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Tigran Petrosian's brilliant game with Viktor Korchnoi en-route to the 1963 World Chess championship

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[Event "Curacao Candidates"] [Site "Willemstad CUW"] [Date "1962.06.16"] [EventDate "1962.05.02"] [Round "23"] [Result "1-0"] [White "Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian"] [Black "Viktor Korchnoi"] [... (Show Full Description)
[Event "Curacao Candidates"] [Site "Willemstad CUW"] [Date "1962.06.16"] [EventDate "1962.05.02"] [Round "23"] [Result "1-0"] [White "Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian"] [Black "Viktor Korchnoi"] [ECO "A31"] [WhiteElo "?"] [BlackElo "?"] [PlyCount "41"] 1. c4 c5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 g6 5. Nc3 d5 6. Bg5 dxc4 7. e3 Qa5 8. Bxf6 exf6 9. Bxc4 Bb4 10. Rc1 a6 11. O-O Nd7 12. a3 Be7 13. b4 Qe5 14. f4 Qb8 15. Bxf7+ Kxf7 16. Qb3+ Ke8 17. Nd5 Bd6 18. Ne6 b5 19. Ndc7+ Ke7 20. Nd4 Kf8 21. Nxa8 1-0 â–ºPlaylists: http://www.chessworld.net/chessclubs/playlistvideosstructure.asp â–ºKingscrusher's Greatest Hit Videos! : http://tinyurl.com/6vvx6qe â–ºFREE online chess at http://www.chessworld.net/chessclubs/asplogin.asp?from=1053 or realtime at http://www.chessclub.com/from/kingscrusher â–ºSubscribe for my regular chess videos: http://goo.gl/zpktUK â–ºSupport the channel by donating via PayPal: http://goo.gl/7HJcDq Thumbnail Petrosian By uploader Koperczak (talk) 08:49, 3 April 2009 (UTC), photographer unknown (scanned from "Szukam raju" Iskry, Warsaw 1975) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Korchnoi By Anefo / Croes, R.C. [CC BY-SA 3.0 nl (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/nl/deed.en)], via Wikimedia Commons

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