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Championship 1981 was a match contested from 1 October to 19 November between the defending World Champion, Karpov and the challenger, Korchnoi. The first player to gain 6 wins would be awarded the title of World Chess Champion. Like the Candidates final, the match was held in
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There were two Elo rating lists published by FIDE covering the 1981 player ratings; these lists were published in
January and July. Anatoly Karpov was the highest-rated player in both lists, though his rating in the July list was only five points higher than Korchnoi's.
443:(Soviet Union) to a match for the title of World Chess Champion. The finalists were Viktor Korchnoi (Switzerland) and Robert Hübner (West Germany), who had qualified for the final through an 8-player match knockout tournament. The other players of the tournament were
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Karpov, over 18 games, gained the required 6 wins to retain his title. Karpov won 6 games, lost 2 games and drew 10 games. Due to the decisiveness of the match, it was dubbed "the
Massacre in Merano".
650:(United States). Karpov and Korchnoi had both played only one World Chess Championship match prior to 1981, a very close match against one another in 1978 which was won by Karpov (+6 -5 =21).
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The major chess events of 1981 were the final match of the
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16:Overview of the events of 1981 in chess
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1234:GM Robert Huebner (2640)
1215:GM Viktor Korchnoi (2695)
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1172:GM Boris Spassky (2635)
1153:GM Robert Huebner (2635)
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946:The 21st and final
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1726:Europe
1709:Africa
1604:Knight
1599:Bishop
1289:
1276:France
1270:
1251:
1232:
1213:
1194:
1176:France
1170:
1151:
1132:
1113:
1091:
998:Frunze
826:
821:
739:
732:
721:Total
584:
579:
526:
519:
508:Total
433:Merano
363:Tennis
353:Squash
306:Skiing
2941:WCSCC
2886:Youth
2876:Blitz
2871:Rapid
2861:Women
2824:Women
2776:Study
2631:Other
2164:X-ray
2087:Decoy
2072:Block
2027:Tempo
1990:Pawns
1908:Terms
1827:Check
1809:Rules
1743:India
1736:Spain
1721:China
1614:Fairy
1589:Queen
1520:norms
1411:Chess
646:from
194:Darts
142:Chess
2979:film
2936:WCCC
2931:TCEC
2921:CSVN
2866:Team
2836:List
2112:Fork
2037:Trap
1837:Draw
1609:Pawn
1594:Rook
1584:King
1532:List
1501:list
1476:FIDE
1282:4=:
1263:4=:
1244:4=:
1163:4=:
1144:4=:
1125:2=:
1106:2=:
1055:The
1040:The
1012:The
989:and
931:The
904:The
718:Wins
437:FIDE
409:and
390:and
219:Golf
172:1981
157:Sumo
68:1984
63:1983
58:1982
52:1981
46:1980
41:1979
36:1978
2916:CCC
2132:Pin
1936:PGN
624:3½
3172::
1094:GM
893:7
809:11
715:18
712:17
709:16
706:15
703:14
700:13
697:12
694:11
691:10
567:4½
505:10
451:,
447:,
417:.
2471:/
1403:e
1396:t
1389:v
1344:.
1297:)
1293:(
1278:)
1274:(
1259:)
1255:(
1240:)
1236:(
1221:)
1217:(
1202:)
1198:(
1178:)
1174:(
1159:)
1155:(
1140:)
1136:(
1121:)
1117:(
1102:)
1098:(
890:2
887:0
884:=
881:=
878:=
875:0
872:1
869:=
866:=
863:=
860:0
857:=
854:=
851:1
848:=
845:0
842:=
839:0
836:0
832:)
828:(
804:6
800:1
797:=
794:=
791:=
788:1
785:0
782:=
779:=
776:=
773:1
770:=
767:=
764:0
761:=
758:1
755:=
752:1
749:1
745:)
741:(
688:9
685:8
682:7
679:6
676:5
673:4
670:3
667:2
664:1
621:*
618:*
615:0
612:0
609:½
606:½
603:1
600:½
597:0
594:1
590:)
586:(
563:*
560:*
557:1
554:1
551:½
548:½
545:0
542:½
539:1
536:0
532:)
528:(
502:9
499:8
496:7
493:6
490:5
487:4
484:3
481:2
478:1
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