World Chess Championship 1958

World Chess Championship 1958
 
Defending champion

Challenger
 
  Vasily Smyslov Mikhail Botvinnik
 
10½Scores12½
  Born 24 March 1921
36/37 years old		 Born 17 August 1911
46 years old
  Winner of the 1957 World Chess Championship Former world champion

A World Chess Championship was played between Mikhail Botvinnik and Vasily Smyslov in Moscow from March 4 to May 9, 1958. Botvinnik won. Smyslov had unseated Botvinnik in the 1957 match, so he was entitled to this rematch a year later.

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