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| USSR player. International Grandmaster, 1956. International Master, 1954. USSR Champion, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1970. Dutch Champion, 1977. Swiss Champion, 1982, 1984, 1985. Trivia by Bill Wall Four times Soviet champion and played on six of the USSR's Olympic teams. In the 1970 Chess Olympiad in Skopje, Yugoslavia, Victor overslept and missed his round against Spain lost be default. The round started at 3 pm. He defected to the West in July 1976, after a tournament in Amsterdam. Victor Korchnoi's son, Igor, was sent to a Siberian labor camp for 30 months for refusing military service. In 1991 Korchnoi was granted Swiss citizenship after 14 years of residency. He has appeared in eight Candidates Matches. Chess Career Challenger in the world championship in 1978 and 1981 In 1962, 1968, 1971, 1974, 1983, 1985 and 1988 he was World championship candidate National champion of USSR in 1960, 1962, 1964-1965, and 1970 Dutch national champion in 1977 Swiss national champion in 1982, 1984, and 1985 1st Budapest 1961 1st Yerevan 1965 1st Budva 1967 1st Wijk aan Zee 1968 1st Palma de Majorca 1968 He won the Leningrad championship in 1955, 1957(shared) and 1964 1968 won Reshevsky for candidate match 5.5-2.5 in Amsterdam 1968 won Tal for candidate match 5.5-4.5 in Moscow 1968 lost to Spassky for candidate 3.5-7.5 in Kiev 1971 won Geller for candidate in Moscow 1971 lost to Petrossian for candidate in Moscow 1974 won Mecking for candidate in Augusta 1974 won Petrossian foe candidate in Odessa 1974 lost to Karpov for candidate in Moscow 1977 won Petrossian for candidate in Il Ciocco 1977 won Polougaievski for candidate in Evian 1977 won Spassky for candidate in Belgrad 1978 lost to Karpov for the World championship title in Baguio 1st South Africa 1979 1st equal Buenos Aires 1979 1st equal London 1980 1980 won Petrossian in Velden 1980 won Polugaievski in Buenos Aires 1980 won Hubner in Merano 1st Bad Kissingen 1981 1980 he won the candidates matches against Petrossian, Polugayevsky and Hubner 1981 lost to Karpov for the World championship final in Merano 1983 he won Portish for candidate in Bad Kissingen 1983 lost to Kasparov for candidate final in London 1st equal Wijk aan Zee 1984 1st equal Sarajevo 1984 1st equal Titograd 1984 1st equal Tilburg 1985 1st Brussels 1985 1st equal Vienna (Swiss system) 1986 1st equal Wijk aan Zee 1987 1st equal Beersheba 1987 1988 he lost against Hjartarson for candidate match in Saint-John 1st Zagreb iz 1987 1st Amsterdam (Ohra) 1988 1st equal Clermont Ferrand 1989 1st Beersheba 1990 1991 won Sax for candidate but lost to Timman 1st Las Palmas 1991 1st equal Antwerpen 1993 1993 won match against Piket 6-2 Nijmegen 1st Ostrava 1994 1st San Francisco 1995 1st Madrid 1995 Won match against Xi Jun 3-1 in 1995 1st Cannes 1996 1st Zeichen 1996 1996 won a match against Hernandez Gi. 5.5-2.5 in Merida 1st equal Enghien 1997 1st Ceska Trebova 1997 1st 1998 Sarajevo 1st 1998 Bad Homburg 1st 1998 Zurich 1st 1999 St Petersburg |
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