly missed joining the Bolshoi Opera. Opera's loss was the chess world's gain. He was awarded the Soviet Grandmaster title in 1941. He won the Moscow Championship in 1942 and 1944-45. He first beat Botvinnik at the 1943 Moscow Championship. Smyslov finished second to Botvinnik at the FIDE World Championship Tournament (1948). He shared first with David Bronstein at the USSR Championship (1949). He won the Chigorin Memorial (1951) by 1.5 points. Smyslov earned the right to challenge Botvinnik for the world championship by winning the Zuerich Candidates (1953), two points ahead of Bronstein, Samuel Reshevsky, and Paul Keres. He and Botvinnik tied the Botvinnik - Smyslov World Championship Match (1954), which resulted in Botvinnik retaining the title. Smyslov shared first place with Keres at Hastings (1954/55). He tied for first with Efim Geller at the USSR Championship (1955), but lost the playoff. Smyslov won the Amsterdam Candidates (1956) by 1.5 points over Keres, thus again securing the right to challenge Botvinnik. He and Botvinnik shared first at the Alekhine Memorial (1956). Finally Smyslov wrested the world championship from Botvinnik, winning the Botvinnik - Smyslov World Championship Match (1957) by three points. Under the then-existing rules, Botvinnik had the right to a rematch a year later. It proved a disaster for Smyslov. He lost the first three games of the Smyslov - Botvinnik World Championship Rematch (1958), and went on to lose the match, and the championship, by two points. Smyslov tied for first with Bronstein and the young superstar Boris Spassky at the Alekhine Memorial (1959). He was only able to finish fourth at the Bled-Zagreb-Belgrade Candidates (1959), won by the meteoric Mikhail Tal, who would go on to defeat Botvinnik for the championship. Smyslov shared first with Ratmir Kholmov at the Central Chess Club International (1960), and with Evgeni Vasiukov at the Central Chess Club International (1961). He won Moscow (1963), a point ahead of Tal. He won Stockholm (1963/64), half a point ahead of Isaac Boleslavsky. Smyslov once again put himself on the road to a potential world championship when he won the Amsterdam Interzonal (1964) (tied with Tal, Spassky, and the Dane Bent Larsen). He tied for first with Wolfgang Uhlmann of East Germany at the Capablanca Memorial (1964). He suffered a stinging defeat in the Geller - Smyslov Candidates Quarterfinal (1965), losing by three points. Smyslov won many more tournaments. He won Havana (1965), half a point ahead of Geller, Robert James Fischer, and Borislav Ivkov. He won Mar del Plata (1966), ahead of Leonid Stein. He won Monte Carlo 1969. In 1982 at the Las Palmas Interzonal Tournament, Smyslov finished second and qualified for the Candidates Matches, and at age 61 advanced past Robert Huebner in the quarter-finals (winning the spin of a roulette wheel to decide the tied match), then defeating Zoltan Ribli in the semi-final, before losing to challenger Garry Kasparov, just over a third his age, in the final. Smyslov crowned a remarkable career by becoming the first Senior World Champion at Bad Worishofen in 1991. Crosstables and other info can be found here: [rusbase-1] [rusbase-2] http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/48$... [rusbase-3] http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/525... http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/525... [rusbase-4] [rusbase-5] http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/555... [rusbase-6] http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/646... Smyslov Videos: Singing, playing piano, beating Botvinnik (1957) http://www.britishpathe.com/record.... Receiving World Championship Laurels (1957) http://www.britishpathe.com/record.... Walking with Keres in the Netherlands (1948) http://www.britishpathe.com/record.... Wikipedia article: Vasily Smyslov ############################## <Revision and Expansion> of this bio under construction by JFQ. Beginnings His father was an "Economic Engineer" working in the "Department for the Preparation of Securities" <125 Games, 1> Lived in a small flat in an old house on the outskirts of Moscow. Highlight of our life was a 'Schroeder' piano, on which my father used to play. He began teaching me piano and chess <125 Games, 2> Autumn 1938- 1st year student at the Moscow School of Aviation <Romanovsky xii> "Starting in 1948, I seriously studied singing under Professor Konstantin Zlobin, whom I met by chance in Leningrad in 1947, when I was playing in the 15th USSR Championship. For many years I took lessons from him, and even appeared in a singing competition in the Bolshoi Theatre. But, as in the life of my father, singing remained something for my own satisfaction." <125 Games, 17> Father Vasily Osipovich Smyslov taught him to play chess at age 7. <125 Games, 1> After winning a rook odds match against his Uncle Kirill, he was given Alekhine's "Best Games" as a prize. Inscription: 'To the winner of the match, to future champion Vasya Smyslov' <125 Games, 1> Soviet Grandmaster Summer of 1935 participated in 1st chess event. Unrated players in chess club of Gorky Park. He won this and two more, by the end of the summer he was 3d Category. <125 Games, 4-5> Fall 1935, joins the Moskvoretsky House of Pioneers. <125 Games, 5> "In 1936 he entered the second category, and in the autumn of the same year the first category." <Romanovsky, xi> In 1937- 1. <Moskvoretsky House of Pioneers Championship 1937> (Fall) 1st, 11-0. Had earned <1st Category rank> in autumn 1936 -<Smyslov> on his "happiest moment": At the championship of the Young Pioneers Stadium, where I won all 11 games, didn't give away a single draw, and there were strong players there, almost all of them became masters, I kept the tournament table from that event." <Sosonko> pp.126-27 Jan. 1938- Leningrad- Smyslov won the USSR under 18 Championship. <Averbakh p.34> Grigory Levenfish gave him 1st prize of an inscribed clock, which "continues to count out the time of my chess career.<125 Games, 9> Shared 1-3 places with Anatoly Ufimtsev and Mark Stolberg in the <Gorky National 1st Category Tournament 1938 (2d group)> [rusbase-7] This result earned him the Candidate Master title. <Romanovsky, xi> Shared 1st with Sergey Belavenets, ahead of Grandmaster Andre Lilienthal at <18th Moscow Championship 1938>, awarded Master Title. <125 Games, 9> <[rusbase-8]> Finished 3d in the USSR Championship (1940), Finished 3d in the USSR Absolute Championship (1941) "in accordance with the norms in existence, for these two successes I was awarded the title of USSR grandmaster." <125 Games, 9-10> 1st International tournament Groningen 1946. Groningen (1946) "third place... behind Mikhail Botvinnik and Max Euwe opened the way for my participation in the battle for the World Championship." <125 Games, 11> World Champion Smyslov's 2d in the <1948 WCC> seeded him into the <Budapest 1950 Candidates Tournament>. Budapest Candidates (1950) They were to be joined by the unsuccessful invitees to the 1948 Championship, but only Vasily Smyslov and Paul Keres took their places.<nescio> Smyslov: "3d place in the <Budapest 1950 Candidates Tournament> gave me the automatic right to a place in the next Candidates Tournament." <125 Games, 12> 1st in the <Zurich Candidates Tournament 1953> Zuerich Candidates (1953) 1954 <World Championship Match> Botvinnik - Smyslov World Championship Match (1954) Drew Botvinnik, who retained championship on draw odds. Candidates Cycling Theoretical Contributions -<Grunfeld Defense, Smyslov variation (D99)> 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Qb3 dxc4 6.Qxc4 0-0 7.e4 Bg4 8.Be3 <Nfd7> http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... This plan was developed in preparation for the <1948 WCC>. Smyslov: "The point of the plan, involving the transfer of the king's knight to b6, and the development of the other knight at c6, lies in piece pressure on White's pawn centre."> <125 Games, 11> === -<Ruy Lopez, Closed, Smyslov Defense (C93)> 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> http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... === -<Slav Defense: Smyslov Variation (D16)> 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 dxc4 5.a4 <Na6> === -<Ruy Lopez Fianchetto Defense (C60)> 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 g6 Smyslov revived this line at <Szolnok 1975> === Treachery === Personality ############################# Sources [<1> Vasily Smyslov, "Smyslov's 125 Selected Games" Ken Neat transl. Cadogen, 1983 2 P.A. Romanovsky, "Vassily Vassilievitch Smyslov." Published in Vasily Smyslov, "My Best Games of Chess (1935-1957)" P.H. Clarke ed., transl. (Routledge and Kegan Paul 1958), pp. xi-xxvii (First published as "Izbrannie partii" in Russian in 1952) 3 P.H. Clarke, "V.V. Smyslov, 1952-57." Published in Vasily Smyslov, "My Best Games of Chess (1935-1957)" 4 Yuri Averbakh "Centre-Stage and Behind the Scenes" Steve Giddins transl. New in Chess, 2011 5 Genna Sosonko "The World Champions I Knew." New in Chess, 2013 6 Edward Winter, ed. "World Chess Champions." Pergamon Press, 1981 7 Andrew Soltis, "Soviet Chess 1917-1991" McFarland, 1997 8 Harry Golombek "The World Chess Championships of 1957 and 1958" Hardinge Simpole, 1958 9 Smyslov Interview by Vladimir Anzikeev for "Shakhmatnaya Nedelia" (Chess Week). Translated by Zoya Vlassova. First appeared in "Chess Today" No. 1045. 10 Mikhail Botvinnik, "Botvinnik's Complete Games (1942-1956) and Selected Writings (Part 2)" Kean Neat ed., transl. Olomouc, 2012. -Originally published in Mikhail Botvinnik, "Match Botvinnik-Smyslov" (Fizkultura i sport, Moscow 1955) 11 Mikhail Botvinnik "Achieving the Aim" Bernard Cafferty, transl. Pergamon, 1981 12 Dmitry Plisetsky and Sergey Voronkov, "Russians vs. Fischer" Ken Neat transl. Everyman Chess, 2005 Tournament Sources [-<18th Moscow Championship 1938> <[rusbase-9]> -<Gorky National 1st Category Tournament 1938 (2d group)> <[rusbase-10]> ############################ Last updated: 2025-03-30 05:38:14

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page 1 of 113; games 1-25 of 2,821  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. K Gerasimov vs Smyslov 0-1 22 1935 Moscow Pioneer Home championsip D05 Queen's Pawn Game 2. G Dzagurov vs Smyslov   1-0 32 1935 Moscow Pioneer Home championship C29 Vienna Gambit 3. S Belavenets vs Smyslov   ½-½ 34 1937 Clock simul, 6b E32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical 4. Smyslov vs Rekach 1-0 23 1938 18th Ch Moscow (sf - 5) B10 Caro-Kann 5. Smyslov vs Averbakh 1-0 24 1938 junior tt E17 Queen's Indian 6. N Zanozdra vs Smyslov 1-0 30 1938 Ch URS (juniors) B17 Caro-Kann, Steinitz Variation 7. Smyslov vs V Zak 1-0 36 1938 All Union First Category A43 Old Benoni 8. Smyslov vs N Rudnev   1-0 43 1938 All Union First Category C10 French 9. Smyslov vs Lilienthal 1-0 56 1938 18th Ch Moscow C11 French 10. V Baturinsky vs Smyslov 0-1 34 1938 18th Ch Moscow C45 Scotch Game 11. Smyslov vs M Yudovich Sr   1-0 49 1938 18th Ch Moscow B20 Sicilian 12. Smyslov vs S Kogan   ½-½ 37 1938 18th Ch Moscow C42 Petrov Defense 13. Smyslov vs A Chistiakov ½-½ 32 1938 18th Ch Moscow C12 French, McCutcheon 14. A S Sergeev vs Smyslov   1-0 64 1938 18th Ch Moscow A47 Queen's Indian 15. Smyslov vs I Kan   ½-½ 31 1939 Leningrad / Moscow training C43 Petrov, Modern Attack 16. Smyslov vs A Konstantinopolsky 1-0 57 1939 Leningrad / Moscow training C77 Ruy Lopez 17. Alatortsev vs Smyslov 0-1 40 1939 Leningrad / Moscow training E47 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3 18. Smyslov vs V Makogonov ½-½ 49 1939 Leningrad / Moscow training B10 Caro-Kann 19. S Belavenets vs Smyslov 0-1 36 1939 Leningrad / Moscow training D02 Queen's Pawn Game 20. Smyslov vs Ragozin 0-1 35 1939 Leningrad / Moscow training C65 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense 21. Panov vs Smyslov ½-½ 42 1939 Leningrad / Moscow training C77 Ruy Lopez 22. Smyslov vs V Goglidze 1-0 80 1939 Leningrad / Moscow training B83 Sicilian 23. Reshevsky vs Smyslov 1-0 70 1939 Leningrad / Moscow training D51 Queen's Gambit Declined 24. Smyslov vs Tolush 0-1 24 1939 Leningrad / Moscow training C16 French, Winawer 25. P Romanovsky vs Smyslov   ½-½ 43 1939 Leningrad / Moscow training D52 Queen's Gambit Declined  page 1 of 113; games 1-25 of 2,821

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 31 OF 54 ·  Later Kibitzing> Apr-03-07    JointheArmy: <Your answer was none too convincing, though. > Huh? First you say I didn't give you an answer, now my answer <was none too convincing, though.> <Let me remind you. When I pointed out that your "Plato lied about both" conclusion didn't follow from your premises, you pretended like you never drew the conclusion to begin with: <JTA: Actually I didn't>. This was a complete lie:> Umm, I thought it was pretty clear. You can't have a rating of 2200+ USCF and be a graduate student of Philosophy. I can't help if my original wording was too "awkward" for you to understand the meaning. Apr-03-07    Plato: <JTA> I'm going to do other more worthwhile things right now. You just go ahead and keep posting your nonsense and I'll decide later on whether or not to even bother responding. Have a good night. Apr-03-07    JointheArmy: <See the "just because"? I even emphasized it for you to help out. That's the "just because" comment.> No. You ignored the protocol part in my previous post. Apr-03-07    Plato: But one last thing before I go: <I can't help if my original wording was too "awkward" for you to understand the meaning.> On the contrary, there was nothing awkward about the wording and the meaning was quite clear: <JTA: the point is you lied about your chess rating and being a grad student and got caught> See the word "and"? See your claim that it is a fact that I lied about one thing AND the other? Nothing confusing about that. You can backpedal now and try to change the meaning of the words, but the sentence is not ambiguous at all and the only one twisting the meaning is you. Ok, now I'm off. I'll read anything else you have to say when I get back and then decide whether or not to even bother responding to your nonsense. Apr-03-07    JointheArmy: <On the contrary, there was nothing awkward about the wording and the meaning was quite clear:> Yes it was and you fail to realize it. In previous posts I've always stated you can't be 2200 USCF "and" a grad student of philosophy at Colombia. This is no different other than I say chess rating instead of 2200 USCF. Not only this for someone who claims WillC21 didn't refute you, it seems odd that you would try to prove a hopeless conjecture that he only proved you can't be both but only one. For example you can be 2200 USCF but you can't be a grad student of Philosophy at Colombia. Plus I believe we are in agreement that WillC21 proved you can be one, but you can't be both. Seems like a confession to me. So the only one backpedalling is you. Apr-03-07    JointheArmy: <Ok, now I'm off. I'll read anything else you have to say when I get back and then decide whether or not to even bother responding to your nonsense.> It had to happen eventually. At least I got my goal you confessing to WillC21's refutation. Hope to see you on your sock puppet accounts. User: Descartes User: Dave Hume User: Da Hume User: David Hume User: Dav Hume User: Immanuel Kant User: Hume User: D Hume Apr-03-07    chancho: <Plato> Perhaps you can send an e-mail with your credentials to a poster that you trust around here. With that person convinced that you are who you are, (and his saying so) then hopefully it'll put an end to all those who don't believe you. Apr-03-07    acirce: <JointheArmy> Stop the nonsense. <Plato> has many times stated that he wants to remain anonymous to everybody in here. Why is it so damn hard to respect that? These persistent public attempts to dig up his identity or force him to reveal it are creepy to say the least. Since you've brought me up several times now I want to clarify that I don't in any way sympathize with the current witchhunt against <Plato>, on the contrary. And I still don't get why all of you can't just exchange (anonymous) e-mail addresses and keep this mind-bogglingly silly "debate" going there instead of filling this chess forum with rubbish. Apr-03-07    Archives: <acirce> Finally something sane has been said on this page. Time for a Beer Apr-03-07    square dance: thanks, <jta>, but i will 'un-nominate' myself because i also choose to remain mostly anonymous here. of course everybody knows that <acirce> is ulf hammarstrom from sweden, so he would be a natural choice if he felt up to it. but keep in mind that not everybody will be anxious to get involved here. but thanks for nominating me on the basis of being honest! its nice to be recognized as such. Apr-03-07    square dance: ah, i see i was right. Apr-03-07    JointheArmy: <acirce> It's not that I'm wanting him to reveal his identity, its just that if he wants to pretend he's 2200 USCF and a grad student at Philosophy and making claims like "I'm Romanian so I know more about Nisipeanu then you at Sutovsky vs Z Andriasian, 2007 and acting like a jerk to 99% of the people here with his pseudo argument crap, then I see no reason why he could simple say "Colombia university left me out of the list he made a mistake" rather than claiming to be anonymous. You don't have to reveal your identity in order to prove Colombia University made a mistake, how else can they have no graduate students over 2200 USCF yet Plato insists he is. All I'm asking is him refuting WillC21's refutation. Sorry for bringing you into the mess <acirce> I hope you forgive me. The only reason was because of the whole Chomsky thing and the fact that I've rarely seen you lying anywhere you post (chessninja and chessgames). Apr-03-07    chancho: I respect <Plato>'s right to privacy, but these attacks on him seem to be going nonstop, and I feel bad that's he's being subjected to it. Hence my suggestion that he e-mail someone he can trust with his credentials. Apr-03-07    JointheArmy: <square dance> Damn I deleted the wrong post! Sorry to make you double post :-) Apr-03-07    acirce: <Archives> Alcohol-free for me, please. <JointheArmy> Whatever. Do you think you have behaved in any way better than him? Sorry, you're wrong. But who cares? If you have to keep this childish fight going then AT LEAST take it somewhere else. Please? That will be my last post on this subject. I'm not sure why the admins have allowed this crap to go on for so long but I sure hope they step in soon. Apr-03-07    babakova: I like the games of Smyslov, they have a very natural flow. Apr-03-07    JointheArmy: <acirce> No I don't really. Your right, I guess I really should let him be anonymous and I will. But if your going to make statements like <What is your chess rating? I have an idea of what it is> then WillC21 basically proves you can't be a grad student at Colombia and be 2200 USCF then I see there's some explaining to do. The only reason I got carried away is I wasn't going to have him have the last word like he always does. I hope you can understand that rather than dismissing what I've been trying to say as "whatever." In any case if Plato wants to end the debate on a good note I apologize for bringing him to reveal who he is in order to explain WillC's refutation. Jeez I feel like Plato and I are France and Germany. Fight, fight, fight truce. Fight, fight, fight, truce. Fight, fight, fight, treaty of versailles. Fight, fight, fight, truce and NATO. It's sad I always get caught up in trying to be some "vigilante" and I should have done what I said and not get in more debates with Plato. When I saw someone claim he lied and provided evidence it just dug up hard feelings. Anyways I'll let Plato have the last word as I should give him the benefit of the doubt who he is. Sorry Plato I tried to expose who you are. I just got so caught up into WillC's so called "proof" that I went back on my word not to start stuff with you. Anyways I'll prepare for the next war with you as I believe we'll be in WWI if we can be compared to Germany and France. :-)) /3rd truce offered. Apr-03-07    JointheArmy: <babakova> Then let me give you an annotated game from his to get this started on Smyslov. <Vassily Smyslov - Mikhail Tal Bled, 1959 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be2 e5 7. Nb3 Be7 8. O-O O-O 9. Be3 Qc7 10. a4 Be6 11. a5 Qc6 12. Bf3 Nbd7> click for larger view <13. Nd5> This is good time for Nd5, before Black puts his Rook on c8 pressing against c2 pawn. <13c Bxd5 14. exd5 Qb5> After the transformation of pawn structure (e4 goes to d5), plans have naturally changed. Instead of playing on d-file against d6 pawn, White wants to squeeze the opponent by advancing his queenside majority. At the same time, Black will go for kingside space gain with f5-e4. As we will see, Whitefs position proved to be more flexible. 14c Qc7 was also normal, but then White has immediate 15. Ra4 and c4, quickly forming the avalanche. 14c Qb5 with next Rc8 should prevent c4 for long enough so that Black can prepare his own advance on kingside. <15. Qd3!!> Paradoxical but logical solution as this is the only way to fight for c4. White is not worried about the doubled pawns because he can overtake the c-file thanks to the gdoubling outpost c3. Black has no possibility of doubling the Rooks and he will lose the c-file. At the same time, d3 pawn can be barrier for some later f5-e4 advance. Apr-03-07    JointheArmy: 15… Rfc8 Tal is trying to delay the exchange. The exchange on b5 is good for him because, even if his pawns are doubled, c4 is stopped and the Rooks and Bishop will have excellent counterplay against now weak a5 and c2. So many things to care about when conducting the exchange… 16. Rfc1 Qxd3 No more delay, Smyslov was ready to push c4. Interesting possibility for counterplay was suggested by Suetin 16…e4 17. Bxe4 Nxe4 18. Qxe4 Bf6 and even if pawn down, Black pieces will gain on activity. 17. cxd3 g6 18. Rc3 Rxc3 Black has to trade and close the c-file even if it connects White’s pawns again. Still, now b7 becomes significant weakness. 19. bxc3 Rc8 20. c4 click for larger view Smyslov has to allow another transformation because 20. Rc1 Bd8 21. c4 b6! helps Black to get rid of his worst weakness. 20… e4 21. dxe4 Rxc4 22. Nd2 Rc2 23. Bd1 Rc3 Nevertheless, White’s pair of Bishops will prove to be too strong. 24. Kf1 Nc5 24. Bd4 Rd3 26. Bxc5 dxc5 Tal goes for desperate exchange sacrifice trying to ruin White’s mobile center. 26… Rxd2 27. Be3 Rb2 28. f3 with pair of Bishops and weak b7 White is winning. 27. Ke2 Rxd2 28. Kxd2 Nxe4 29. Kc2 and White went on to win. Apr-03-07    JointheArmy: All from http://www.chesslodge.com/2007/03/s... Apr-03-07    babakova: <JointheArmy> That is indeed a nice game. Apr-03-07    Ron: Well, looks like my memory erred, the user <Plato> says he is at Columbia. Be that as it may, I'm going to be skipping these threads. Apr-03-07    s4life: <JTA> why don't you play a chess game with him? if he kicks your a$$ the way a 2200 player would, then you'll have no other choice but to believe him, right?. I am also a bit disgusted by the attempts of some of you to find out the identity of someone who wishes to remain anonymous. I wonder if it constitutes a misdemeanor, I would certainly condemn this behaviour in such a way. Apr-03-07    Goran: Jointhearmy, thanks for the link. I have few other games of Smyslov selected for analysing. Apr-03-07    JointheArmy: <Goran> Are you still admin at WCN? If so, how's it going there? Your blog is great by the way. <s4life> Well I offered my 3rd truce (somehow I'm ashamed to say I went back on the last one but they were accepted anyways) and apologized to Plato. I have to admit its fun debating on internet especially when it gets down and dirty. :-) Lesson learned from this is we chess players should not kill each other over trivial matters, but they should encourage each other since chess is what brings outcasts, nerds and normal people together. Chess should be used to unite us rather than tear us apart. Somehow I forgot about this and apologize. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 54) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 31 OF 54 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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