Gennadi Sosonko Trainer
This was a double round event. Vaganian and Beliavsky only played a single part in this 'Scheveningen System'tournament. Korchnoi, writing about the Grandmasters v. Young Masters event at Sochi Oct. 13 - Nov. 2 which was part of an officially inspired and desperately needed programme to develop juniors into grandmasters, said It was interesting to play to find out just how well these young masters played. But competitively I was not at my best. Probably Korchnoi was not deeply interested and...
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49 xf2 d2 50 fie2 amp h3 51 Bb3 d4 52 e1 1 53 4tf1 g5 54 Bd3 Axf1 55 Axf1 3 56 e2 d6 57 e3 f6 58 f2 e5 59 g3 f6 60 g2 1 2 1 2 Read Korchnoi's comments on this game in Chess is My Life. At least he was USSR Master of Sport No. 3901. 1 d4 f6 2 c4 e6 3 g3 d5 4 lg2 dc 5 a4 bd7 6 xc4 b6 i 7 d3 c5 8 amp f3 cd 9 amp xd4 b4 10 ld2 amp xd2 11 amp xd2 0-0 A e5 12f4 fd5 13 amp 2f3 Idl 14 0-0 Bc8 15 a3 e7 16 e4 f6 17 b4 Bfd8 18e5 fd5 19 g5 g6 20 e4 4k4 21 c5 b6 22 b7 Bf8 23 Bfc1 b5 24 amp c5 Bfd8 24 b6 25...
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Matches between the rival cities Moscow and Leningrad St.Petersburg Petrograd have taken place at sporadic intervals in the past, viz. 1911 StPetersburg won 6-3 1912 St. Petersburg won 51 2-41 2 1922 Moscow beat Petrograd 14-8 1926 Moscow won 231 2-201 2 1927 Leningrad won 311 2-251 2 1930 Moscow won 18-12 1937 Leningrad won 25-21 1941 telephone Leningrad won 7-3. After a break of 17 years the fixture was revived in December 1958. After two rounds on 40 boards honours were shared 40-40. On...
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Somehow Tal succeeded in winning the flu-plagued 25th Championship final tournament held in his home town Riga in January February 1958 from what seemed at one stage an unlikely score. Korchnoi, after a first round loss to Boleslavsky was always struggling around the 50 mark, but he beat the winner after a momentous tussle in round 9. Here is his fighting draw as Black with Spassky in round 17 -1 e4 e6 2 d4 d5 3 4k3 lb4 4 e5 4k7 5 4 4tf5 6 4tf3 c6 7 lb5 161 8 lg5 h5 9 xf5 9 h3f6 9 ef 10 1x68...