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The Man Whom Mikhail Tal never defeated:- Leonid Stein

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This is a collection of games played between Mikhail Tal who is the magician from Riga and Leonid Stein who was a Soviet chess grandmaster. Mikhail Tal had played with Stein 18 times but never managed to defeat him 

Yes, this is true the magician from Riga "Tal" never managed to defeat Leonid Stein. There were 18 games played between them in which there were 15 draws and the rest of the 3 games were won by Leonid Stein.

So I here present The 3 Magical Games where Soviet Chess grandmaster "Leonid Stein" Defeated Mikhail Tal in his chess career.

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Game 1:-

Game 1 is from the event in Kislovodsk, USSR 1966 Where Mikhail Tal had black pieces while Leonid Stein Had white pieces 

The list of moves made in game 1 is given below:-

[Event "Kislovodsk"]
[Site "Kislovodsk URS"]
[Date "1966.08.01"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "7"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Leonid Stein"]
[Black "Mikhail Tal"]
[ECO "E56"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "107"]

1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e6 3.d4 Bb4 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3 d5 6.Nf3 c5 7.O-O
Nc6 8.a3 Ba5 9.cxd5 exd5 10.dxc5 Bxc3 11.bxc3 Bg4 12.Be2 Qe7
13.Rb1 Ne4 14.Qc2 Rac8 15.Bb2 Na5 16.Bd3 Rxc5 17.Nd4 Nf6 18.a4
Nc4 19.Bc1 Re8 20.Rb5 b6 21.Rxc5 Qxc5 22.Nb5 Ra8 23.Qb3 Ne4
24.Re1 a6 25.Nd4 Ne5 26.Bc2 Qxc3 27.Qxc3 Nxc3 28.Bb2 Rc8 29.f4
Ng6 30.Bxc3 Rxc3 31.Rb1 Bc8 32.Kf2 Rc4 33.Rxb6 Ne7 34.Rb8 g6
35.Bd3 Rc7 36.Bxa6 Kg7 37.Bd3 Bd7 38.a5 Rc3 39.a6 Nc6 40.Rb3
Rxb3 41.Nxb3 Na7 42.Ke2 Kf6 43.Kd2 Ke7 44.Na5 Kd6 45.Kc3 f6
46.Kb4 Be8 47.g3 Bd7 48.h4 Be8 49.Nb3 Nc6+ 50.Kc3 Na7 51.Nd4
Ba4 52.Kb4 Bd7 53.Be2 h6 54.Bb5 1-0 

Game 2:-

Game 2 is from the leningrad USSR championship 1971 where Mikhail Tal had black pieces while Leonid stein had white pieces 
The list of moves made in game 2 is given below:-
[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Leningrad URS"]
[Date "1971.10.14"]
[EventDate "1971.09.15"]
[Round "20"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Leonid Stein"]
[Black "Mikhail Tal"]
[ECO "A14"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "65"]

1.c4 Nf6 2.g3 e6 3.Bg2 d5 4.Nf3 Be7 5.O-O O-O 6.d4 c6 7.Qc2 b6
8.Rd1 Bb7 9.Nc3 Nbd7 10.b3 Rc8 11.e4 c5 12.exd5 exd5 13.dxc5
dxc4 14.b4 bxc5 15.b5 Qb6 16.Bf4 Rfd8 17.a4 Qa5 18.Nd2 Bxg2
19.Nxc4 Qb4 20.Na2 Be4 21.Nxb4 Bxc2 22.Nxc2 Nb6 23.Rxd8+ Bxd8
24.N2e3 Nxc4 25.Nxc4 Nd5 26.Rd1 Nb6 27.Nd6 Ra8 28.a5 Na4
29.Nc4 Nc3 30.Re1 Bxa5 31.Nxa5 Nxb5 32.Re5 Nd4 33.Rxc5 1-0 

Game 3:-

Game 3 is from URS-chT cup 3rd Final,Moscow 1961 Where Mikhail Tal had black pieces and Leonid Stein Had white pieces
The list of moves made in game 3 is given below:-

[Event "URS-chT Cup 03rd Final"]
[White "Stein, Leonid"]
[Black "Tal, Mihail"]
[Site "Moscow"]
[Round "3"]
[Annotator "Karolyi,T/Primel,D"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Date "1961.12.25"]
[PlyCount "63"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg5 Nbd7 7. Bc4 Qa5 8. Qd2 e6 9. 0-0-0 b5 10. Bb3 Bb7 11. Rhe1 Nc5 12. Bxf6 gxf6 13. Qf4 Be7 14. Qg4 0-0-0 15. Bd5 b4 16. Bxb7+ Kxb7 17. Nd5 exd5 18. exd5 Rd7 19. Nc6 Qxa2 20. Qxb4+ Kc7 21. Nxe7 Rb8 22. Qa3 Qc4 23. Nc6 Rb3 24. Qa5+ Rb6 25. Kb1 Na4 26. Rd4 Nxb2 27. Kc1 Qc5 28. Re3 Kb7 29. Rc3 Rb5 30. Qa3 Qxa3 31. Rxa3 Rxd5 32. Na5+ 1-0