#292 | Chess & The Cold War
English Learning for Curious Minds
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Korchnoy's Defection at the Manilla World Championship in 1978
Karpov was sent to manila with an enterage of 12 k g b personnel. Korchnoy's team brought out its own group of para psychologists, in addition to two cult leaders from a sect called ananda marga. The second game already gave indications that this would be no ordinary match. Both sides resorted to outlandish measures, ridiculous and unbelievable lengths to give their players an advantage. By the eighth game, the jury decided to move zukar to a row further back to prevent him disrupting the player's concentration. In perhaps the strangest tactic ever used in the game, the k g b used a para psychologist named zokar to d stabilize korchnoy mentally
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