World Chess Championship 1958

World Chess Championship 1958
 
Defending champion

Challenger
 
  Vasily Smyslov Mikhail Botvinnik
 
10½Scores12½
Game 1062 moves →1
Game 2041 moves →1
Game 3066 moves →1
Game 4½82 move draw½
Game 51← 41 moves0
Game 6049 moves →1
Game 7½16 move draw½
Game 8½41 move draw½
Game 9½40 move draw½
Game 10½44 move draw½
Game 111← 24 moves0
Game 12041 moves →1
Game 13½41 move draw½
Game 14068 moves →1
Game 151← 55 moves0
Game 16½36 move draw½
Game 17½49 move draw½
Game 18074 moves →1
Game 191← 35 moves0
Game 20½48 move draw½
Game 21½23 move draw½
Game 221← 38 moves0
Game 23½41 move draw½
  Born 24 March 1921
36/37 years old		 Born 17 August 1911
46 years old
  Winner of the 1957 World Chess Championship Former world champion

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.

Botvinnik was eager to regain his title and spent the intervening year obsessively preparing. He surprised Smyslov with the Caro–Kann opening, which he was unprepared for. Botvinnik used the Caro-Kann in two of his opening three wins, and he adopted a more cautious style for the rest of the match after getting an early lead.

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