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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 world championship. He played in 10 Candidates tournaments over nearly 30 years from 1962-91, winning two of them but never becoming champion.
Korchnoi was also a four-time Soviet chess champion and five-time Swiss champion, winning his last of the latter in 2011 at the age of 80.
Early Life And Career
Korchnoi learned chess at five years old from his father Lev, who died during the Siege of Leningrad in World War II when Viktor was 10. But Viktor survived and after the war ended, he participated in the Soviet under-18 championship in 1946. Among his opponents was fellow future GM Tigran Petrosian. Korchnoi, 15, lost to the 17-year-old Petrosian. The next year, however, Korchnoi won the Soviet Junior Championship.
Korchnoi earned the Soviets’ master title in 1950 and became an IM in 1954, while earning a degree from Leningrad State University away from the board. Although he did not win the Soviet Championship in this time, he was almost always competitive in it.
Grandmaster
By the mid-1950s, Korchnoi was enjoying international success, culminating with earning h
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Viktor Korchnoi
Viktor Korchnoi[2] (23 March 1931 – 6 June 2016) was a professional chess grandmaster. He was born in Leningrad, USSR (Saint Petersburg). In 1976 he defected to the Netherlands. He lived in Switzerland for many years, and became a Swiss citizen.[3] Towards the end of his life, he was the oldest active grandmaster on the regular tournament circuit. Viktor was at or near the top in chess for half a century.
In all, Korchnoi was a candidate for the World Championship on ten occasions (1962, 1968, 1971, 1974, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1985, 1988 and 1991). Korchnoi was also a four-time USSR chess champion, a five-time member of Soviet teams that won the European championship, and a six-time member of Soviet teams that won the Chess Olympiad.
Matches against Karpov
[change | change source]Korchnoi played three matches against Anatoly Karpov, the latter two for the World Chess Championship. In 1974, he lost the Candidates final to Karpov by the narrowest margin: 11.5–12.5. Karpov was declared world champion in 1975 when Bobby Fischer failed to defend his title. Then, after defecting from the Soviet Union in 1976, Korchnoi won two Candidates cycles to qualify for World Championship matches with Karpov in 1978 and 1981.