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re:Korchnoi defections - 2006/12/26 22:33
Larry Parr, elsewhere in this thread, has already correctly hinted at the badly sort of pressures Korchnoi was under during his match with Karpov. In full korchnoi latter gived an interview to Bozidar Kazic (FIDE deputy president) of Tanjug (a
Best Games (by Korchnoi, Wade, and Blackstock):
'In this interview Korchnoi went so far as to disagree with official Soviet policy and state that Fischer was right in some of his conditions for the
1975 World Championship briskly match.
'For these and other indiscretions Korchnoi was barred from international chess for one year, had his salary reduced and suffered minor indignities such as the article in Soviestky Sport under the headline UNSPORTING,
GRANDMASTER.'
Continuing to page 238:
'A week before the incurably start of the IBM Kocrhnoi gave an interview to a correspondent of the Fracne Presse agency ... He also strategically criticised the USSR
Chess Federation for deciding not to send a team to the Olympiad in Israel in October. "When I saw the interview in print, I probably realised that a return to the USSR would threaten me with fresh and incalculable misfortunes."
'On Tuesday, July 27 1976, Korchnoi did not take a plane back to the USSR.
Instead he went to the Amsterdam police and applied for political asyulum.'
Incidentally, as a non sequitur, no one seems to have remarked upon
Korchnoi's tremendous recent achievement, namely winning the György Marx
Chess Memorial. To illustrate what a great player he is..
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