Exactly 40 years ago the first of two World Championship matches between Anatoly Karpov and Viktor Korchnoi was in progress in Baguio City, on Luzon Island in The Phillipines. Korchnoi and Karpov had contested the Candidates’ Final match in Moscow four years previously.  In a 24-game match, Karpov had won by the narrowest of margins,…

A short blog post featuring a Bronstein’s translated annotations to his game v. Korchnoi from the tournament at Hastings, 1976, and the background to this encounter. The traditional Hastings tournament at the end of 1975 took place at the town’s White Rock Pavilion, from 29th December 1975 until the 15th January 1976. It was normal…

Lev Psakhis’s report on the tournament at Troon (Scotland) in 1984, translated from ’64’, and including detailed annotations to his dramatic final-round game v. Craig Pritchett (available to download in .PDF format). At the Press Centre for the World Chess Championship in Moscow, September 1984. Left to right: Semyon Palatnik, Lev Psakhis, Sergei Dolmatov, Mark…