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Viktor Korchnoi
  • Birth Name:
    Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi
  • Date of Birth:
    March 23, 1931
  • Zodiac Sign:
    Aries
  • Place of Birth:
    Leningrad, USSR
  • Sex:
    Male
  • Nationality:
    Russian
  • Education:
    Leningrad State University

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    Viktor Korchnoi

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    Viktor Korchnoi
    • In September 2006, won the 16th World Senior Chess Championship, held in Arvier (Valle d’Aosta, Italy), with a 9–2 score.
    • Won at Krakow 1959 with 8.5/11, shared 1st–2nd places with Samuel Reshevsky at Buenos Aires 1960 with 13/19, won at Córdoba, Argentina 1960 with 6/7.
    • Won 21 medals for the USSR.
    • Was promoted to Grandmaster in 1956.
    • Won the 1955 Leningrad Championship with a massive score of 17/19, and shared 1st-2nd places at Hastings 1955–56 on 7/9.
    • In 1951, earned the Soviet Master title, following his second place in the 1950 Leningrad Championship, with 9/13.
    • In 1947, won the Junior Championship of the USSR, with 11.5/15 at Leningrad, and tied for that title again in 1948 with 5/7 at Tallinn.
    • In 1943, joined the chess club of the Leningrad Pioneer Palace, and was trained by Abram Model, Andrei Batuyev, and Vladimir Zak.
    • In September 2006, won the World Senior Chess Championship.
    • Is a four-time USSR chess champion (1960, 1962, 1964–65, 1970), a five-time European champion, and a six-time member of Soviet teams that won the Chess Olympiad.

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