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Annotated Miniature 3: Janis Klovans - Mikhail Tal (0-1)

This game features one of the greatest Chess tacticians of all time, Mikhail Tal. He plays the Rubinstein Variation of the French Defense. Black takes over the initiative right from the start. White pays for his passive and inaccurate play in 18 moves.

I have annotated the game, move by move. Please free to comment or share your ideas.

Comments


  • 24 months ago

    ethanara

    With the "frech defense" do you mean tal is fresh or do you mean French ;) ?

  • 4 years ago

    chessiq

    @ miguelcol1978, Your variation is pretty good and appears (to me) to give White some counterplay.

    @ gmaellex, you asked for "similarly annotated games"... well, if you are looking for games annotated move by move, i think you should be able to find some at my blog both here at chess.com and at chessthinking.com

  • 4 years ago

    miguelcol1978

    I would like to know:

    what if

    15. Nxe5, Qxe5. 16. Ra2, Qxe4. 17 Re2, Bh3+. 18 Kg1

    Would white have any counter play?

  • 4 years ago

    gmaellex

    does anyone know where one can find similarly annotated games?

  • 4 years ago

    bluebert

    wow.... 

    good game for the black but the white play bad.....

    any way that's life..

  • 4 years ago

    bluebert

    wow
  • 4 years ago

    chessiq

    Ozzes306 , I completely understand what you mean. Actually, I had thought about it, but chose an easier/quicker way out (for me). It may be easier or quicker to do the alternate lines, but I just haven't invested the time to learn to do it. I will some day!

  • 4 years ago

    Ozzes306

    Good job, I would recommend putting some alternate lines to explain the alternate moves you wrote.

  • 4 years ago

    chessiq

    by Crux "Nice game, Tal was brilliant....but "Black Resigns"? ;) "

                       Thanks for catching my error. I have fixed it; now says "White Resigns" - Danke!

  • 4 years ago

    Blueoct

    Nice game, but white played very very bad

  • 4 years ago

    lighthouse

    hail to the king..........,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

  • 4 years ago

    edgy_rhinx

    Judging by the moves, Janis is probably a 1200 rated player.

  • 4 years ago

    amitprabhale

    nice one

  • 4 years ago

    _simus_

    Tal is brilliant and all, but I feel like it was more of white's messing up than anything else.

  • 4 years ago

    king_43

    nice game

  • 4 years ago

    chessiq

    kco , Thanks! Glad you liked it.

  • 4 years ago

    kco

    nice game you got there and good annotated, good work look forward to read the others.

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