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Kortschnoi was one of the best players in chess history, and he was feared, respected and admired for his fighting spirit and pugnacious nature, but in the game against Caruana he was nevertheless a clear underdog. After all, Caruana was already one of the world s best players at the time, and had almost 200 Elo points more than Kortschnoi. Moreover, he had won all three previous encounters between the two.
Kortschnoi at the Hoogovens Tournament 1985 | Photo: Rob Croes / Anefo
The last time the two had played each other was at the Chess Olympiad in Dresden in 2008 in the match between Switzerland and Italy, and in that game Kortschnoi had suffered a crushing defeat with Black.
The Queen s Gambit has inspired a surge of interest in
chess around the globe and draws parallels to real life.
The final episode of the hit series shows fictional chess prodigy Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy) facing off against her Soviet rival in 1968.
The scene echoes US chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer s 1972 Match of the Century against the Soviet Union s Boris Spassky.
Both matches highlight
Cold War tensions between the US and Soviet Union.
In the final episode of The Queen s Gambit, chess prodigy Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy) realizes her dream of traveling to Moscow to play Soviet rival Vasily Borgov (Marcin Dorociński). The year is 1968.
It seems incomprehensible that it took nearly 40 years to bring such an amazing story to life onscreen, and in fact, there have been several attempts to do so over the years: first, with a script by author, journalist, and screenwriter Jesse Kornbluth, and later, with Heath Ledger (who was battling addiction and was a chess whiz himself) preparing to begin production as director and star right before his untimely death in 2008.
It wasn t until 2019, more than three decades after the novel was published, that Netflix finally saved the adaptation from development hell, with Scott Frank writing, directing, and executive producing. Allan Scott, who has owned the film rights to
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