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Vasily Smyslov
Soviet chess grandmaster.
Born March 24th, 1921 in Moscow.
Died March 27th, 2010 at 89 years old in Moscow (heart failure). [ref]
Occupations
chess composer, chess player, non-fiction writer, singer
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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid. Langston Hughes