Did Mikhail Tal become the world chess champion?
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Did Mikhail Tal become the world chess champion?

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  Did you know? Mikhail Tal was a Soviet and Latvian chess player but also the eighth World Chess Champions.

  Hello everyone, I hope you guys are doing well and have a good day right now. Anyway as you can see the title is about Mikhail Tal. While I was looking at 1961 Tournament Games, I saw Mikhail impressive way of strategy which is attacking and unpredictable just like me. Because I always blunder— anyway that's not the point right now..

  Furthermore, Mikhail got a nickname aka "Misha" and is so cute because he got it in "The Magician from Riga". But the cute thing is that he got more games in both "The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games" and "Modern Chess Brilliancies". For example,

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  This games was playing against the Legendary Bobby Fischer and he won because Fischer pieces was pinned by the 2 powerful rook in the eighth file just like he became the eighth World Chess Champions.

  More fun Fact about him, his full name was "Mikhail Nekhemyevich Tal". Do you think you could write his name without mistake in the comment just with one time looking?. Also, he was born on 9th November 1936 at Riga, Latvia and died on 27th June 1992 at Moscow, Russia. Sadly he was a Legend and he got his grandmaster title on 1957 that was when he was 21 years old. Shocking right. Just like his peak rating on January 1980 his rating was 2705.

  In conclusion, we should learn many variant opening to get better in chess also one of the best things to do is memorize the move if you could and that's all from me, hope you guys have wonderful day. 

Hey, I'm Nickson and of course I like playing Chess but I also have a dream to play against Magnus Carlsen. Hopefully I could play against Magnus whether I lose or win..