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✴️ Chess History - Tournaments
🔸 Zagreb Interzonal 1987
▪️Viktor Korchnoi, the veteran grandmaster and many times world challenger, now living in and playing for Switzerland, was the victor in the third and last of the interzonals, Aug. 1-23, at Zagreb, Yugoslavia. Playing aggressive, superlative chess, Korchnoi fashioned a score of 11-6, a full point more than any other player could muster. The United States finally qualified a player from these interzonals into the next round of the world championship competition when Yasser Seirawan parlayed an elegant technique and a delicate touch to tie for second place with International Master Jaan Ehlvest of the Soviet Union. These three players will now join 11 others going into the candidates' matches scheduled for late January and early February in St. John, New Brunswick.
▪️The strength of the Zagreb interzonal tournament is obvious from the roster of grandmasters trailing: Predrag Nikolic of Yugoslavia, Jes'us Nogueiras of Cuba, and Julio Granda Zuniga of Peru, with 9 points; Eugenio Torre of the Philippines with 9; Jozsef Pinter of Hungary, Lev Polugayevsky and Vereslav Eingorn of the Soviet Union, and Yehuda Gruenfeld of Israel, with 8.
♦️Korchnoi's imaginative effort against Seirawan won the best-played-game prize!!
✔️ The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
✔️ Download "Zagreb 1987 Games Database" by PGN format👇
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✴️ Chess History - Tournaments
🔸 Zagreb Interzonal 1987
▪️Viktor Korchnoi, the veteran grandmaster and many times world challenger, now living in and playing for Switzerland, was the victor in the third and last of the interzonals, Aug. 1-23, at Zagreb, Yugoslavia. Playing aggressive, superlative chess, Korchnoi fashioned a score of 11-6, a full point more than any other player could muster. The United States finally qualified a player from these interzonals into the next round of the world championship competition when Yasser Seirawan parlayed an elegant technique and a delicate touch to tie for second place with International Master Jaan Ehlvest of the Soviet Union. These three players will now join 11 others going into the candidates' matches scheduled for late January and early February in St. John, New Brunswick.
▪️The strength of the Zagreb interzonal tournament is obvious from the roster of grandmasters trailing: Predrag Nikolic of Yugoslavia, Jes'us Nogueiras of Cuba, and Julio Granda Zuniga of Peru, with 9 points; Eugenio Torre of the Philippines with 9; Jozsef Pinter of Hungary, Lev Polugayevsky and Vereslav Eingorn of the Soviet Union, and Yehuda Gruenfeld of Israel, with 8.
♦️Korchnoi's imaginative effort against Seirawan won the best-played-game prize!!
✔️ The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
✔️ Download "Zagreb 1987 Games Database" by PGN format👇
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#chess_history_tornaments
#Zagreb_1987
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