▪️ Viktor Korchnoi
▪️ Soviet-Swiss Chess Grandmaster and Writer
♦️ 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)
♦️ Korchnoi first qualified as a candidate from the 1962 Stockholm Inter-zonal, scoring 14/22 for a shared 4–5th-place finish, as Fischer won. The 1962 Candidates tournament, the last held in a round-robin format until 1985, was held at Curaçao a few months later, and Korchnoi placed fifth out of eight with an even score, 13½/27, while Tigran Petrosian won and earned the right to challenge Botvinnik. Korchnoi's score included two victories over Fischer, one being a brilliant win employing the Pirc Defense with the black pieces.
Korchnoi won at Havana 1963 with 16½/21, but fared less well in the next Soviet Championship, URS-ch31 at Leningrad, with just 10/19 for 10th place. He missed qualifying for the next world championship cycle, 1964–66, because of a relatively poor showing at the 1964 Zonal tournament in Moscow, where he made 5½/12 for a shared 5–6th place, so did not advance to the Inter-zonal. Korchnoi regained his form with an overwhelming triumph at Gyula, Hungary, in 1965 with 14½/15. He won at Bucharest 1966 with 12½/14, and at the Chigorin Memorial in Sochi 1966 with 11½/15.
♦️ A memorable game by Korchnoi against Spassky which known "Chess Crisis" in chessgames site 👇🏼
🔹 Viktor Korchnoi vs Boris Spassky
🔹 Korchnoi - Spassky Candidates Final (1977), Belgrade YUG, rd 7, Dec-09
🔹 Queen's Gambit Declined: Tartakower Defense. General (D58)
♦️ Revew and download PGN file👇🏼
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▪️ Soviet-Swiss Chess Grandmaster and Writer
♦️ 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)
♦️ Korchnoi first qualified as a candidate from the 1962 Stockholm Inter-zonal, scoring 14/22 for a shared 4–5th-place finish, as Fischer won. The 1962 Candidates tournament, the last held in a round-robin format until 1985, was held at Curaçao a few months later, and Korchnoi placed fifth out of eight with an even score, 13½/27, while Tigran Petrosian won and earned the right to challenge Botvinnik. Korchnoi's score included two victories over Fischer, one being a brilliant win employing the Pirc Defense with the black pieces.
Korchnoi won at Havana 1963 with 16½/21, but fared less well in the next Soviet Championship, URS-ch31 at Leningrad, with just 10/19 for 10th place. He missed qualifying for the next world championship cycle, 1964–66, because of a relatively poor showing at the 1964 Zonal tournament in Moscow, where he made 5½/12 for a shared 5–6th place, so did not advance to the Inter-zonal. Korchnoi regained his form with an overwhelming triumph at Gyula, Hungary, in 1965 with 14½/15. He won at Bucharest 1966 with 12½/14, and at the Chigorin Memorial in Sochi 1966 with 11½/15.
♦️ A memorable game by Korchnoi against Spassky which known "Chess Crisis" in chessgames site 👇🏼
🔹 Viktor Korchnoi vs Boris Spassky
🔹 Korchnoi - Spassky Candidates Final (1977), Belgrade YUG, rd 7, Dec-09
🔹 Queen's Gambit Declined: Tartakower Defense. General (D58)
♦️ Revew and download PGN file👇🏼
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Grenke Classic Rd 2 in Baden-Baden: Carlsen (2845) beat Hou Yifan, Vachier-Lagrave (2795) beat Anand (2769) , Aronian (2768) beat Naiditsch (2700), Vitiugov (2742) beat Meier, and Caruana (2803) drew with Bluebaum. There are 787 players in the Open section.
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Nikita Vitiugov leads the #GRENKEChess Classic after 2 rounds, though the chasing pack looks pretty strong!
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The winner of the GRENKE Chess Open 2018: Vincent Keymer! Once again , congratulations! What an amazing tournament for the 13-year old.
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Vincent Keymer wins the GRENKE Chess Open 2018! | Magnus Carlsen draws at the GRENKE Chess Classic.
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Grenke Classic Rd 3: Caruana beat Bluebaum and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (MVL) beat Yifan Hou. All other games drawn. MVL and Vitiugov lead with 2.5 out of 3. Rd 4 is on April 4 when it will be Carlsen-MVL, Aronian-Yifan Hou, Vitiugov-Anand, Caruana-Naiditsch, and Bluebaum-Meier.
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