<From Levenfisch & Lilienthal to Carlsen & Caruana>

Viktor Korchnoi faced and beat players from four to five player generations:

> winning among others versus the following notable chess players already active on a high level before World War II: mentioned Levenfish, Lilienthal; Lisitsin, Sokolsky, Mikenas, Guimard, Barcza, Golombek, Rossolimo, Bondarevsky, Kluger, Nezhmetdinov, Stahlberg, Pirc, Prins, Paoli, Flohr, Najdorf, Reshevsky, Keres, and Botvinnik,

> winning versus Smyslov and the rising post-war youngsters — Korchnoi's generation: Bronstein, Geller, Petrosian, Tal, Polugaevsky, Stein, and Spassky, as well as versus Fischer, Larsen & Co.,

> winning vs. the (then new) Karpovian generation, suceeded by Kasparov and his computer followers, with Karpov always 20 years younger, Kasparov 32 years younger than Viktor the Terrible

> winning with about 40 year-odds vs. elite players as Gelfand, Ivanchuk, Shirov, Topalov, Svidler, Leko, Judit Polgar, with having still a substantial lifetime plus against players about forty years younger of a calibre as eg. Akopian, Lautier or Piket.

> winning with about 50 year-odds vs. Vallejo Pons (born 1982), Ponomariov (b 1983), Bacrot (b 1983), Grischuk (b 1983), Gashimov (b 1986, R.I.P. 2014), Carlsen (b 1990), Caruana (b 1994)

> Oldest great player against whom Korchnoi won (1953): GRIGORY LEVENFISH, born 1889, GM 1950 (GM title inauguration)

> Youngest great player (2700+) against whom Korchnoi won (2011): FABIANO CARUANA, born 1992, GM since 2007

(There are even later born players beaten by Korchnoi under regular tournament conditions, but these players are at that time too young to be considered as already at top level, among others: Hou Yifan, born 1994)

> First win against (future) World Champion: 1952 versus GM Smyslov at Moscow, 20th USSR Championship

> Last win against (future) World Champion: 2004/05 versus GM Carlsen at Drammen (with Carlsen beating Shirov)

<Schach-Event der Extraklasse in Leipzig 2014>, Veranstaltung auf Initiative von Dr. Gerhard Köhler, ORWO Net AG, Wolfen, Deutscher Schachbund DSB, Emanuel-Lasker-Gesellschaft und der Universität Leipzig:

If health allows, then Viktor Lvovich and Boris Vasilievich will play four games, from (this) Friday, 28th march 2014 on, with live coverage.

The official announcements:

<http://www.pressetext.com/news/2014...>

<http://www.schachgemeinschaft-leipz...>

<http://www.schachbund.de/news/schac...>

For Viktor Korchnoi it is not a come-back, it is a continuation and the first public games after he suffered a stroke in september 2012.

And the city of Leipzig creates also reminiscences of his first Chess Olympiads for the USSR in 1960 on board 4, whith Tal, Botvinnik, Keres, Korchnoi and Smyslov, Petrosian as reserve - what an incredible line-up! Even a formation of the then not nominated Bronstein, Spassky, Geller, Stein, Polugaevsky, Taimanov would be most certainly better that time than every other nation on this planet.

A survey of Leipzig 1960 with pictures of young Bobby Fischer, the wizard Tal, Korchnoi (once called the Tal in-reverse), elder statesman Max Euwe, sixteen years young Vlastimil Hort (doesn't he looks a bit like Carlsen?) or Manuel Aaron, the first indian International Master who did much for the popularization of the game in India:

<http://de.chessbase.com/post/schach...>

Live coverage from the University of Leipzig:

<http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~zmk/news...>

Korchnoi (in wheelchair, seconded at the entry by his wife Petra) is playing against Wolfgang Uhlmann. Exhibition with one hour each.

Wolfgang Uhlmann, former Candidate, 1971 quarter-final vs. Larsen, and also member of the "Rest of the World" team in the famous match vs. the USSR in 1970, leading player for decades of former East Germany and undoubtedly the GDR's most successful ever.

Boris Spassky had to withdraw of health problems or / and it was a misunderstanding <http://chess-news.ru/en/node/14817>, he was greeted warmly at the Opening ceremony.

Korchnoi (*1931) vs. Uhlmann (*1935): A duel of two major french defense experts! Let's go!

Dr. Gerhard Köhler, an amateur player and student player in the 1970s who is also engaged in popularizing chess for kids, made this chess summit possible:

Spassky as did many young children left Leningrad by train; but it's not clear when he did so : just before the siege, or following the winter 1941-42, when a railroad was built on the icy Lake Ladoga, providing an escape for citizens of Leningrad. It's also not clear when he actually learned chess, in this train as the legend says, or shortly after in the Kirov Oblast.

In a 1988 interview, he said: <As a result of this attitude towards me [post-Reykjavik] I started to fight against the Sports Committee. I started to fight against the political system. If a professional chess player is not sent abroad he can do nothing. I would have had to change my profession. I didn't become a dissident intentionally. Because I was a dissident, Kortchnoi wasn't. At that time Kortchnoi was a typical collaborator, an opportunist. The Sports Committee played a special game with him. (In a soothing tone) They forgave him something, some of his sins, some of his interviews. But my situation was very, very critical, as I got no tournaments.>

<http://www.argedrez.com.ar/pgnviewe...>

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