Word: korchnoi
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...chess tournament in Amsterdam was over, and Russian Grandmaster Victor Korchnoi, 45, ranked second only to World Champion Anatoli Karpov, had finished in a tie for first place. But Korchnoi had a private end game to complete: he defected and sought asylum. Tass, the Soviet news agency, quickly counterattacked, accusing Korchnoi of being "obsessed with vanity." In fact, Korchnoi has been in dutch with Soviet chess officials more or less constantly since 1974, when he lost in a semifinal world championship match to Karpov and then complained publicly that his fellow grandmaster had a "poor chess arsenal." But Korchnoi...
...title; indeed, in the past quartercentury (the championship is held every three years) no Western player has even advanced to the finals. To gain his showdown with Spassky, Fischer must first meet the winner of a semifinal match now being played in Moscow between Tigran Petrosian and Victor Korchnoi...