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Mikhail Tal's first report in 64 about the "grandmasters versus masters" tournament in Sochi 1970.
Recently, I received a valuable gift from chess fans of Ryazan: a file of the 64 newspaper published in 1935-37. Reading through the "grandmother" ... | Read More
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For something more positive - a game more than half a century old, by 17 years-old Tal. He annotated it for the Riga chess bulletin.
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With annotations by Alexei Shirov.
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Salo (Salomon Mikhailovich) Flohr was born on 21st November 1908 in Horodenka, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Ukraine). He first gained chess prominence while playing in the Prague chess cafes, and in 1930s quickly became Czechoslovakia's leading pl... | Read More
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5. Believe until the end
In the winter of 1979, the world champion Anatoly Karpov and the author were invited to a tournament in Canada called The Tournament of Stars. Long before its beginning, it excited the chess world: the organizers prom... | Read More
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By Dmitry Komarov. Source in Russian: http://facts.kiev.ua/archive/2009-11-20/101796/index.html
"It's hard to remain silent when my husband's biography gets perverted so often". Angelina Tal is indignant. "They even said that Misha's own fathe... | Read More
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4. Match of the Century
The history of Soviet chess remembers two outstanding team matches. One took place in autumn 1945, the other a quarter of century later, in 1970. These are the dates of the famous USSR – USA radio match and the mat... | Read More
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3. Stellar hour
A chess player’s life is like running up the stairs. He’s constantly going up the qualification steps. He wins a Zonal tournament, and then there’s Interzonal. Then you make the top three and become a Candidate. And then... | Read More
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I came across a funny article on astrology and chess. It deals with the Zodiac signs of famous players. As a preview, I'll post twelve "Zodiacal Olympic" teams the author lined up. It was written several years ago, possible in 2004-2005.
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2. Tournaments, meetings, memories…
In 1980, at the Tilburg tournament, all players received a questionnaire, and one of the questions was, “What competition do you remember the most?” Not all grandmasters answered immediately – the... | Read More