at the Internet Archive record of Graeme Cree's Chess Pages
January 01, 1970
world, chess, championship, 1958, world, chess, championship, played, between, mikhail, botvinnik, vasily, smyslov, moscow, from, march, 1958, botvinnik, smyslov, unseated, botvinnik, 1957, match, entitled, this, rematch, year, later, defending, championchalle. A World Chess Championship was played between Mikhail Botvinnik and Vasily Smyslov in Moscow from March 4 to May 9 1958 Botvinnik won Smyslov had unseated Botvinnik in the 1957 match so he was entitled to this rematch a year later World Chess Championship 1958 Defending championChallenger Vassily SmyslovMikhail Botvinnik Vasily SmyslovMikhail Botvinnik 10 Scores12 Born 24 March 1921 36 37 years oldBorn 17 August 1911 46 years old Winner of the 1957 World Chess ChampionshipFormer world champion 19571960 Results editThe match was played as best of 24 games If it ended 12 12 Smyslov the holder would retain the Championship World Chess Championship Match 1958 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Points nbsp Mikhail Botvinnik Soviet Union 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 12 nbsp Vasily Smyslov Soviet Union 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 10 Botvinnik regained his title External links edit1958 World Chess Championship at the Internet Archive record of Graeme Cree s Chess Pages Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title World Chess Championship 1958 amp oldid 1194439270, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
