Who won Karpov vs Korchnoi?
Who won Karpov vs Korchnoi?
Korchnoi won game 21, but Karpov won game 27, putting him on the brink of victory with a 5–2 lead….1976 Interzonal tournaments.
| Boris Spassky ( Soviet Union ) | |
| 5 | 1 |
| 6 | ½ |
| 7 | 0 |
| 8 | 0 |
Was Viktor Korchnoi a world champion?
Karpov was declared World Champion in 1975 when GM Bobby Fischer declined to defend his title. Korchnoi then won two consecutive Candidates cycles to qualify for World Championship matches with Karpov in 1978 and 1981, but lost both….
| Viktor Korchnoi | |
|---|---|
| Title | Grandmaster (1956) |
| Peak rating | 2695 (January 1979) |
What is the shortest chess game ever?
The shortest game ever registered between two grand masters, was in four moves. Lazard defeated Gibaud in a chess cafè in Paris in 1924.
What happened to Korchnoi in the 1974 World Championship?
After narrowly losing in their 1974 Candidates’ match finals (which ended up as a de facto world championship match since Bobby Fischer forfeited a year later), Korchnoi was once again extremely close to the top of the chess mountain. The match was the first to six wins (and unlike Karpov-Kasparov, 1984, they actually got there!).
What happened in the Karpov-Kasparov match?
The match was the first to six wins (and unlike Karpov-Kasparov, 1984, they actually got there!). Karpov broke out to a 4-1 lead and then was up 5-2 when Korchnoi rallied, winning three out of four in games 28-31 to level the score at 5-5. Here’s Korchnoi’s clever idea in game 28, which still only made the margin 5-3.
Why did Korchnoi abandon the Spanish and French in game 32?
But maybe the glare of Zukhar or the color of the yogurt finally got to Korchnoi, as he abandoned the Spanish and French in game 32 in favor of the Pirc (which he had used once before earlier in the match). Karpov kept the queens on, and kept the title:
Why did Korchnoi wear sunglasses in the closing Gambit?
And more recently, the documentary “Closing Gambit” reminded the public of other eccentricities of the match, like Korchnoi demanding to play with either a Swiss flag or a flag reading “Stateless” (in the end, he used no flag). Korchnoi also wore sunglasses while competing long before Hikaru Nakamura came to the board with them.
