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Morphy	Steinitz	Lasker	Capablanca	Alekhine	Euwe	Botvinnik	Smyslov
Tal	Petrosian	Spassky	Fischer	Karpov	Kasparov	Kramnik	Anand

Vasily Smyslov (Born 24 March 1921)

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DRAWN GAMES ARE EXCLUDED FROM "BLUNDERS" AND "AVG ERROR" DATA COLUMNS

YEAR	AGE	MOVES ANALYZED	WHITE PTS PERCENT	BLACK PTS PERCENT	TOTAL PTS PERCENT	BLUNDERS per 1000 MOVES	AVG ERROR per WHITE MOVE	AVG ERROR per BLACK MOVE	AVG ERROR per MOVE	COMPLEXITY – ALL GAMES	COMPLEXITY – WINNING GAMES
1941	20	1578	58.62	51.85	55.36	18.55	9.54	9.08	9.35	18.64	27.08
1942	21	1874	66.67	66.67	66.67	8.44	9.28	9.41	9.33	21.18	26.82
1943	22	1726	68.33	59.68	63.93	7.71	9.41	10.03	9.66	20.96	28.32
1944	23	1580	67.86	70.69	69.30	5.40	10.33	9.78	10.06	21.23	25.79
1945	24	1694	74.19	55.88	64.62	6.05	10.36	9.90	10.14	19.88	26.78
1946	25	2613	70.00	62.75	66.34	6.19	9.33	9.69	9.51	20.05	25.93
1947	26	3696	72.54	59.03	65.73	7.27	8.59	9.89	9.19	19.31	25.66
1948	27	3387	67.69	59.52	63.67	5.99	8.27	9.79	8.94	18.19	23.55
1949	28	3000	69.83	60.91	65.49	7.60	9.40	9.73	9.55	17.36	22.01
1950	29	2779	74.07	55.88	65.24	8.28	9.22	10.63	9.84	18.23	23.01
1951	30	3163	79.69	58.49	70.09	6.90	9.09	11.16	9.94	18.84	23.74
1952	31	3496	80.28	52.50	67.56	7.64	8.68	10.73	9.44	18.99	25.33
1953	32	3208	76.81	57.63	67.97	7.93	9.14	9.45	9.26	18.20	25.31
1954	33	3589	71.33	56.76	64.09	7.91	8.50	8.83	8.64	17.63	24.85
1955	34	3542	70.40	60.81	65.67	6.01	8.33	9.41	8.74	17.77	24.42
1956	35	3810	71.52	61.54	66.56	4.66	8.26	9.65	8.76	17.13	22.41
1957	36	3175	72.39	60.00	66.29	5.08	8.87	10.05	9.26	17.17	24.28
1958	37	2880	70.18	54.17	61.97	4.52	9.43	10.26	9.78	15.34	21.88
1959	38	3000	62.93	53.39	58.12	7.47	9.89	10.47	10.20	16.27	23.19
1960	39	3536	65.91	59.42	62.59	8.61	9.50	9.47	9.49	16.24	20.53
1961	40	4407	66.46	62.07	64.20	8.52	8.89	9.11	9.00	18.40	22.75
1962	41	4184	70.73	63.37	66.96	6.31	8.59	8.95	8.75	18.64	24.05
1963	42	3972	71.61	64.46	67.99	4.79	8.48	10.02	9.23	20.10	27.34
1964	43	3785	74.68	69.48	72.12	2.73	8.02	9.80	8.86	19.39	26.41
1965	44	3717	78.67	70.42	74.66	2.88	8.33	9.36	8.79	18.69	24.63
1966	45	4202	76.71	64.38	70.83	2.31	8.05	9.04	8.48	17.05	22.63
1967	46	4366	74.49	63.22	69.19	3.00	8.72	9.34	8.99	16.91	22.48
1968	47	4535	73.74	65.26	69.59	3.52	8.65	9.60	9.10	19.36	25.05
1969	48	4216	72.78	66.48	69.61	3.94	8.97	9.20	9.07	20.07	25.54
1970	49	4200	72.16	61.83	66.85	3.07	9.11	8.84	8.99	19.51	28.08
1971	50	4093	68.09	57.98	63.03	1.71	9.49	8.35	9.05	16.97	28.29
1972	51	4513	69.80	55.09	62.20	3.26	9.11	8.91	9.03	16.29	26.81
1973	52	4021	68.18	54.95	61.45	4.50	8.25	9.31	8.67	16.06	24.83
1974	53	3919	71.08	54.07	62.43	4.40	8.21	10.62	9.22	17.53	24.79
1975	54	3098	65.44	60.94	63.26	4.01	8.60	10.72	9.54	18.45	26.76
1976	55	3100	65.07	58.78	61.91	2.56	9.08	9.60	9.35	17.43	25.38
1977	56	3079	58.70	54.86	56.74	5.01	9.04	9.09	9.06	15.91	25.21
1978	57	3258	61.81	52.03	56.85	3.63	9.29	8.45	8.84	14.63	20.72
1979	58	2772	59.32	50.00	54.62	3.71	9.79	10.56	10.18	14.63	22.03
1980	59	2354	68.87	56.60	62.74	2.64	10.62	8.80	9.81	15.46	21.93
1981	60	2303	66.36	54.55	60.46	3.82	9.98	9.17	9.65	16.03	24.25
1982	61	2056	70.83	57.00	63.78	4.29	9.39	7.63	8.65	17.04	24.10
1983	62	2157	64.13	50.00	56.99	3.63	7.72	8.97	8.30	14.98	24.69
1984	63	2335	59.00	46.00	52.50	8.65	8.44	9.88	9.20	15.11	25.53
1985	64	2694	54.17	46.55	50.42	10.68	8.44	9.82	9.12	14.48	25.42
1986	65	2865	54.29	47.10	50.72	13.40	7.78	10.07	9.00	13.80	21.36
1987	66	2488	55.09	48.31	51.70	10.65	7.83	9.45	8.67	14.79	19.10
1988	67	2608	60.32	45.76	53.28	8.14	8.69	9.41	9.00	15.63	18.92
1989	68	2952	62.69	45.83	54.72	4.48	8.63	10.02	9.16	16.17	19.11
1990	69	3322	63.75	47.18	55.96	5.04	9.04	10.41	9.58	16.13	22.48
1991	70	2910	67.14	48.46	58.15	5.45	9.10	9.78	9.37	16.53	25.22