Viktor Korchnoi, chess player and cold war defector, 1931-2016

Karpov - Korchnoi World Championship Match (1981) chess event

Douglas Griffin on X: Karpov-Korchnoi, 18th match-game, FIDE Candidates' final, Moscow 1974. (Source: TASS, photographer: V. Savostianov.) #chess / X

Chess game: Karpov x Korchnoi

KARPOV - KORCHNOI 1978: The Inside Story (A Batsford chess book) by Keene, Raymond: Very Good Plus Paperback (1978) First Edition

Viktor Korchnoi Quote: “The aim was simple: to deprive Karpov of his favourite occupation – standing at the board, staring straight at his oppon”

Karpov – Korchnoi, World championship Baguio 1978 - Listing # 29737 - Preserving the past and the future

Karpov X Korchnoi Merano 81 Herbert Carvalho

Viktor Korchnoi

International Chess Federation on X: The famous Soviet, and then Swiss grandmaster Viktor Korchnoi was born #onthisday in 1931. A 10-time World Championship Candidate, he contested a Candidates final and two matches

Karpov Korchnoi 1981 by Keene, Raymond