Viktor Korchnoi

Viktor Korchnoi
Viktor Lvovich Korchnoiwas a Soviet-born Swiss chess grandmaster and writer. He is considered one of the strongest players never to have become World Chess Champion...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionCelebrity
Date of Birth23 March 1931
CountryRussian Federation
agonizing champion dead hard heading longer realized start suddenly twice
At one point, after having already become a Grandmaster and champion of the USSR,I suddenly realized that I am heading for a dead end... I had to start everything over. But how hard and agonizing it is when you're no longer 16, but twice that age!
want common karpov
[Harry] Kasparov and [Anatoly] Karpov have something in common. They both want to become deputies of the Russian State Duma.
reflection simple glasses
The aim was simple: to deprive Karpov of his favourite occupation - standing at the board, staring straight at his opponent. While I was wearing these glasses, all he could admire was his own reflection.
morning mistake player
It is unpleasant for the players, when the organizers arrange for play to take place in the morning. The games from such last rounds, in view of the large number of mistakes, are not fit for publication!
player thinking games
Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed.
player people world
Chess players, people who travel all over the world, should be trusted or else not sent anywhere at all. Why are these four people (Antoshion and three other official 'minders') sent along to supervise us? With their meagre experience, all that thay did was interfere, more than ever before. And when they were needed, they weren't to be found ...
study
I don't study; I create.
mistake memorable games
As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains, because you have suffered and worried over each mistake at the board.
thinking winning chess
Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.
risk psychology use
Sometimes I even say that I have surpassed Lasker in using psychology. How? Well, sometimes I use psychology with a portion of risk. That is something else, something that Lasker wouldn't allow.
moving games looks
All obvious moves look dubious in analysis after the game.
elements chess flaws
The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.
chess
Chess you don't learn, chess you understand.
skeletons coconuts slim
Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to get out, appeased but fat.