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Died-known chess player Viktor Korchnoi

June 6, 2016, 18:31

Viktor Korchnoi Photo: Wikipedia

The Switzerland on 86 th year of life died grandmaster Viktor Korchnoi.
 

Viktor L. Korchnoi – a four-time champion of the Soviet Union (1960, 1962, 1964, 1970), the “Soviet Sport”.

return to the USSR refused to Korchnoi tournament in Amsterdam (summer 1976 year), I settled in Switzerland, was in 1994, Swiss nationality, has performed at international competitions for this country. Korchnoi Soviet citizenship was stripped in 1978.

Gene Korchnoi Isabella and son Igor was denied exit from the USSR (they have applied to emigrate to Israel). On this occasion, according to notes of the KGB (number 1167-A of 12/6/78 and the number 2093-A of 30/10/78.) Published a special resolution of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the CPSU “Bad trip abroad defector family Korchnoi VL and antisocial actions of members his family. ” Igor was expelled from the institute, he tried to call on the army, but he evaded conscription during the year (after his military service he could legally prohibit leaving the Soviet Union as a potential carrier of military secrets), and then surrendered to the authorities, he was arrested and convicted two and a half years in prison for draft evasion.

Although the conviction itself was technically legal, it was furnished as a clear reduction of accounts. It turned out even a special TASS: “There was a trial of the son known for his scandalous behavior grandmaster Korchnoi.” Efforts to secure the release of the grandmaster’s son, and permission to leave the family through letters to Brezhnev and appeals to the “intelligentsia of the USSR” no to no avail. Only six years later, the family was able to leave.

There have been attempts to achieve a lifetime ban Korchnoi, boycott it. Name Korchnoi tried not to mention in the Soviet media during the world championship match against Karpov called him “bidder” that turned the word into a kind of a curse. Official boycott Korchnoi nobody declared, but in some cases the Soviet chess players demonstratively refused to participate in international tournaments, if they played Korchnoi, putting the organizers a choice: either do not allow Korchnoi act or the Soviet delegation boycotted the tournament

at the same time representatives of the Soviet sports organizations stated: “no boycott not just our players do not want to meet with Korchnoi and completely independently refuse to go to tournaments, where he serves»

Thanks to the efforts of the West to the organizers, not all succumbed. blackmail and Korchnoi had the opportunity to play and earn a living, but, according to estimates of journalists iz-za boycott GM lost the opportunity to participate in dozens of tournaments.

in 1990, along with other dissidents, declared in its while the enemies of the Soviet Union, Korchnoi was rehabilitated and restored in citizenship. He offered to return, but he flatly refused.

Korchnoi twice played a match for the world crown with Anatoly Karpov (Baguio, 1978 and Merano, 1981), but in both cases gave way to a younger rival.

He is a multiple winner of major international tournaments and World chess Olympiads, author of a series of books on opening theory and the history of chess.

in August 2011, at the age of 80 years, Korchnoi won the tournament, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mikhail Botvinnik.