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🔹Viktor Korchnoi
🔹Soviet-Swiss Chess Grandmaster and Writer

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💠 #about_Korchnoi

🔹 Viktor Korchnoi
🔹 Soviet and Swiss chess grandmaster

🔰 Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi was a Soviet and Swiss chess grandmaster and writer. He is considered one of the strongest players never to have become World Chess Champion.

🔘 Full name: Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi
🔘 Country: Soviet Union (until 1976)
Switzerland (since 1994)
🔘 Born: 23 March 1931
Leningrad, Soviet Union
🔘 Died: 6 June 2016 (aged 85)
Wohlen, Switzerland
🔘 Title: Grandmaster (1956)
🔘 Peak rating: 2695 (January 1979)

🔰Victor Korchnoi, a chess legend and probably the strongest vice-champion ever, was playing actively and successfully at the age of 78. However, this remarkable grandmaster is known not only for his chess masterpieces. His eccentric behaviour and poisonous insults towards his opponents have become famous not only among his colleagues. Victor was a fierce fighter, and one of the most bitter chess critics ever.

At one team event Korchnoi was playing against a young grandmaster. The guy sacrificed a rook, but failed to find the winning continuation, so the game ended in a draw. Many spectators have been watching, and in solemn silence came Korchnoi's proprietary remark: "You are the DUMBEST chess player I have ever seen!". The GM had to swallow his pride, become red like Santa, and walk away in a shock (btw, that's the typical behavior of Korchnoi's victims). A fellow well-known grandmaster came up to him and tried to reassure him: "It's all right, never mind".

Guess what happened during the next round?! This time Korchnoi was to play the young GM's savior. The game ended somehow (usually it doesn't matter), and Korchnoi has spat out something along the lines of "you haven't got a clue how to play chess!". A crowd has already gathered around the table, everyone was prepared to see a show. Korchnoi's opponent reacted instantly and with a smile: "Victor Lvovich, could you please...F... OFF!" Victor the Insulter was quite shocked, while everyone in the hall applauded and cheered!
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SOURCE: NATALIA POGONINA's WEBSITE

♦️ A memorable game by Korchnoi👇🏼
🔸Viktor Korchnoi vs Yasser Seirawan
🔸Zagreb Interzonal (1987), Zagreb CRO, rd 15, Aug-??
🔸English Opening: Anglo-Indian Defense. Queen's Indian Formation (A15)
🔻🔻This game won the best-played-game prize of Zagreb Interzonal 1987!!

♦️ PGN format of this game is in:👇
"Zagreb Interzonal 1987 Games Database"👉| https://t.me/unitychess/11288 |
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✔️ Zagreb Interzonal 1987 Games Database
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