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| Mar-26-11 | | polarmis: You can read Korchnoi's "Chess is my Life" here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/6936202/K... He talks about defecting from page 119 on.
A couple of quotes:
<I had of course hinted to my wife and my few remaining friends that I could no longer live under Soviet conditions. But neither my friends, nor my wife, could understand me completely: all the unpleasantness touched directly on me, but on those close to me fell a feeling of bitterness and disgrace on my account. The one who was most upset on account of me was my son. During my darkest days he went to school wearing a badge from the Olympiad in Siegen - with Kortschnoi pinned to his lapel.> <While I had been in the Soviet Union, I had utilized all legal possibilities to show the Soviet people, using chess as an example, what was really going on in our country - how it appeared in the press, and how it was in reality. From now on, if I were in the Soviet Union, there was no way I could be of use to people. With a clear conscience I took the decision - to remain in the West, now and for ever.> Reading the whole section you can completely understand Korchnoi wanting to leave (returning to the USSR at the time could easily have been fatal to his career), but he does seem to skip over the fact that he was abandoning his family. Of course, you could argue that's a private matter and simply not a topic to discuss publicly in a book. Just to add - there's no suggestion from Korchnoi that he had any kind of promise from the USSR about the treatment of his family. |
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| Mar-26-11 | | kingfu: Apologies newzild. I think your anaysis to be 100 per cent correct. Thank you. Karpov and Kasparov played The Gruenfeld Exchange Variation about a million times. It has been analyzed to death , IMO.
It is well known that Korchnoi's family was threatened when he went up against The Soviet's Favorite Son, Karpov. Anytime I fail to come up with something relevant to say, I have an adjustable slogan: It is The Gruenfeld Exchange Variation.
Elucidation is not my strong point. Sometimes I say stupid things. Mea maxima culpa. |
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| Mar-26-11 | | kingfu: Mea maxima culpa is
"My Bad" in Latin. |
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| Apr-15-11 | | Firststep2: Happy birthday Viktor! And long live! Thanks for your games. This is my favorite one: Korchnoi vs Tal, 1962
http://mundoajedrez.com.pe/the-time... |
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Apr-16-11
 | | Tabanus: He plays in San Sebastian Open now, and won the first round. http://www.fgajedrez.org/open-de-sa... |
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| Apr-19-11 | | Ozo Shatranj: hi, i am an italian chessplayer, so forgive me the unproper english... maybe many of you do not know that there is a soviet movie called "grandmaster" where korchnoi plays an important role,and with him there appear tal, taimanov, averbakh and kotov. this is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNsc... but the famous chessplayers start to appear in the fourth part at 06:44 here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTD6... the movie is unfortunately not translated in english but it is surely a nice visual experience. bye and enjoy! |
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| Apr-19-11 | | MaxxLange: <Ozo Shatranj> Thanks! I had not heard of it. |
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May-12-11
 | | ketchuplover: Due to ill health Mr.Korchnoi wil not be facing Mr.Feingold later this month. Mr.Korchnoi is replaced by Mr.Robson. |
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May-12-11
 | | HeMateMe: That's too bad. I was wondering how Korchnoi/Finegold might turn out. |
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| May-28-11 | | lost in space: <<Tabanus:> My favorite player :)> Also one of my favorite player (since at least 1978), but as with Fischer I don't like him as person. There are lot more players with the same characteristic for me: Fischer, Junge, Aljechin, Botwinnik, Karpov... |
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Jun-19-11
 | | Eggman: "Chess" magazine (UK) features an interview with GM Michael Stean, who served as one of Korchnoi's seconds during his World Championship Matches in 1978 and 1981. Stean tells an amusing story about Korchnoi: "If you have time for a diversion, I can tell you my favourite golf story. The match <<Eggman: candidates match with Polugaevsky, 1976>> was played in Evian at a hotel called the Casino Royale, a beautiful hotel overlooking Lake Geneva. It was a very tense atmosphere and I think both players were staying in the same hotel. At one point, I think early on, the match was in the balance, and there was a free day. Viktor was nervous. They had a local golf course and the one sport I did learn at school - which I forgot to mention - was golf. I took Viktor down to the hotel golf course and I took him away from the main fairway with a club and some balls and we treated it as a kind of practice range. I taught him how to hold the club and Viktor, this large, bear-like man, would pick up the club with huge determination and the ground would start to shake. Then this hand-grenade would explode with earth and turf everywhere. But the ball didn't move. By the end of the afternoon this remote part of the golf course look like a microcosm of Passchendaele, with holes all over the place, but Viktor had managed to work off a lot of energy, if not hit a lot of balls. A year or two later, at Baguio <<Eggman: site of 1978 World Championship Match with Karpov>>, we had access to a county club where we used to go jogging in the morning. We were sitting on the veranda having a drink and we were opposite the first hole of the country club golf course. This little Filipino guy came to tee off and he hit the ball with a huge clice, which went off to the right, into the trees. And Viktor shouted out, 'Bravo!'. And I said to him, 'Viktor, you can't say that!' He said, 'Why not? Is big shot, big shot!' So I said to him, 'Well, Viktor, the ball went off to the right and into the trees, but the hole is over there on the left.' So Viktor looked at me with those big Yogi Bear eyes and said, 'What hole!?' I'd never got around to teaching him the rules!" |
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| Jun-19-11 | | Shams: <Eggman> Great story. |
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Jun-20-11
 | | perfidious: <Eggman> That story is priceless. If one were to substitute the great man's name with mine, the result would have been about the same, though unlike Korchnoi, I understood the object of the game. Just couldn't hit to save my life! |
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| Jun-20-11 | | bronkenstein: Hahaha excellent story <Eggman>, made me laugh for real xD |
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Jun-20-11
| | Eggman: Speaking of Korchnoi stories, this one certainly made me chuckle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izd6... |
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| Jun-20-11 | | bronkenstein: Just check his white KID score , especially in the 50s, 60s and 70s ... (17:2 in resultative games just on the first page ...I really CBAed to count through 11 pages , the ratio seems similar up to 90s) The old man was right ;) |
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| Jun-20-11 | | M.D. Wilson: He really loathed the KID and made some KID players look childish. Pardon the pun. |
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| Jul-17-11 | | bronkenstein: GZ Viktor Lvovich on winning Swiss championship again! |
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| Jul-17-11 | | I play the Fred: Again? At 80 years old? I'm guessing the Swiss championship isn't the strongest National Championship around, but jeez! |
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| Jul-17-11 | | bronkenstein: Details on Viktor`s victory @ http://www.whychess.org/en/node/828 |
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| Jul-20-11 | | Albertan: Viktor Korchnoi - A Pleasant Interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3k8... |
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| Jul-20-11 | | Albertan: Korchnoi is defeated by a cow:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUZS... |
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| Jul-20-11 | | Albertan: BBC Master Game 1980: Robert Byrne versus Korchnoi:
Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1x_... Part 2:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y-1... |
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| Aug-13-11 | | Albertan: Amber Chess 2011: Viktor Kortchnoi:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72yj... |
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| Aug-16-11 | | Zugzwangovich: In the 9/5/94 Inside Chess issue, Korch the Torch says in an interview, "Do you know that my match against Karpov in Merano 1981 was fully prearranged at the highest political level in the Soviet Union? This can be testified to by official documents of the KGB..." What could Viktor mean by this? That the match result was pre-arranged by the KGB, that they made him lose it at gunpoint? This was five years after he had defected from the Soviet Union; were they still holding his family hostage or something? In any event, in his radio rant of 1/19/00 the late RJF used this quote to support his own claims about matches being pre-arranged by the Soviets. |
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