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Facing the World Champions
During his career, Vlastimil Hort,
who himself belongs to the same generation as Bobby Fischer, met no
less than eight world champions over the board. In the early 60s he
crossed swords with Mihail Tal, and at the end of the eighties he
was sitting over the board from Garry Kasparov. Between the two
there were meetings with chess legends Botvinnik, Petrosian,
Smyslov, Spassky, Fischer and Karpov.
On this DVD the Czech-German grandmaster looks back to these
encounters and devotes a chapter to each of the world champions,
Thus we have eye-witness accounts which form a personal gallery of
chess world champions, during which we get not only a presentation
of the games but also details and stories of things which happened
off the board and in the wings, as it were. So, for example, Hort
tells us about his phone call from Botvinnik, about Bobby Fischer‘s
„frenemy“ and describes the shadowy figure of the political
minder...
Vlastimil Hort was born in Prague in
1944 and won the grandmaster title in 1965. Among his great
successes are the qualification for the WCh Candidates’ tournament
of 1977 in which he reached the quarter finals in Reykjavik, only
just going down to ex world champion Boris Spassky. Hort won the
Czech championships on several occasions, and after taking German
nationality in 1986 he was also German champion on several
occasions. For over 30 years he took part in many chess Olympiads
for both of these countries, starting with 1960 in Leipzig, and
finishing in 1992 in Manila. Vlastimil Hort is best known to the
German public for his appearances with Helmut Pfleger as a team of
commentators in TV programs.
Running time: 4 hours
Chess First! recommended for those
who like chess stories and good games!
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| GM Hort monograph |
monograph |
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$34.00
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