Having An excellent World Cup 2022 Winner Is not Sufficient.
Tigran Petrosian received the championship with 13½/19, and the remaining qualifiers were Victor Korchnoi with thirteen and Efim Geller and Leonid Stein with 12. Notable players who failed to qualify from this zone were former world champion Vasily Smyslov at 11, former world champion challenger David Bronstein at 9, and former Candidates Boris Spassky at…