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Life After Death Proved by Chess Match?

The most unusual chess match ever played between a deceased Grandmaster and the living №2-ranked player in the world provides solid evidence that people survive death to live on in the Afterlife

9 min readDec 16, 2024

One of the most rigorous proofs that people survive death and live on in an Afterlife is provided by a chess match played at the game’s highest levels. Two world-ranked Chess Grandmasters played the single game over seven years and eight months — the longest-ever championship-level chess match.

One player was alive. His opponent was dead.

The Living Player: Victor Korchnoi

Victor Korchnoi. Public Domain photo.

A Russian born in the Soviet Union in 1931, he later defected and became a citizen of Switzerland. One of the greatest players of all time, Korchnoi never won a World Championship, although he did win the Senior World Chess Championship. He was rated the №2 player in the world in the 1980s. Korchnoi died in 2016.

The Deceased Player: Géza Maróczy

Ken Korczak
Ken Korczak

Written by Ken Korczak

Newspaper journalist by trade, then went freelance and have been writing stuff for cold hard cash for 40 years.

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