Viktor Korchnoi, who has died aged 85, was a chess grandmaster who defected from the Soviet Union, then twice challenged the USSR’s Anatoly Karpov for the world title. Their first contest, in 1978 in ...

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1978 - Anatoly Karpov is the World Chess Champion having won the crown back from Bobby Fischer without playing a match. A loyal member of the Communist Party and a personal friend of the Soviet leader ...

Was it a poetic justice that Game 7 fell short of longest game ever in World chess championship history? And he decided to annoy the world champion by playing on. The players were not on speaking ...

GENEVA – Chess grandmaster Victor Korchnoi, a prominent Soviet defector who saw his citizenship restored by Mikhail Gorbachev in the waning days of the USSR, has died. He was 85. The Russian chess ...

Viktor Korchnoi has set another longevity landmark by winning last month's Swiss championship in Grachen at age 78. He scored 7/9, edged out two rivals on tiebreak, and is probably the oldest ever to ...

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Today is the 75th birthday of Viktor Korchnoi, the indefatigable Grandmaster originally from St Petersburg who defected from the USSR in 1976 during a tournament in Amsterdam and fought his way to two ...