Word: smyslov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...during which both contestants begged off for occasional bed rest, Challenger Mikhail Botvinnik demonstrated the intellectual stamina of a champion. Sticking stubbornly to the defensive strategy that experts insisted he was constitutionally incapable of using, Botvinnik, 46, strung out the 23rd game of the tournament until World Champion Vasily Smyslov, 37, broke under the strain. Rather than resume the adjourned game, Smyslov offered a draw by telephone. This gave Botvinnik half a point and the match, 12½-10½. Thus, without even the satisfaction of a handshake, Botvinnik regained the title that he lost to Smyslov last year...
...Smyslov, and his countryman, Mikhail Botvinnik...
...year-old world outdoor record. Warmer-dam, for one, had seen the new heights coming. Just the week before, at 40, he had cleared 13 ft. with a Fiberglas pole, said that at 25 the new pole would have pushed him to 16 ft. ¶ Russia's Vassily Smyslov, an aspiring concert baritone, needed only 22 games to depose nine-year World Chess Champion Mikhail Botvinnik, 12½-9½. Anxious to meet all challengers, Smyslov expects to face no females. Says he: "They could not stay silent for five hours straight...
...Amsterdam, Russia's champion chess team, playing without Grand Masters Mikhail Botvinnik and Vassily Smyslov, swept through the final round of an international tournament (which the U.S. did not enter because it "could not afford to send a team"), won nine of their other matches and drew one (with Israel), also took the Hamilton-Russell trophy for the second year...
Grand Master Samuel Reshevsky topped the Americans by holding Russia's Vassily Smyslov to four draws...