Clash of Champions: Smyslov vs. Botvinnik

After Alekhine's death and the subsequent 1948 world championship tournament (covered in my article last week), the chess world began the three-year world championship cycle, which would continue in relatively orderly fashion until Kasparov and Short broke away from FIDE in 1993 and the world of top-level

Vasily Smyslov obituary, Chess

Michail Botwinnik: Botwinnik versus Smyslov and Petrosian

Smyslov-Spassky (29th USSR-ch, Baku 1961), with annotations by

Botvinnik versus Smyslov and Petrosian

Alekhine - Bogoljubov World Championship Rematch (1934) chess event

Everspringpearlchess on Instagram: In this book, Botvinnik writes

Shah Mat

World Chess Championship 1960 - Wikipedia

Middlegame Archives - British Chess News

The World Chess Championship Updated to Include the 1972 Fischer