Trying to find 'Closing Gambit: 1978 Korchnoi versus Karpov and the Kremlin' right from your couch? Figuring out where to stream, rent, buy, or watch where to watch the Alan Byron-helmed movie can be ...

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 ...

Two of Russia’s finest chess grandmasters, Anatoliy Karpov, and Viktor Korchnoi, both enlisted the help of parapsychologists during their battle to be world champion in 1978. The match was arguably ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Victor Korchnoi, who has died aged 85, was one of the most enduringly consistent grandmasters on the international circuit and reckoned by some to have been the strongest chess player never to have ...