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Vlastimil Hort

1944 - 2025

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Vlastimil Hort (12 January 1944 – 12 May 2025) was a Czech and German chess grandmaster. During the 1960s and 1970s he was one of the world's strongest players and reached the 1977–78 Candidates Tournament for the World Chess Championship, but never qualified for a competition for the actual title. Hort was a citizen of Czechoslovakia for the first part of his chess career. He achieved the Grandmaster title in 1965. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vlastimil Hort is the 40th most popular chess player (up from 70th in 2019), the 187th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 377th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Czech Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Vlastimil Hort ranks 40 out of 461. Before him are Efim Bogoljubov, Susan Polgár, Vassily Ivanchuk, Savielly Tartakower, Friðrik Ólafsson, and Bent Larsen. After him are Borislav Ivkov, Robert Hübner, Lyudmila Rudenko, Giovanni Leonardo Di Bona, Alexander McDonnell, and Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Vlastimil Hort ranks 147. Before him are Lucía Topolansky, Agnes Baltsa, Gary Busey, Tsuyoshi Kunieda, Alice Walker, and Ranulph Fiennes. After him are Frank Oz, Bernard Cornwell, Oqil Oqilov, Tony Atkinson, Mary Robinson, and John Densmore. Among people deceased in 2025, Vlastimil Hort ranks 69. Before him are Friðrik Ólafsson, Hossein Salami, Zurab Tsereteli, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Nino Benvenuti, and Souleymane Cissé. After him are Greg Bell, Eugen Doga, Lea Massari, Kit Bond, Mauricio Funes, and James Harrison.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Vlastimil Hort ranks 187 out of 1,200. Before him are Archduke Eugen of Austria (1863), Herbert Lom (1917), Ottokar Czernin (1872), Eduard Bloch (1872), Jan Patočka (1907), and Oldřich, Duke of Bohemia (970). After him are Petr Fiala (1964), Margaret of Bohemia, Queen of Hungary (1335), Karel Zeman (1910), Tomáš Rosický (1980), Boleslaus III, Duke of Bohemia (950), and Catherine of Bohemia (1342).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Czechia

Among chess players born in Czechia, Vlastimil Hort ranks 2. Before him are Wilhelm Steinitz (1836). After him are Luděk Pachman (1924), Rudolf Charousek (1873), Ernst Falkbeer (1819), Miroslav Filip (1928), Lubomir Kavalek (1943), Jana Bellin (1947), and David Navara (1985).

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