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World Chess Championship 1978
The 1978 World Chess Championship was played between Anatoly Karpov and Viktor Korchnoi in Baguio, Philippines, from July 18 to October 18, 1978.
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Karpov won, thereby retaining the title.
The match had many bizarre incidents. Karpov's team included noted Soviet psychologist and hypnotherapistVladimir Petrovich Zukhar [ru], while Korchnoi enlisted the help of two American Ananda Marga yoga specialists who had recently been convicted of attempted murder and released on bail.[1][2] There was more controversy off the board, with histrionics ranging from X-raying of chairs, protests about the flags used on the board and Korchnoi's complaints that Zukhar, sitting in the front row, attempted to hypnotise him.[3] When Karpov's team sent him a blueberryyogurt during a game without any request for one by Karpov, the Korchnoi team protested, claiming it could be some kind of code.
They later said this was intended a