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   1980  Candidates Matches




Robert Hübner    Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi

               Site: Italy  Merano
               Event Date: 1980

               FINAL MATCH
N° FLAGS  NAME 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 TOTAL 
01 Germany  Germany  GM Robert Hübner 1 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 0 * * 3.5/8 
02 Switzerland  Russia  GM Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi 0 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 1 * * 4.5/8 


Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi    Lev Polugaevsky

               Site: Argentina  Buenos Aires
               Event Date: 1980

               SEMIFINAL MATCH 1
N° FLAGS  NAME 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 TOTAL 
01 Switzerland  Russia  GM Viktor Korchnoi ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 7.5/14 
02 Soviet Union  Belarus  GM Lev Polugaevsky ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 6.5/14 

 
Robert Hübner    Lajos Portisch
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               Site: Italy  Abano Terme
               Event Date: 1980

               SEMIFINAL MATCH 2
N° FLAGS  NAME 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 TOTAL 
01 Germany  Germany  GM Robert Hübner ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 6.5/11 
02 Hungary  Hungary  GM Lajos Portisch ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 4.5/11 





Robert Hübner    András Adorján

               Site: Germany  Bad Lauterberg
               Event Date: 1980

               QUARTERFINAL MATCH 1
N° FLAGS  NAME 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 TOTAL 
01 Germany  Germany  GM Robert Hübner ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 5.5/10 
02 Hungary  Hungary  GM András Adorján ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 4.5/10 

 
Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi    Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian

               Site: Velden
               Event Date: 1980

               QUARTERFINAL MATCH 2
N° FLAGS  NAME 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 TOTAL 
01 Switzerland  Russia  GM Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 5.5/9 
02 Soviet Union  Armenia  GM Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 3.5/9 

 
Boris Vasilievich Spassky    Lajos Portisch

               Site: Mexico  Mexico City
               Event Date: 1980

               QUORTERFINAL MATCH 3
N° FLAGS  NAME 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 TOTAL 
01 France  Russia  GM Boris Spassky 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 7.0/14 
02 Hungary  Hungary  GM Lajos Portisch 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 7.0/14 

 
Lev Polugaevsky    Mikhail Nekhemievich Tal

               Site: Kazakhstan  Alma Ata
               Event Date: 1980

               QUARTERFINAL MATCH 4
N° FLAGS  NAME 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 TOTAL 
01 Soviet Union  Belarus  GM Lev Abramovich Polugaevsky 1 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 5.5/8 
02 Soviet Union  Latvia  GM Mikhail Nekhemievich Tal 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 2.5/8 


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World Chess Championship 1981
The 1981 World Chess Championship was played between Anatoly Karpov and Viktor Korchnoi in Meran, Italy from October 1 to November 19, 1981.
Karpov won.

Interzonals

Two Interzonal tournaments were held, one in Riga and the other in Rio de Janeiro. The Riga interzonal was won in dominant fashion by Tal while the one in Rio saw Portisch, Petrosian and Huebner sharing the first place between them.

Candidates matches



Results

The first player to win 6 games would be Champion.



Karpov won.

 
     World Chess Championship 1981. (28 September 2011 at 16:40). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 17 November 2011, at 09.00, from
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