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Larry Christiansen vs Viktor Korchnoi
Reykjavik Open (2000), Reykjavik ISL, rd 9, Apr-13
French Defense: McCutcheon. Lasker Variation (C12)  ·  0-1

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Oct-01-24  ewan14: Victor plays the McCutcheon , and wins , just to increase his legend status even more !
Oct-01-24  areknames: Good game. Korchnoi played and understood the French so well and was a major reason it was part of my repertoire for years. I still believe to this day he would have been World Champion had he played 1..e6 in that fateful, last game in Baguio City.
Oct-01-24
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  perfidious: I demur from that view--which I would have liked to see come off--only because while Korchnoi had held his great adversary to draws in all their games after 3.Nd2 c5, he was on the edge of the precipice in the last of these, Karpov vs Korchnoi, 1978.

It is my opinion that Korchnoi turned to such lines as the 5....exf6 Caro-Kann--not previously a part of his praxis--because he had also come in for a rough time in the Open Spanish at Baguio.

Oct-01-24  areknames: <perf> as with all counterfactual hypothesis we will never know but I seriously doubt that a shell-shocked Karpov would have commanded the stamina to grind down Korchnoi in a Tarrasch. As it turned out, in hindsight anything would have been better than that terrible Pirc.
Oct-01-24
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  perfidious: I was in Boston for a tournament when I read of the anticlimactic finish and could hardly believe it on seeing the opening chosen in that disastrous 32nd game, but Korchnoi had to be at wits' end--as Fischer surely was--in the face of the Soviets' formidable theoretical armoury.

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