Final Years
In 1991 Smyslov won the inaugural World Senior Chess Championship. He played no competitive games after the 2001 Klompendans Veterans versus Ladies tournament in Amsterdam. His Elo rating after this event was 2494.
Smyslov died of heart failure in hospital in Moscow on the morning of 27 March 2010, three days after his 89th birthday.
Read more about this topic: Vasily Smyslov
Famous quotes containing the words final and/or years:
“[Man’s] life consists in a relation with all things: stone, earth, trees, flowers, water, insects, fishes, birds, creatures, sun, rainbow, children, women, other men. But his greatest and final relation is with the sun.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognised as love at all.”
—Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)