Viktor Korchnoi / Died
June 6, 2016 (age 85 years), Wohlen, Switzerland
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Why did Korchnoi defect?
Korchnoi had decided to defect from the Soviet Union, following the Candidates Final match between Bobby Fischer and Karpov, accusing the Soviet authorities of unfair partiality towards the young Karpov.
Who was the best chess player who was never world champion?
The Greatest Chess Players (Who Never Became World Champion)
Paul Morphy.
Adolf Anderssen.
Akiva Rubinstein.
Samuel Reshevsky.
David Bronstein.
Did any Soviet chess players defect?
As a result, after the chess tournament in Amsterdam, Korchnoi became the first strong Soviet grandmaster to defect from the Soviet Union. Korchnoi left his wife and son behind.
Who was the Russian chess master who defected?
Viktor Korchnoi (born March 23, 1931, Leningrad, Russia, U.S.S.R. [now St. Petersburg, Russia]—died June 6, 2016, Wohlen, Switzerland) was a world chess champion contender who was one of the fiercest competitors in the history of chess. During his prime years he was known as “Viktor the Terrible.”
Viktor Korchnoi ; 6 June 2016(2016-06-06) (aged 85) Wohlen, Aargau, Switzerland · Grandmaster (1956) · 2695 (January 1979) · No. 2 (January 1976) ...
Jun 6, 2016 · Viktor Korchnoi dies at 85 ... 6/6/2016 – He was one of the truly great chess players, a legend. He played in three matches that produced the ...
Jun 6, 2016 · Viktor Korchnoi, many people's choice as the greatest player not to have won the World Championship, has passed away at the age of 85.
Jun 7, 2016 · Today Viktor Korchnoi died at the age of 85 in a hospital in Wohlen, Switzerland. Korchnoi had been ill for some time and was hospitalized last ...
Russian chess legend Viktor Korchnoi dies at 85 in Switzerland
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Jun 6, 2016 · Chess grandmaster and four-times Soviet chess champion who fled to the West, Viktor Korchnoi, has died aged 85 in Switzerland on Monday.
Jun 6, 2016 · Viktor Korchnoi, Chess Giant Who Drew Soviet Ire, Dies at 85. Share full article.
Jun 7, 2016 · Chess grandmaster Viktor Korchnoi -- often regarded as the greatest player never to have won the world title -- has died in Switzerland, aged ...
Jun 6, 2016 · Viktor Korchnoi, who has died aged 85, was a chess grandmaster who defected from the Soviet Union, then twice challenged the USSR's Anatoly ...
