CHESS PLAYER

Vasily Smyslov

1921 - 2010

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Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Смысло́в, romanized: Vasíliy Vasíl'yevich Smyslóv; 24 March 1921 – 27 March 2010) was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster who was the seventh World Chess Champion from 1957 to 1958. He was a Candidate for the World Chess Championship on eight occasions (1948, 1950, 1953, 1956, 1959, 1965, 1983, and 1985). Smyslov twice tied for first place at the USSR Chess Championships (1949, 1955), and his total of 17 Chess Olympiad medals won is an all-time record. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vasily Smyslov has received more than 474,322 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Vasily Smyslov is the 13th most popular chess player (up from 17th in 2019), the 198th most popular biography from Russia (up from 245th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Russian Chess Player.

Vasily Smyslov is most famous for being a Russian chess grandmaster. He was born in Moscow, Russia in 1927. He became a grandmaster in 1952 and was the World Chess Champion from 1957 to 1958.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Vasily Smyslov ranks 13 out of 461. Before him are Emanuel Lasker, Mikhail Botvinnik, Anatoly Karpov, Tigran Petrosian, Max Euwe, and Garry Kasparov. After him are François-André Danican Philidor, Adolf Anderssen, Nona Gaprindashvili, Paul Morphy, Paul Keres, and Ruy López de Segura.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Vasily Smyslov ranks 28. Before him are Paulo Freire, Patricia Highsmith, Nancy Reagan, Yitzhak Navon, Satyajit Ray, and Sugar Ray Robinson. After him are Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Vasily Stalin, Gianni Agnelli, John Glenn, Jane Russell, and Lana Turner. Among people deceased in 2010, Vasily Smyslov ranks 18. Before him are Éric Rohmer, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Juan Antonio Samaranch, Georges Charpak, Ali Hassan al-Majid, and Maurice Allais. After him are Marshall Warren Nirenberg, Zecharia Sitchin, Néstor Kirchner, Gennady Yanayev, Francesco Cossiga, and Bruno Cremer.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vasily Smyslov ranks 198 out of 3,761. Before him are Grigori Perelman (1966), Alexander Herzen (1812), Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg (1599), Aleksandr Ulyanov (1866), Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (1882), and Valery Gerasimov (1955). After him are Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia (1690), Christian Goldbach (1690), Anna Netrebko (1971), Vasily II of Moscow (1415), Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828), and Vasily Stalin (1921).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Russia

Among chess players born in Russia, Vasily Smyslov ranks 5. Before him are Alexander Alekhine (1892), Boris Spassky (1937), Mikhail Botvinnik (1911), and Anatoly Karpov (1951). After him are Viktor Korchnoi (1931), Mikhail Chigorin (1850), Savielly Tartakower (1887), Vera Menchik (1906), Yuri Averbakh (1922), Andor Lilienthal (1911), and Alexander Kotov (1913).

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