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Vlastimil Hort (2010)
Association	Czechoslovakia (until 1986) Germany (from 1986)
Born	January 12, 1944 Kladno
title	International Master (1962) Grand Master (1965)
Current  Elo rating	2387 (April 2020)
Best Elo rating	2620 (January 1978)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Vlastimil Hort (born January 12, 1944 in Kladno ) is a Czech - German chess player who first played for Czechoslovakia and since 1986 for Germany .

Life

Hort completed a degree with a focus on foreign trade. In 1960 in Leipzig he took part in a chess Olympiad for the first time . He played at the European team championship in chess in 1961 in Oberhausen for Czechoslovakia. In 1962 he became International Master , in 1965 he achieved the title of Grand Master . At the interzonal tournament in Sousse in 1967 Hort came in 6th. In 1970 he was used for the match between the USSR and the rest of the world on board 4, he defeated Lev Polugajewski with 2.5: 1.5. He won the national championship of Czechoslovakia in 1970, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1977 and 1984. In the quarterfinals of the qualifying competition for the 1978 World Chess Championship, Hort was defeated by Boris Spasski in Reykjavík in 1977 with 7.5: 8.5. In the 15th game he lost in a clear winning position by exceeding the time and could not make up for this unfortunate defeat in the last game. At that time, Hort was among the best in the world, his best placement was sixth place, which he took in 1977, level with Lev Polugajewski and Michail Tal .

Vlastimil Hort, winner of the Dortmund Chess Days 1982

Hort moved to (West) Germany in 1979 and joined the SG Porz chess league club, where he played until 2001. With Porz he was German team champion in 1979 , 1982 , 1984 , 1994 , 1996 , 1998 , 1999 and 2000 . In the Swiss National League A he played for the Reichenstein chess friends from 2004 to 2012 , with whom he became champion in 2006 , from 2013 to 2015 the Lucerne chess club was his club, and since 2016 he has played for the SK Réti Zurich . He retained the Czechoslovak citizenship . In 1981 he finished second behind Lubomir Kavalek at the International German Championship in Bochum . In 1982 he won the grandmaster tournament of the Dortmund Chess Days and in 1983 the Berlin Summer Open .

With Czechoslovakia he won the silver medal at the 1982 Chess Olympiad in Lucerne . Hort took part in a total of 14 Chess Olympiads, eleven times for Czechoslovakia (1960 in Leipzig to the Chess Olympiad 1984 in Thessaloniki ) and three times for Germany ( 1988 in Thessaloniki , 1990 in Novi Sad and 1992 in Manila ). In the individual ranking he received silver on the first board in 1972 and bronze on board 3 in 1962. Hort also took part in five European team championships between 1961 and 1992 (three with Czechoslovakia, two with Germany), his greatest success being third place with the German team Was in Haifa in 1989 .

Siegfried Zill and Vlastimil Hort at the Dortmund Chess Days 2008

After taking on German citizenship at the end of 1986, Hort won the German championship in Bad Neuenahr in 1987 , and in 1989 and 1991 . In 2006 he became senior world champion in Chess960 in Mainz . Hort plays at the Oberhausen Chess Club in 1887 . He is third married and has a son Daniel (* 1967). He stayed in Czechoslovakia. Hort set a world record in blind chess in Reykjavík in 1977 . He is also a very good simultaneous player ; In 1985 he set a record for the Guinness Book at a simultaneous performance against 636 opponents . Hort also became known as a very good, sometimes humorous commentator on the chess programs “ Schach der Großmeister ” on the WDR television program alongside Helmut Pfleger . In the last event in 2005, the two commentators Pfleger and Hort met themselves and played an exciting draw . At the end of the program, the two protagonists were given the portraits that Gautam modeled of them as a gift from WDR. As a little anecdote: Lothar Schmid quipped, "It's just a question of who gets which." A system for distributing prize money in tournaments, the Hort system, is named after Hort .

Publications

• Vlastimil Hort, Vlastimil Jansa : The best move (1982, ISBN 3-7919-0214-8 ), a collection of test positions for chess training.
• Vlastimil Hort: Encounters on the chessboard . Rau-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1984, ISBN 3-7919-0218-0 .
• Vlastimil Hort: Black and White Stories (fiction work). Bärenhort Verlag, Cologne 1989.
• My games against the world champions (DVD), Chessbase, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-86681-103-4 .
• Vlastimil Hort: My chess stories . NAVA Verlag, Plzeň 2019. ISBN 978-80-7211-564-8 .

literature

• Tibor Károlyi: Legendary Chess Careers: Vlastimil Hort . Chess Evolution, Niepolomice 2016. ISBN 978-83-944290-5-8 .

Web links

Commons : Vlastimil Hort  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Vlastimil Hort in the catalog of the German National Library
• Replayable chess games by Vlastimil Hort on chessgames.com (English)
• Interview with Vlastimil Hort in the chess whisper podcast from July 23, 2020 on YouTube

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dagobert Kohlmeyer : Vlastimil Hort on the 70th In: de.chessbase.com. January 12, 2014, accessed October 23, 2019.
2. ^ André Schulz : Vlastimil On the 75th birthday of Vlastimil Hort: An interview In: de.chessbase.com. January 12, 2019, accessed October 23, 2019.
3. ↑ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 75.
4. ↑ Dortmund Chess Days 1982 on TeleSchach
5. ↑ German individual chess championship 1981 in Bochum on TeleSchach (photos, cross table and games)
6. ↑ Vlastimil Horts results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
7. ↑ Vlastimil Horts results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
8. ↑ German individual chess championship 1987 in Bad Neuenahr on TeleSchach (cross table and games)
9. ↑ German individual chess championship 1989 in Bad Neuenahr on TeleSchach (cross table and games)
10. ↑ Report on tec-darmstadt.net ( memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.