Viktor Korchnoi - Wikipedia
WEBViktor Lvovich Korchnoi [3] (Russian: Виктор Львович Корчной, IPA: [vʲiktər lʲvovʲɪtɕ kɐrtɕˈnoj]; 23 March 1931 – 6 June 2016) was a Soviet (before 1976) and Swiss (after 1980) chess grandmaster (GM) and chess writer. He is considered one of the strongest players never to have become World Chess Champion.
Viktor Korchnoi | Top Chess Players - Chess.com
WEBJun 6, 2016 · Viktor Korchnoi. Life. Mar 23, 1931 - Jun 6, 2016 (age 85). Place of birth. Leningrad, Soviet Union. Federation. Switzerland. Bio. GM Viktor Korchnoi (1931-2016) was a Soviet and later Swiss grandmaster who achieved nearly every possible chess success in a roughly 70-year career (approximately from 1945 to 2015) other than a …
Viktor Korchnoi | World Champion Challenger, Defector ...
WEBApr 25, 2024 · 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.”.
Garry Kasparov On Viktor Korchnoi - Chess.com
WEBJun 7, 2016 · The great Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi died Tuesday in Switzerland at the age of 85. His longevity as a top-level player and his fighting spirit were such that it was easy to hope that he might trick Death himself in a rook endgame and live forever!
Viktor Korchnoi obituary | Chess | The Guardian
WEBJun 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 Karpov for the world title. Their first contest, in...
Viktor Korchnoi, Chess Giant Who Drew Soviet Ire, Dies at 85
WEBJun 7, 2016 · Viktor Korchnoi, who was widely considered one of the greatest chess players in history but never captured the world championship in more than 60 years as an elite competitor, died on Monday in...
Viktor Korchnoi | World Chess Hall of Fame
WEBApr 9, 2018 · World Chess. Hall of Fame. Inducted 2017. Viktor Korchnoi was arguably the strongest player never to become world chess champion. He is best known for the three World Championship matches he played with Anatoly Karpov in 1974, 1978 and 1981—losing the first two by only a single game.
Viktor Korchnoi, chess player and cold war defector, 1931-2016
WEBJun 10, 2016 · Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi was born in Leningrad on March 23 1931, his mother a Jewish pianist and his Christian father a literature teacher. His father died fighting the Nazis. Korchnoi endured...
The Almost Champ: who is Viktor Korchnoi - Chess.com
WEBJan 31, 2024, 11:46 PM | 0. In the chess world, Viktor Korchnoi is the maestro who nearly won it all but never got the big prize—the World Chess Championship. Born in 1931 in Russia, Korchnoi was a chess wizard with a never-give-up attitude and a flair for playing chess beautifully.
The Life and Chess of Victor Korchnoi - YouTube
WEBNov 20, 2014 · 23K views 9 years ago. Though never a World Champion, no player has sustained a championship level of play for as long as Viktor Korchnoi. From his first USSR Junior Championship in 1947 to his...
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