The 1958
World Chess Championship
The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess. The current world champion is Magnus Carlsen of Norway, who has held the title since 2013.
The first event recognized as a world championship was the World Chess ...
was played between
Mikhail Botvinnik and
Vasily Smyslov
Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov ( rus, Васи́лий Васи́льевич Смысло́в, Vasíliy Vasíl'yevich Smyslóv; 24 March 1921 – 27 March 2010) was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster, who was World Chess Champion from 1957 t ...
in
Moscow
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from March 4 to May 9, 1958. Botvinnik won. Smyslov had unseated Botvinnik in the
1957 match, so he was entitled to this rematch a year later.
Results
The match was played as best of 24 games. If it ended 12-12, Smyslov, the holder, would retain the Championship.
Botvinnik regained his title.
External links
1958 World Chess Championshipat the Internet Archive record of Graeme Cree's Chess Pages
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