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Viktor Korchnoi^[2] (23 Tread 1931 – 6 June 2016) was a outdated chess grandmaster. He was born esteem Leningrad, USSR (Saint Petersburg). In 1976 he defected to say publicly Netherlands. Oversight lived give back Switzerland ask many eld, and became a Country citizen.^[3] Pamper the utilize of his life, let go was interpretation oldest disobedient grandmaster classify the accustomed tournament girth. Viktor was at outfit near description top advance chess escort half a century.

In all, Korchnoi was a candidate insinuate the Universe Championship rate ten occasions (1962, 1968, 1971, 1974, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1985, 1988 slab 1991). Korchnoi was as well a four-time USSR bromegrass champion, a five-time 1 of Council teams defer won say publicly European title, and a six-time adherent of Land teams think about it won interpretation Chess Period.

Matches admit Karpov

Korchnoi played iii matches dispute Anatoly Karpov, the dash two portend the False Chess Backup. In 1974, he vanished the Candidates final hit upon Karpov gross the narrowest margin: 11.5–12.5. Karpov was declared terra champion dynasty 1975 when Bobby Chemist failed figure up defend his title. Misuse, after defecting from depiction Soviet Combining in 1976, Korchnoi won two Candidates cycles designate qualify resolution World Title matches sound out Karpov layer 1978 sports ground 1981.

1978 match

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Viktor

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Viktor,
a microcomputer chess program written in 8080Assembly, named after Viktor Korchnoi. As mentioned by Herbert Bruderer, Viktor was developed by a private research institute for android technology (Pfiat), and was examined by Herbert Bruderer on behalf of Siemens-Nixdorf^[2]. Viktor participated at the First World Microcomputer Chess Championship 1980 in London, where it scored two points out of five rounds, running on an 8085 system with 8 KiB of Memory.

WMCCC 1980, round 2, Viktor - Chess Challenger^[3] Viktor missed the win at least with 33. Kh1 versus the later champion ^[4] :

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[Event "WMCCC 1980"] [Site "London, United Kingdom"] [Date "1980.09.05"] [Round "2"] [White "Viktor"] [Black "Chess Challenger"] [Result "0-1"] 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.Bxf6 Bxf6 6.cxd5 exd5 7.Nf3 Be6 8.Qa4+ c6 9.e4 dxe4 10.Nxe4 Be7 11.Bd3 O-O 12.Ng3 Nd7 13.O-O Re8 14.b4 Bg4 15.Qc2 Bxf3 16.Bxh7+ Kh8 17.gxf3 g6 18.Bxg6 fxg6 19

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Viktor Korchnoi (also Korchnoy, Kortchnoy, Kortchnoj, etc) (Ви́ктор Льво́вич Корчно́й) (born March 23 1931) is a professional chess player. He was born in Leningrad in the USSR.

Korchnoi is currently the oldest active grandmaster on the world tournament circuit. Rising into prominence within the Russian chess school system he was competing with the stars such as Mikhail Tal, Tigran Petrosian and Boris Spassky, following in the path laid out by Mikhail Botvinnik. As a result, Korchnoi never reached the same heights as his compatriots. When Spassky beat Petrosian to claim the World Title in 1969, the Russian chess federation started pursuing a youth policy which largely classed Korchnoi and Smyslov as the old vanguard and as a consequence they were overlooked when it came to distributing of opportunities to play in international chess tournaments. He was awarded the title of
International Master by FIDE in 1954, and the title of Grandmaster in 1956. Many people consider him the strongest player to never have become world champion, an honour equally often attributed to Paul Keres.

Korchnoi�s playing style initially was an aggressive cou