Vlastimil Hort
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Vlastimil Hort was a Czechoslovak 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
Hort in 1979
Grandmaster Hort giving a simultaneous exhibition, 1997
Hort in 2005
Leonid Stein
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Leonid Zakharovych Stein was a Soviet chess Grandmaster. He won three USSR Chess Championships in the 1960s, and was among the world's top ten players during that era.
Vlastimil Hort
…to begin his penultimate estrangement from grandmaster chess. Hort went on to finish the Interzonal in a tie for sixth place with Samuel Reshevsky and Leonid Stein, but did not advance to the Candidates matches, Reshevsky becoming the successful Candidate following a three-way tie-breaking match. He reached the…
Leonid Stein in 1969
Amsterdam Interzonal 1964. From left to right: Leonid Stein, Mark Taimanov, Borislav Ivkov, Andor Lilienthal and Vasili Smyslov.