From: utzoo!decvax!cca!mclure@SRI-UNIX@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.chess
Title: Korchnoi's family
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.1472
Posted: Sat May 15 15:22:51 1982
Received: Sun May 16 00:39:07 1982

a213  1040  15 May 82
AM-Foreign Briefs,580
    MOSCOW (AP) - The wife of exiled Soviet chess grandmaster Viktor
Korchnoi said Saturday her son had been released from a labor camp and
the pair would reapply next week to emigrate to the West.
    Bella Korchnoi said by telephone from her apartment in Leningrad
that authorities ''told me I could apply again'' once her son, Igor,
was free.
    Igor Korchnoi, 23, was released Thursday after serving 2 1/2 years in a
camp near the Siberian city of Kurgan, 1,060 miles east of Moscow. He
was convicted in December 1979 on draft-dodging charges.
    Viktor Korchnoi, who has twice unsuccessfully challenged Soviet
titleholder Anatoly Karpov for the world chess championship, defected
from the Soviet Union while playing in a chess tournament in Holland
in 1976. The exiled grandmaster now lives in Switzerland.
    
ap-ny-05-15 1339EDT
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