World Chess Championship 1958
 
Defending champion
Challenger
 
Vassily Smyslov
Vassily Smyslov
Mikhail Botvinnik
Mikhail Botvinnik
  Soviet Union Vasily Smyslov Soviet Union 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.

Results

The match was played as best of 24 games. If it ended 12-12, Smyslov, the holder, would retain the Championship.

World Chess Championship Match 1958
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 Mikhail Botvinnik (Soviet Union) 111½01½½½½01½10½½10½½0½12½
 Vasily Smyslov (Soviet Union) 000½10½½½½10½01½½01½½1½10½

Botvinnik regained his title.

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