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#47 - Checkmate Mystery Cache

Hidden : 8/22/2025
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Смысло́в, romanized Vasíliy Vasíl'yevich Smyslóv; AB March CDEF – 27 March 2010) was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster who was the seventh World Chess Champion from 1957 to 1958. He was a Candidate for the World Chess Championship on eight occasions (1948, 1950, 1953, 1956, 1959, 1965, 1983, and 1985). Smyslov twice tied for first place at the USSR Chess Championships (1949, 1955), and his total of 17 Chess Olympiad medals won is an all-time record. In five European Team Championships, Smyslov won ten gold medals.

Smyslov remained active and successful in competitive chess well after the age of sixty. Despite his failing eyesight, he remained active in the occasional composition of chess problems and studies until shortly before his death in 2010. Besides chess, he was an accomplished baritone singer.

The cache can be found at:-

N55 (A-E)(B+C). (D-F)C(B+F)

W001 (B-C)(C-F). B(D-C)(B-A-A)

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Pnoyr gvrq ng urnq urvtug, YUF

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)