Aired Tuesday June 15, 12:15am - 1:25amon PBS

Closing Gambit: 1978 Korchnoi vs Karpov and the Kremlin (2018)

Biography / Documentary

Current World Chess Champion and Soviet Communist Party protege Anatoly Karpov faces Viktor Korchnoi, a harsh critic of the Soviet regime, who claimed political asylum in Holland in 1976, for the crown at the 1978 World Chess Championship.

Country: United Kingdom

Cast and crew

Alan ByronDirector
Garry Kasparov
Anatoli Karpov
Viktor Korchnoi
Viswanathan Anand
Yasser Seirawan
Michael Stean
Jan Timman
Emil Sutovsky
Veselin Topalov
Boris Gelfand
Yannick Pelletier
Raymond Keene

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