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Vlastimil Hort


Born
in Kladno, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
January 12, 1944

Died
May 12, 2025


Vlastimil Hort was a Czech-German chess Grandmaster. During the 1960s and 1970s he was one of the world's strongest players and reached the 1977–78 Candidates Tournament for the World Chess Championship, but never qualified for a competition for the actual title.
Hort was a citizen of Czechoslovakia for the first part of his chess career. He achieved the Grandmaster title in 1965. He won a number of major international tournaments (Hastings 1967–68, Skopje 1969, etc.) and national championships (1970, 1971, 1972, 1975, and 1977). He gained recognition as one of the strongest non-Soviet players in the world, which led to him representing the "World" team in the great "USSR vs. Rest of the World" match of 1970, where he occupied fourth board a
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How to Open a Chess Game

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The Best Move

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My Chess Stories

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Alekhine's Defence, With Ad...

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The Master Game Book Two

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The Modern Defence

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