![]() In the Moscow Championship of 1939–40 Smyslov placed 2nd–3rd with 9/13. ![]() However, Smyslov's first attempt at adult competition outside his own city fell short he placed 12th–13th in the Leningrad–Moscow International tournament of 1939 with 8/17 in an exceptionally strong field. That same year, he tied for 1st–2nd places in the Moscow City Championship, with 12½/17. In 1938, at age 17, Smyslov won the USSR Junior Championship. Smyslov's competitive chess experiences began at the age of 14, when he started taking part in classification tournaments. Nimzovitch I studied attentively the genius of prominent Soviet masters." Chigorin made an indelible impression on me it was with interest that I read the various declarations on questions of strategy by A. The games of the great Russian chess master M. He would also write that ".I was later to read everything that my father had in his library: Dufresne's handbook, separate numbers of the Soviet chess magazines Chess and Chess Sheet, the text-books of Lasker and Capablanca, and the collections of games of Soviet and international tournaments. The elder Smyslov gave his son a copy of Alexander Alekhine's book My Best Games of Chess 1908–1923 and the future world champion would later write that this book became his constant reference. Smyslov's father had also studied chess for a time under the tutelage of Mikhail Chigorin and the senior Smyslov became the boy's first teacher. Petersburg Technical Institute in intercollegiate chess competitions. His father, Vasily Osipovich Smyslov, worked as an engineering technician and had represented the St. Smyslov born in Russian family, first became interested in chess at the age of six. Besides chess, he was an accomplished baritone singer. Despite failing eyesight, he remained active in the occasional composition of chess problems and studies until shortly before his death in 2010. ![]() Smyslov remained active and successful in competitive chess well after the age of sixty. In five European Team Championships, Smyslov won ten gold medals. 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. ![]() Vasíliy Vasíl'yevich Smyslóv 24 March 1921 – 27 March 2010) was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster, who was World Chess Champion from 1957 to 1958. ![]()
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