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Vlastimil Hort
Czech-German chess player
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dead
- born
- 1944
- died
- 2025
- age at death
- 81
- known for
- chess player
1944 – 2025

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who vlastimil hort is
Vlastimil Hort was a Czechoslovak and 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.
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