Original photo of Vlastimil Hort and Jan Smejkal during the World Student Championship in Sinaia, Romania, 1965. Size 14,3 x 10,4 cm.

They are probably drinking beer in the photo.

Vlastimil Hort (born 1944) is a Czech-German grandmaster, one of the world's strongest players in the 1960s and 1970s. He was national champion of Czechoslovakia six times (1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1977) and national champion of Germany three times (1987, 1989, 1991). Hort won many international tournaments, in 1970 he represented the world team in a match against the USSR and defeated Polugaevsky. In 1976 he advanced from the Interzonal tournament to the Candidates tournament, where he unluckily lost to Boris Spassky, losing the deciding game on time in a completely won position. Hort is also a respected commentator and author of numerous articles and books.

Jan Smejkal (born 1946) is a Czech chess player and International Grandmaster. One of the world's best players in the 1970s. He was champion of Czechoslovakia in 1973, 1979 and 1986, and won many international tournaments. Between 1968 and 1994 he represented the national team at ten Chess Olympiads and achieved his greatest success at the 1982 Lucerne Olympiad, where Czechoslovakia finished second behind the Soviet Union.

Condition - Very Good.