Author: stuart taylor
Date: 12:36:39 01/03/04
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On January 03, 2004 at 09:04:56, Sally Weltrop wrote: >On January 03, 2004 at 03:44:35, Mike Byrne wrote: > >>After nearly 40+ years of being one of top 100 chess players, 72 years young , >>Viktor Korchnoi (b 1931), has dropped out of the top 100 rating list. A record >>that will be tough to match by anyone. GM Korchnoi is widely considered one of >>the strongest players ever not to win a World Championship title. > >Definitely a true statement. > > He battled >>Anatoly Karpov for the World title in match play twice (1975 and 1981). In >>addition, he had lost to Karpov in 1974 in the Candidates tournament. Karpov >>subsequently gained the tile by default when the match with Fischer could not be >>organized. Both in 1974 and 1978, Kortchnoi lost to Karpov by one game. > >Karpov knew he was a threat too and exerted "Political Pressure" on him and ESP >Korchnoi's family while the match was going on. Korchnoi was definitely the stronger player, by far. I thinking he was even winning a last game (but blundered tragically) which would have given him the title, despite all the persecution and torture that was being administered to him at the time. S.Taylor >> >>GM Karpov (b 1951) , 20 years younger than Kortchoi, is now the senior player on >>the top 100 list. He is currently ranked 21st in the world with a rating of >>2682. >> >> >>http://www.fide.com/ratings/download/top100s.txt >> >>http://www.fide.com/ratings/card.phtml?event=1300016
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