Clash of Champions: Smyslov vs. Botvinnik

After Alekhine's death and the subsequent 1948 world championship tournament (covered in my article last week), the chess world began the three-year world championship cycle, which would continue in relatively orderly fashion until Kasparov and Short broke away from FIDE in 1993 and the world of top-level

Botvinnik - Smyslov World Championship Match 1957

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