Karpov Menjinakkan Naga Korchnoi (Anatoly Karpov VS Viktor Korchnoi)

On this day in 1978, Anatoly Karpov defeated Viktor Korchnoi 16½-15½ in Baguio City, winning one of the most bizarre and controversial world championship matches of all time. : r/chess

Karpov - Korchnoi World Championship Match (1978) chess event

Winning Moves of Anatoly Karpov

Douglas Griffin on X: Hastings, December 1971. Soviet GMs Viktor Korchnoi & Anatoly Karpov pose for a photo. They went on to share 1st-2nd place in the Hastings International, ahead of Mecking

Karpov vs Kortschnoi in the movies: The World Champion

Jesse February on X: 1975, Fischer refused to defend his WC title against Karpov due to his dispute over the match format. 1978, Karpov played his first WC match, beating Korchnoi. 2023

International Chess Federation on X: The famous Soviet, and then Swiss grandmaster Viktor Korchnoi was born #onthisday in 1931. A 10-time World Championship Candidate, he contested a Candidates final and two matches

Match / Karpov-korchnoi (campeonato Mundial de Ajedrez 1978)

Chess, Cheating and Yoghurt

Anatoly Karpov with his wife - Vintage Photograph