2003 interview with Vladimir Anzikeev.
2005 interview with Radio Liberty (Google Translate).
Hat tip to mishanp at The Daily Dirt.
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Sunday, March 28, 2010
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Vasily Smyslov, 1921-2010
Vasily Smyslov, World Chess Champion from 1957 to 1958, died in Moscow today. Smyslov was a genius, arguably the greatest player of the 1950s, and a decent human being.
Wikipedia.
ChessBase
Mig.
Smyslov was also a great composer of endgame studies: here's a page devoted to some of his most beautiful compositions.
Sergey Shipov interviewed Smyslov in 2006: here's the Google translation and the original Russian.
Vasily Smyslov: Endgame Virtuoso
is reasonably priced and still in print. For a more complete look at Smyslov's career, see the autobiographical Smyslov's 125 Selected Games
(unfortunately out of print). If you don't mind descriptive notation, a used copy of this Dover edition of Smyslov's best games through 1957 is reasonably priced.And Smyslov was much more than a quiet endgame grinder:
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