Monday, June 6, 2016

Soviet defector Korchnoi, challenger for world chess title, dies at 85

(Reuters) - Chess grandmaster Viktor Korchnoi, who defected from the Soviet Union in 1976 and then came within one game of beating arch-rival Anatoly Karpov for the world championship, has died at the age of 85, the Russian Chess Federation said on Monday.

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