GMVlastimil Hort

GER Born 1944 Male
FIDE ID
4600029

About Vlastimil Hort

Vlastimil Hort (1944-2025) was born in Kladno and became a grandmaster in 1965. He won five Czechoslovak championships and international tournaments including Hastings in 1967-68 and Skopje in 1969. Show more

Vlastimil Hort (1944-2025) was born in Kladno and became a grandmaster in 1965. He won five Czechoslovak championships and international tournaments including Hastings in 1967-68 and Skopje in 1969. In the 1970 USSR-Rest of the World match, he scored an unbeaten victory over Lev Polugaevsky on fourth board. Hort reached the 1977 Candidates matches and narrowly lost to Boris Spassky. During that match, he gave Spassky additional recovery time when illness had exhausted the latter's permitted postponements. Hort moved to West Germany in 1985 and won the national championship there in 1987, 1989 and 1991. Across his career he played in fourteen Olympiads for Czechoslovakia and Germany. He also became a familiar German television commentator alongside Helmut Pfleger and continued competing in senior events. He died in Eitorf in 2025.

FIDE ratings

2315

Classical

Published FIDE

2457

Rapid

Published FIDE

2364

Blitz

Published FIDE

Official classical ranks

No current active classical rank available

FIDE rating history

Highest recorded rating
2546 Jan 2003
Recorded years
2001–2025
Archived games
281

Based on available monthly lists and saved games.

FIDE rating history

Published rating lists through May 2025.

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Available Games

Published games available in our archive; coverage varies by tournament. Archive last checked: 2026-11-09 (UTC).

Online games are identified from known tournament names, playing sites and PGN mode. Other games are listed as OTB (over-the-board).

# Date Event Site Round White Black Result Moves View
151 1975 Tallinn Tallinn 2 Spassky, Boris V. Hort, Vlastimil 1-0 41 Open
152 1980 Buenos Aires Buenos Aires - Hort, Vlastimil Karpov, Anatoly 1/2-1/2 23 Open
153 1986 Bundesliga 8586 Germany - Spassky, Boris V. Hort, Vlastimil 0-1 52 Open
154 1988 Cologne m Cologne 3 Hort, Vlastimil Kasparov, Garry 0-1 50 Open
155 1977 Candidats qf4 Reykjavik 11 Spassky, Boris V. Hort, Vlastimil 1/2-1/2 13 Open
156 1990 Bundesliga 8990 Germany - Spassky, Boris V. Hort, Vlastimil 1/2-1/2 25 Open
157 1972 Sarajevo Sarajevo 7 Petrosian, Tigran V Hort, Vlastimil 1-0 26 Open
158 1980 EU-chT Skara 5 Hort, Vlastimil Tal, Mikhail 1/2-1/2 13 Open
159 1977 Candidats qf4 Reykjavik 15 Spassky, Boris V. Hort, Vlastimil 1-0 35 Open
160 1982 Hoogovens Wijk aan Zee - Tal, Mikhail Hort, Vlastimil 1/2-1/2 17 Open
161 1970 Vinkovci Vinkovci 15 Bronstein, David I Hort, Vlastimil 1/2-1/2 18 Open
162 1970 IBM Amsterdam 13 Hort, Vlastimil Spassky, Boris V. 1/2-1/2 18 Open
163 1971 Moscow Moscow - Hort, Vlastimil Smyslov, Vasily 1/2-1/2 14 Open
164 1972 Skopje ol (Men) fin-A Skopje 9 Hort, Vlastimil Petrosian, Tigran V 1/2-1/2 9 Open
165 1979 Tilburg Tilburg 9 Karpov, Anatoly Hort, Vlastimil 1-0 73 Open
166 1979 Waddinxveen Waddinxveen 6 Karpov, Anatoly Hort, Vlastimil 1-0 57 Open
167 1979 Montreal Montreal 11 Tal, Mikhail Hort, Vlastimil 1/2-1/2 58 Open
168 1994 Bundesliga 9394 Germany - Hort, Vlastimil Khalifman, Alexander 1/2-1/2 42 Open
169 1990 Biel Biel 2 Hort, Vlastimil Karpov, Anatoly 1/2-1/2 17 Open
170 1970 Palma de Mallorca Interzonal Palma de Mallorca 5 Hort, Vlastimil Fischer, Robert James 0-1 73 Open
171 1975 Las Palmas Las Palmas 3 Tal, Mikhail Hort, Vlastimil 1/2-1/2 16 Open
172 1988 Cologne m Cologne 1 Hort, Vlastimil Kasparov, Garry 0-1 35 Open
173 1969 Palma de Mallorca Palma de Mallorca 9 Petrosian, Tigran V Hort, Vlastimil 1-0 60 Open
174 1975 Moscow Moscow - Hort, Vlastimil Spassky, Boris V. 1/2-1/2 19 Open
175 1985 Reykjavik Reykjavik 5 Hort, Vlastimil Spassky, Boris V. 1/2-1/2 14 Open
176 1986 Reggio Emilia8687 Reggio Emilia - Hort, Vlastimil Smyslov, Vasily 1/2-1/2 52 Open
177 1977 Candidats qf4 Reykjavik 4 Hort, Vlastimil Spassky, Boris V. 1/2-1/2 25 Open
178 1980 Tilburg Tilburg - Spassky, Boris V. Hort, Vlastimil 1/2-1/2 14 Open
179 1979 Montreal Montreal 5 Spassky, Boris V. Hort, Vlastimil 1/2-1/2 12 Open
180 1981 Porz Porz - Tal, Mikhail Hort, Vlastimil 1/2-1/2 19 Open
181 1979 Montreal Montreal 2 Hort, Vlastimil Tal, Mikhail 1/2-1/2 20 Open
182 1969 Tbilisi Tbilisi - Hort, Vlastimil Tal, Mikhail 1/2-1/2 12 Open
183 1986 Dortmund Dortmund - Smyslov, Vasily Hort, Vlastimil 1/2-1/2 13 Open
184 1983 Linares Linares - Spassky, Boris V. Hort, Vlastimil 1/2-1/2 25 Open
185 1983 Bundesliga 8283 Germany - Hort, Vlastimil Spassky, Boris V. 1/2-1/2 19 Open
186 1973 Las Palmas Las Palmas 1 Hort, Vlastimil Petrosian, Tigran V 1/2-1/2 13 Open
187 1973 Hoogovens Wijk aan Zee 12 Hort, Vlastimil Tal, Mikhail 1/2-1/2 12 Open
188 1971 Gothenburg Gothenburg 7 Hort, Vlastimil Spassky, Boris V. 1/2-1/2 19 Open
189 1989 FRG-CupT Germany - Spassky, Boris V. Hort, Vlastimil 1/2-1/2 25 Open
190 1977 Tilburg Tilburg 3 Smyslov, Vasily Hort, Vlastimil 1/2-1/2 47 Open
191 1977 Candidats qf4 Reykjavik 5 Spassky, Boris V. Hort, Vlastimil 1/2-1/2 24 Open
192 1986 Reggio Emilia8687 Reggio Emilia - Spassky, Boris V. Hort, Vlastimil 1/2-1/2 15 Open
193 1994 Donner mem-B Amsterdam 1 Hort, Vlastimil Bronstein, David I 1/2-1/2 19 Open
194 1968 Lugano ol (Men) Lugano - Petrosian, Tigran V Hort, Vlastimil 1/2-1/2 18 Open
195 1976 Manila Interzonal Manila 18 Spassky, Boris V. Hort, Vlastimil 1/2-1/2 19 Open
196 1975 Teeside Teeside 15 Hort, Vlastimil Bronstein, David I 1/2-1/2 14 Open
197 1963 Alekhine mem Moscow 9 Hort, Vlastimil Tal, Mikhail 1/2-1/2 47 Open
198 1960 Moscow CCCT Moscow 1 Hort, Vlastimil Smyslov, Vasily 1/2-1/2 41 Open
199 1971 Moscow Moscow - Karpov, Anatoly Hort, Vlastimil 1-0 33 Open
200 1962 Moscow Moscow - Hort, Vlastimil Bronstein, David I 1/2-1/2 21 Open