Korchnoi And The Ghost

If I'm not mistaken, didn't Victor Korchnoi have a game with the ghost of a chess player? 🙂 I think it was the ghost of Maroczy. Does anyone know the story?

Originally posted by paulbuchmanfromfics
If I'm not mistaken, didn't Victor Korchnoi have a game with the ghost of a chess player? 🙂 I think it was the ghost of Maroczy. Does anyone know the story?

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1486372

Haha. I am at a loss but at his age I wouldn't be surprised if he talked to ghosts. 😛

It's a shame Maroczy went to all the trouble of playing dead and didn't even win. 🙂

It reminds me of a chess cartoon I saw. There is a man playing his dog at chess. The spectators look amazed. The man says " What? I beat him most of the time." 🙂

He had a good milk commercial.

I thought the comment about Maroczy never playing that line of the French while he was alive pretty much disproves it and why should this game have taken 7 years to play?

Originally posted by Uries
I thought the comment about Maroczy never playing that line of the French while he was alive pretty much disproves it and why should this game have taken 7 years to play?

Maybe Emanuel Lasker and Abe Lincoln were coaching Maroczy. Perhaps, Lasker taught it to him. 🙂
I imagine it took 7 years for Korchnoi to pay the guy enough money to "summon" all the moves. 🙂
Just a guess. 🙂