Vlastimil Hort is a Czechoslovak and later 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 at the Thessaloniki Olympiad in 1988
Grandmaster Vlastimil Hort giving a simultaneous exhibition, 1997
Hort in 2005
World Chess Championship 1978
The 1978 World Chess Championship was played between Anatoly Karpov and Viktor Korchnoi in Baguio, Philippines, from July 18 to October 18, 1978. Karpov won, thereby retaining the title.
Anatoly Karpov
Viktor Korchnoi
World Chess Championship 1978 on a stamp of the Philippines