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Born 17 August 1911 51 years old |
Born 17 June 1929 33 years old | |||||
Winner of the 1961 World Chess Championship | Winner of the 1962 Candidates Tournament | |||||
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At the World Chess Championship 1963, Tigran Petrosian narrowly qualified to challenge Mikhail Botvinnik for the World Chess Championship, and then won the match to become the ninth World Chess Champion. The cycle is particularly remembered for the controversy surrounding the Candidates' Tournament at Curaçao in 1962, which resulted in FIDE changing the format of the Candidates Tournament to a series of knockout matches.
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