Anatoly Karpov and Victor Lvovich Korchnoy: history of scandalous opposition of the USSR and the West on a chessboard

Already on December 30, 2021 in the Russian film distribution there is the movie "World champion" devoted to drama and legendary 110-day chess duel for a rank of the world champion between the 27-year-old champion by Anatoly Karpov and the 47-year-old applicant by Victor Lvovich Korchnoy, emigrated of the USSR before this duel. The well-known chess players played Konstantin Khabensky (Victor Lvovich Korchnoy) and Yankovsky Yvan (Anatoly Karpov). Director and scriptwriter Aleksey Leonidovich Sidorov. Duel of the champion and the applicant Victor Lvovich Korchnoy in Bagio in 1978 is considered Karpova one of the most scandalous in the history of chess. Therefore specially we tell, in what an essence...