Vlastimil Hort: Facing the World Champions
05.11.2008 – During his career, Vlastimil Hort played against no less than eight world champions over the board: Mikhail Botvinnik, Mihail Tal, Tigran Petrosian, Vassily Smyslov, Boris Spassky, Bobby Fischer, Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov. Now the Czech-German GM has produced a remarkable DVD with a chapter devoted to each of them. Unique insights of a great player.
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 across the board from Garry Kasparov. Between these 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.
The opponent of eight World Champions: Gzech-German GM Vlastimil Hort
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System requirements: Pentium-Processor at 300 Mhz or
higher, 64 MB RAM,
Windows XP, Windows Vista, DVD drive, mouse, sound card.
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Running time: 4 hours.
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Price: 29.99 € incl. VAT
25.20 € without VAT (for Customers outside the European Union); 34.27 $
(without VAT)
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