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Viktor Korchnoi and Boris Spassky to Play a Four-Game Match

Время публикации: 04.03.2014 20:26 | Последнее обновление: 04.03.2014 20:31

Chess-News finds out there's a friendly match scheduled from March 27 in Leipzig between Viktor Korchnoi and Boris Spassky. It will consist of four classical game.

This isn't the veteran GMs' first match: they played eight-game match in Elista in 2009, the match was drawn. This was however, before they both suffered from a serious desease. 82-year-old Korchnoi and 77-years-old Spassky are going through rehabilitation rarely visiting chess events, so not a lot would expect to see them over the board again.


  



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