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    Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi (Russian: Виктор Львович Корчной, IPA: [vʲiktər ˈlʲvovʲɪtɕ kɐrtɕˈnoj]; 23 March 1931 – 6 June 2016) was a Soviet (before 1976)...
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    1978 World Chess Championship was played between Anatoly Karpov and Viktor Korchnoi in Baguio, Philippines, from July 18 to October 18, 1978. Karpov won...
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    Chess Championship, Robert Byrne, Bantam Books, 1976 Viktor Korchnoi: Chess is My Life, Viktor Korchnoi, Edition Olms, 2004 1973–75 Candidates Matches, Mark...
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  • even occasionally among high-level players. Alexander Beliavsky and Viktor Korchnoi both had to consult the arbiter during tournaments on whether castling...
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    1981 World Chess Championship was played between Anatoly Karpov and Viktor Korchnoi in Merano, Italy from October 1 to November 19, 1981. Karpov won with...
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    Keres, Lajos Portisch, Boris Spassky, Mikhail Botvinnik, Mikhail Tal, Viktor Korchnoi, Jan Timman, Anatoly Karpov, Vasyl Ivanchuk, Vladimir Kramnik, Garry...
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  • This position is from Game 17 of the 1978 World Championship between Viktor Korchnoi, the challenger, and the World Champion, Anatoly Karpov. Karpov, playing...
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    Michael Stean and Jacob Murey, Keene helped Viktor Korchnoi during the 1978 World Chess Championship Karpov–Korchnoi match. In 1981, Keene came to the USSR...
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    Pal Benko, Miroslav Filip, Bobby Fischer, Efim Geller, Paul Keres, Viktor Korchnoi, and Mikhail Tal. Petrosian, representing the Soviet Union, won the...
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  • Mikhail Botvinnik, 2616 José Raúl Capablanca, 2552 Emanuel Lasker, 2550 Viktor Korchnoi, 2535 Boris Spassky, 2480 Vasily Smyslov, 2413 Tigran Petrosian, 2363...
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  • sports artist, chess player Anatoly Karpov, who is competing against Viktor Korchnoi for the title of World Chess Championship. It was theatrically released...
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    titles: Mikhail Botvinnik, Mikhail Tal Four titles: Tigran Petrosian, Viktor Korchnoi, Alexander Beliavsky Three titles: Paul Keres, Leonid Stein, Anatoly...
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    Teesside 1975, clear first at Moscow 1975 (ahead of Boris Spassky, Viktor Korchnoi, and Petrosian), clear first at Las Palmas 1976, equal first with Gennadi...
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    reserves were needed. The six Interzonal qualifiers were joined by Viktor Korchnoi and Robert Hübner, the Candidates finalists from the previous cycle...
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    dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. With the further exception of Viktor Korchnoi, who had defected from the USSR in 1976, each challenger was also a...
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    in the world in 1977, behind only World Champion Anatoly Karpov and Viktor Korchnoi. He is the first Brazilian to become a grandmaster. Despite winning...
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  • hxg5 20.Nxg5+ Kg8 21.Qf4 Nd7 22.Rxd7 Bxd7 23.Bxf7+ 1–0 Fischer vs. Viktor Korchnoi, Curaçao 1962 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.f4 Bg7 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Be2 c5...
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  • seed GM Viktor Korchnoi (Switzerland) won the 126-player open section 9.0/11. Competing in his first and sole Seniors' Championship, Korchnoi won his...
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  • transposing to a sharp line against the Dutch Defense once tried by Viktor Korchnoi. List of chess openings List of chess openings named after people The...
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  • the age of 66. In 2014, GM Viktor Korchnoi (b. 1931) played a two-game match against GM Wolfgang Uhlmann (b. 1935). Korchnoi won both games. The combined...
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    not included in his opponents' totals. Bent Larsen went on to win, with Korchnoi, Geller, Gligorić, and Portisch taking the next four places. There was...
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    Bronstein refused to sign a group letter denouncing the 1976 defection of Viktor Korchnoi, and he paid a personal price for this independence, as his state-paid...
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  • may have been inspired by the chess careers of Russian grandmasters Viktor Korchnoi and Anatoly Karpov. Chess allegorically reflected the Cold War tensions...
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    Interzonal in Pahlavi Iran, he lost a 1968 semifinal match against Viktor Korchnoi, after defeating Gligorić. Poor health caused a slump in his play from...
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  • Achieved 1 Bobby Fischer 2785 1972-07 2 Anatoly Karpov 2725 1978-01 3 Viktor Korchnoi 2695 1979-01 4 Boris Spassky 2690 1971-07 5 Bent Larsen 2660 1971-07...
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    Germany  Soviet Union 34 Mikhail Tal, Mikhail Botvinnik, Paul Keres, Viktor Korchnoi, Vasily Smyslov, Tigran Petrosian  United States 29 Bobby Fischer,...
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    tournament at Bucharest. Nezhmetdinov was chosen along with Semyon Furman, Viktor Korchnoi and his old friend, Ratmir Kholmov. Prior to leaving for the tournament...
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    Geller and Paul Keres had prearranged to draw all their games, and that Viktor Korchnoi had been instructed to lose to them. Yuri Averbakh, who was head of...
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  • Portisch vs. Korchnoi, 1970 A famous draw for threefold repetition occurred in the fourth game between Lajos Portisch and Viktor Korchnoi in Belgrade in...
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    Tournament (1960), finishing with 8½/19 (+3−5=11), far behind winners Viktor Korchnoi and Samuel Reshevsky with 13/19. According to Larry Evans, Fischer's...
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