Closing Gambit: 1978 Korchnoi versus Karpov and the Kremlin

2018

85 min

8.7

Ends at

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 than fiction.

Budget

$0

Genre

Documentary

Director

Alan Byron

Country

United Kingdom

Cast & Crew

Anatoli Karpov

Viktor Korchnoi

Garry Kasparov

Viswanathan Anand

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Closing Gambit: 1978 Korchnoi versus Karpov and the Kremlin

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 than fiction.

  • Anatoli Karpov

  • Viktor Korchnoi

  • Garry Kasparov

  • Viswanathan Anand

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