Answers: Korchnoi-Karpov 1978

Now that we have examined all the individual trees in this game between Viktor Kortschnoj and Anatoly Karpov from 1978, what is our view of the forest? Move after move, Kortschnoj made optimal choices, never lessening the tension. Most decisive endings are won after a gross blunder, but it took 46 years to find where Black finally stumbled. As GM Alex Fishbein noted, Kortschnoj “made many nonstandard decisions, made no mistakes and played brilliantly – one of the best endings ever played.”