![Vasily Smyslov | photo: Fred Grinburg RIA Novosti](https://chessintranslation.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Smyslov-cropped-Fred-Grinburg-RIA-Novosti-150x150.jpg)
Remembering Smyslov
The death of the 7th World Champion, Vasily Smyslov (1921-2010), was one of the greatest chess losses of the last year. He featured in two year-end interviews: one with FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, who claimed Smyslov also encountered aliens, and the other with GM Sergey Shipov, who recalled the Smyslov he knew.