in Moscow on 90 th year of life, died, former chess world champion Vasily Smyslov.

Itar-Tass , died at the Botkin Hospital in Moscow, where he received several days ago in an ambulance with complaints of heart. The preliminary cause – cardio-vascular insufficiency. Three days ago, on March 24 V. Smyslov turned 89 years.

B. Smyslov was born March 24, 1921 in Moscow. 7-th World Chess Champion (1957-1958), champion of the USSR (1949), an international grandmaster (1950). Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1948), an international arbitrator for chess composition (1957), chess theoretician.

V. Smyslov – author of books and articles on various aspects of chess art. He has made a valuable contribution to the theory of the Spanish party, Slav defense, the queenside gambit, devised a system to protect Grünfeld, bears his name.