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Vasily Smyslov

1921 - 2010

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Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Смысло́в, tr. 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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vasily Smyslov has received more than 436,308 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Vasily Smyslov is the 17th most popular chess player (down from 15th in 2019), the 246th most popular biography from Russia (down from 214th 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 17 out of 374. Before him are Tigran Petrosian, Garry Kasparov, Anatoly Karpov, François-André Danican Philidor, Paul Morphy, and Samuel Reshevsky. After him are Adolf Anderssen, Paul Keres, Viktor Korchnoi, Vera Menchik, Ruy López de Segura, and Siegbert Tarrasch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Vasily Smyslov ranks 37. Before him are Nancy Reagan, Kenneth Arrow, Patricia Highsmith, Kurt Knispel, Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, and Lana Turner. After him are Marija Gimbutas, Georges Brassens, Dirk Bogarde, Akio Morita, Edgar Morin, and Herschel Grynszpan. Among people deceased in 2010, Vasily Smyslov ranks 23. Before him are Ali Hassan al-Majid, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Maurice Allais, Georges Charpak, Alois Brunner, and Jean Simmons. After him are Viktor Chernomyrdin, Dino De Laurentiis, Miep Gies, Francesco Cossiga, Blake Edwards, and Néstor Kirchner.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vasily Smyslov ranks 246 out of 3,262. Before him are Gustav Bauer (1870), Boris Berezovsky (1946), Lyudmila Putina (1958), Pyotr Kapitsa (1894), Vasily I of Moscow (1371), and Grigori Perelman (1966). After him are Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856), Ivan Kramskoi (1837), Alexander Blok (1880), Pitirim Sorokin (1889), Viktor Chernomyrdin (1938), and Alexander Oparin (1894).

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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), Vera Menchik (1906), Savielly Tartakower (1887), Mikhail Chigorin (1850), Yuri Averbakh (1922), Andor Lilienthal (1911), and Elisaveta Bykova (1913).

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