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Viktor 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.
Jun 6, 2016 · 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.
Jun 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!
Jun 2, 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.
Jun 6, 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 week after suffering from internal bleeding, Chess-News reports.
Born 1931, two-times contender for the world championship, Viktor Korchnoi is a piece of living chess history. In the 60 years of his career he has crossed swords with practically all great players of the past and present, including Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov.
Jun 10, 2016 · For much of his later life, as he racked up formidable results in top chess tournaments, Viktor Korchnoi began to give the impression that he might just end up cheating death altogether.
Apr 15, 2024 · Victor Korchnoi (1931-2016) Edward Winter. The complete photograph (also showing his opponent, Miroslav Filip) had been published on page 140 of Chess Review, May 1962. The three photographs below come from our archives and were shown in C.N.s 9507, 9626 and 9787: Victor Korchnoi, Jóhann Hjartarson, Belgrade, 1987.
Jun 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 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.
