Closing Gambit: 1978 Korchnoi versus Karpov and the Kremlin

8.5 2018 85 min
Documentary

The story of the 1978 World Chess Championship between the Soviet Communist Party's protege, Anatoly Karpov and the traitor and Soviet defector, Viktor Korchnoi. One of those instances in life where truth is stranger th…

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Director
Alan Byron
Writer
Alan Byron

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Anatoli Karpov self
Viktor Korchnoi self
Garry Kasparov self
Viswanathan Anand self

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