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Tal, Part III. White to move and win except where noted.a) White Mates in 2. Tal vs Pal Benko, Bled, 1959[ Rh8+ ]b) Tal vs Vasily Smyslov, Bled, 1959r1bb1r1k/p4ppp/2p2n1N/7Q/2p5/2B2N2/qPP2PPP/2KR3R w - - 0 1[ Qxf7 ]c) Tal vs NN, USSR, 1963rn2kb1r/1b1n2pp/pq2p3/1p2P1B1/6Q1/2N5/PPP3PP/2KR1B1R w - - 0 1[ Rd6 if Bxd6 Qxe6+ Bc4 & Rf1+ ]d) Black to move and win. Larry Evans vs Tal, Amsterdam, 19641R2r1k1/6pp/p2Q1P2/1p1P4/6KP/P3q3/1P6/8 b - - 0 1[ ...h5+ Kxh5 Qf3+ Kg5 Qxf6+ ]e) Tal vs Robert Wade, Palma de Mallorca, 19662r1b1k1/p4p1n/3p2pQ/q3p1P1/2pNPP2/2P5/PKP5/7R w - - 0 1[ Ne6 ]Tal, Part IV. White to move and win except where noted.a) Black to move and win. Antonio Medina-Garcia vs Tal, Palma de Majorca, 19666k1/5pp1/8/B2n4/5P2/P4QPp/4K3/7q b - - 0 1[ ...Qxf3+ Kxf3 Ne3 ]b) Black to move and win. Edgar Walther vs Tal, Habana, 1966q5k1/r4ppp/4p3/3pP3/1Nn2P1P/1QP3P1/1P2R3/1K6 b - - 0 1[ ...Ra1+ Kc2 Na5 ]c) Tal vs Robert Fischer, Yugoslavia, 1959[ Nd4 w/Ne6+ ]d) Tal vs Mikhail Botvinnik, Moscow, 1960[ Rxa6+ ]e) Tal vs Mikhail Botvinnik, Moscow, 1961[ Nd7+ ]Tal, Part V. White to move and win except where noted.a) Tal vs Pal Benko, Amsterdam, 1964[ Rd8+ ]b) Tal vs Alexander Cherepkov, Alma Ata, 1968[ Nf5 if Rg6 Qxg8+ ]c) Tal vs Alexei Suetin, Tbilisi, 1969[ Qxe5 ]d) Tal vs NN, USSR, 1970[ Bxg5+ ]e) Tal vs Wolfgang Uhlmann, Herceg Novi blitz, 1970[ Nb6 w/Bb8 ]Tal, Part VI. White to move and win except where noted.a) Black to move and win. Gedeon Barcza vs Tal, Tallinn, 19712r5/pp3pkp/6p1/8/4P1P1/5b2/PqPQ1P1P/2R1K1R1 b - - 0 1[ ...Rd8 if Qe3 Qxc2 mates ]b) Tal vs Orest Averkin, Moscow, 1973[ Nd5 if Rxa4 Ne7# ]c) Tal vs William Hartston, Hastings, 1973[ Rxf7 w/Bxg6 & Qh7+ ]d) White Mates in 3. Tal vs NN, 1973[ Rxf7+ ]e) Tal vs NN, 1973[ Qb5+ if Qd7 Rxe5+ Be7 Bc6 Rxc6 Ra8+ ]Tal, Part VII. White to move and win except where noted.a) White Mates in 3. Tal vs NN, England simul, 1974[ Rd8+ ]b) Tal vs Sergey Makarichev, Tbilisi, 1978[ Rxb4 w/Qc3+ ]c) White Mates in 5. Tal vs Yrko Rantanen, Tallinn, 1979[ Bxg7+ w/Bh8 ]d) Tal vs Boris Spassky, Tilburg, 1980[ Rg5+ ]e) Tal vs Iivo Nei, USSR, 1981[ Qxf8+ ]Tal, Part VIII. White to move and win except where noted.a) Black to move and win. Robert Huebner vs Tal, Wijk aan Zee, 1982r4rk1/1pp3pp/p1pb1n2/4N2b/4PB2/3R1N2/PPP2PPP/R5K1 b - - 0 1[ ...Bxf3 if gxf3 Nh5 ]b) White Mates in 4. Tal vs David Bronstein, Tbilisi, 1982[ Ng6+ if hxg6 Qd8+ ]c) Black to move and win. Miguel Quinteros vs Tal, Argentina, 19872r2rk1/Qn2bppp/1p3n2/3q4/2pN1B2/6P1/PP3P1P/R3RNK1 b - - 0 1[ ...Bc5 if Nc2 Ra8 ]d) Tal vs Vladimir Akopian, Barcelona, 1992[ Qe5+ w/Rd8+ ] Edit | Delete by AWARDCHESS - 3 years ago Los Angeles United States Member Since: May 2008Member Points: 44075 Here are some chess problems taken from the games of Mikhail Tal. White to move and win except where noted. Solutions are between the brackets under each puzzle.Drag your mouse from one bracket to the other.a) Tal vs Birjanis, Riga, 1952r1b2r1k/pp2Nppp/2p2q2/4n3/8/QP4P1/P3PPBP/2RR2K1 w - - 0 1[ Nd5 w/Nc7 ]b) Black Mates in 3. Igor Glek vs Tal, Riga, 19556k1/pp5q/4p3/4P3/3rn1K1/PP2Q1P1/8/4R3 b - - 0 1[ ...Qf5+ Kh4 Nf6+ ]c) Black to move and win. A Ostrauskas vs Tal, Vilnius, 19555r1k/6pp/p7/1pnP3q/2p1P3/2P4b/PPB4Q/4R1NK b - - 0 1[ ...Bg2+ Kxg2 Rf2+ ]d) Black Mates in 4. E Chukaev vs Tal, Tbilisi, 19564r1k1/5pbp/3p2p1/1ppP4/pqP5/R4B2/1PQ3PP/1K6 b - - 0 1[ ...Re1+ if Bd1 Rxd1+ Ka2 Qxa3+ ]e) Black to move and win. Mark Taimanov vs Tal, Moscow, 1957r1qr3k/pp4pp/2n2p2/1P2p3/2P5/Q1P1BN1b/5PPP/R2R2K1 b - - 0 1[ ...Rxd1+ Rxd1 Qg4 Ne1 Qxd1 ]Tal, Part II. White to move and win except where noted.a) Tal vs Alexander Koblenz, Riga, 19572b2knQ/r2r2pR/2q1p2R/1p3pB1/6P1/2P5/P1Pp4/3K4 w - - 0 1[ Rf6+ w/Bh6+ ]b) Tal vs Bent Larsen, Reykjavik, 19572rr2k1/1p3pp1/p1b4p/q2Np1b1/4P3/3R1Q2/PPP1B1PP/1K1R4 w - - 0 1[ b4 w/Ra3 ]c) Tal vs Bent Larsen, Portoroz, 19581k1r3r/1p1bbp2/p3pn1p/4N3/7q/1BQ3N1/PPP3PP/3R1R1K w - - 0 1[ Nxd7+ w/Rxd7 & Qxh8+ ]d) Tal vs Georgy Tringov, Munich, 1958[ Qxd7+ ]e) Black to move and win. Max Blau vs Tal, Zurich, 19591r4k1/5p1p/R3b1p1/8/N7/4nPP1/r6P/2R2BK1 b - - 0 1

Michael Talhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce2SzAdu1jM&feature=player_embedded#!Elegy about Michael Talhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI7TCZ4cLa4&feature=relatedFischer vs. Talhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxAdwQFhXa0&feature=watch_responseMikhail Tal "The magician from Riga" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYiVbvsNuXU&feature=relatedThe Life and Times of Mikhail Tal

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Tal Memorial 2009 Mikhail Tal has a special place in the hearts of most chess players. Tal deeply loved the game of chess and believed "Chess, first of all, is Art." Fittingly, the 2009 Tal Memorial in honor of the "Magician from Riga" is the strongest tournament of the year, and one of the strongest fields of all time. The line-up (in alphabetical order) is: Viswanathan Anand, Levon Aronian, Magnus Carlsen, Vladimir Kramnik, Peter Leko, Boris Gelfand, Vassily Ivanchuk, Alexander Morozevich, Peter Svidler and Ruslan Ponomariov. The main event will be followed also by the World Blitz Championship.

Tal vs Botvinnik 1960 Moscow No sooner did Mikhail Botvinnik regain his title, the chess world became entranced by charismatic young Latvian named Mikhail Tal. Tal won the 1958 interzonal tournament at Portoroz, then helped the Soviet Union to retain the Chess Olympiad; before going on to win the 1959 Candidates Tournament with 20 out of 28 points--a point and a half ahead of second place Paul Keres. Tal and Botvinnik, 1958 Tal often sacrificed material in search for the initiative in chess. With such intuitive sacrifices, he created vast complications, and many masters found it impossible to solve all the problems he created over the board, though deeper post-game analysis found flaws in some of his conceptions. Although this playing style was scorned by ex-World Champion Vasily Smyslov as nothing more than "tricks", Tal convincingly beat every notable grandmaster with his trademark aggression.1 Lev Khariton relates the electricity of the match: This match played in Moscow in the spring of 1960 is forever engraved in my memory. Hundreds of chess fans who had failed to buy an entrance ticket stayed outside the Pushkin Theater watching on a big demonstration board the games of the match. I will never forget the famous 6th game in which Tal right after the opening moves sacrificed a knight. It was a challenge to Botvinnik, to all his followers who were trying to put the game into the Procrustean Bed of cold logic and algorithms. As if nothing had happened, Tal was pacing to and fro on the stage, and his famous opponent , who had scored victories over such legends as Lasker, Capablanca and Alekhine, confronted with a surprise sacrifice was taking all possible pains to refute Tal's daring decision. All in vain! Botvinnik had already few minutes left on his clock when Stahlberg and Golombek, the arbiters of the match, transferred the game backstage. The spectators were so excited that the atmosphere in the playing hall was more reminiscent of a football match! Tal won this game, and in spite of Botvinnik's stubborn resistance, he won the whole match.2 The match was conducted in Moscow from March 15 to May 7, 1960. After 21 games, at the age of 23, Mikhail Tal became the 8th World Chess Champion. click on a game number to replay game 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Botvinnik 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 1 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ Tal 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 0 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ FINAL SCORE: Tal 12½; Botvinnik 8½Reference: game collection WCC Index [Tal-Botvinnik 1960] NOTABLE GAMES [what is this?] · Game #6 Botvinnik vs Tal, 1960 0-1 · Game #1 Tal vs Botvinnik, 1960 1-0 · Game #9 Tal vs Botvinnik, 1960 0-1 1Mikhail Tal article at Wikipedia2Mikhail Tal, the Chess Player Ahead of Chess by Lev Khariton Tal-Botvinnik World Championship Match page 1 of 1; 21 games Game Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Tal vs Botvinnik 1-0 32 1960 Tal-Botvinnik World Championship Match C18 French, Winawer 2. Botvinnik vs Tal ½-½ 44 1960 Tal-Botvinnik World Championship Match A61 Benoni 3. Tal vs Botvinnik ½-½ 37 1960 Tal-Botvinnik World Championship Match B11 Caro-Kann, Two Knights, 3...Bg4 4. Botvinnik vs Tal ½-½ 40 1960 Tal-Botvinnik World Championship Match E27 Nimzo-Indian, Samisch Variation 5. Tal vs Botvinnik ½-½ 43 1960 Tal-Botvinnik World Championship Match B18 Caro-Kann, Classical 6. Botvinnik vs Tal 0-1 47 1960 Tal-Botvinnik World Championship Match E69 King's Indian, Fianchetto, Classical Main line 7. Tal vs Botvinnik 1-0 52 1960 Tal-Botvinnik World Championship Match B18 Caro-Kann, Classical 8. Botvinnik vs Tal 1-0 41 1960 Tal-Botvinnik World Championship Match E10 Queen's Pawn Game 9. Tal vs Botvinnik 0-1 58 1960 Tal-Botvinnik World Championship Match B18 Caro-Kann, Classical 10. Botvinnik vs Tal ½-½ 60 1960 Tal-Botvinnik World Championship Match E88 King's Indian, Samisch, Orthodox, 7.d5 c6 11. Tal vs Botvinnik 1-0 72 1960 Tal-Botvinnik World Championship Match A07 King's Indian Attack 12. Botvinnik vs Tal ½-½ 72 1960 Tal-Botvinnik World Championship Match D32 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 13. Tal vs Botvinnik ½-½ 16 1960 Tal-Botvinnik World Championship Match A30 English, Symmetrical 14. Botvinnik vs Tal ½-½ 22 1960 Tal-Botvinnik World Championship Match E24 Nimzo-Indian, Samisch 15. Tal vs Botvinnik ½-½ 41 1960 Tal-Botvinnik World Championship Match B18 Caro-Kann, Classical 16. Botvinnik vs Tal ½-½ 41 1960 Tal-Botvinnik World Championship Match E24 Nimzo-Indian, Samisch 17. Tal vs Botvinnik 1-0 41 1960 Tal-Botvinnik World Championship Match B18 Caro-Kann, Classical 18. Botvinnik vs Tal ½-½ 76 1960 Tal-Botvinnik World Championship Match E24 Nimzo-Indian, Samisch 19. Tal vs Botvinnik 1-0 41 1960 Tal-Botvinnik World Championship Match A87 Dutch, Leningrad, Main Variation 20. Botvinnik vs Tal ½-½ 27 1960 Tal-Botvinnik World Championship Match E24 Nimzo-Indian, Samisch 21. Tal vs Botvinnik ½-½ 17 1960 Tal-Botvinnik World Championship Match E19 Queen's Indian, Old Main line, 9.Qxc3 page 1 of 1; 21 games REFINE SEARCH: White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2) Sep-19-06 talisman: #1-#21 and they all have the K-bitz sign. Sep-19-06 suenteus po 147: It's seen as a clash of chess ideologies now, but it's interesting to know it was seen that way then. I've been curious how history will look at the Topalov-Kramnik match fifty years hence. Will it be seen as akin to this one? Sep-19-06 positionalgenius: This is one of the greatest WCC matches ever.I love all these games. Sep-20-06 whatthefat: A wonderful match. Tal was absolutely at the height of his powers, and Botvinnik fought hard, but seemed a little off colour - maybe simply dazzled. The next year, it was a completely different story. Tal was not Tal, whereas Botvinnik was most formidable. It's a real shame that the Tal of 1960 couldn't meet the Botvinnik of 1961 - that would have been a truly epic tussle. By the way, I highly recommend Tal's match book. It really conveys the flavour of the match, while being very objective. Sep-20-06 jamesmaskell: Im going thorugh Tals match book funnilly enough. Really good stuff. That knight sac in the 6th is mind-boggling. Just looking at it you just think "What???", but the way he storms through afterwards is incredible. Sep-20-06 acirce: <It was a golden age of chess journalism with all those writings about 'an ultimate clash' between 'iron logic', represented by Botvinnik, and 'diabolical tactical trickery', as shown by Tal. It appealed well to the generally well-educated masses of chess fans in the Soviet Union, who needed a little poetic flavour - describing a chess game as an intellectual duel - to keep fuelling their interest in sparsely played World Championship Matches between Soviet grandmasters. Their sympathies were more or less evenly spread between the two players. Even some 15 years later, the Botvinnik-Tal controversy didn't seem to be dying out. Indeed, it represented a mystery: the first match saw Botvinnik losing by 4 points, and the next year he came back, winning by an even larger margin. Serious books had been written on the subject, with in-depth analysis of the players' respective styles done by the best chess journalists the Soviet Union ever produced. I considered myself a good enough chess-player to form my own opinion on the subject. Surely I wasn't going to take any crap from sportswriters, and one day I sat down to look at the games myself. Luckily, the books also contained the game scores from both matches. I thought of something along the lines of tracking the widely announced differences between the players' styles. I expected to see wild attacks and numerous sacrifices from Tal in one game, and deep strategic plans relentlessly implemented by Botvinnik in another. Before I could do any deep analysis I was disappointed. The difference in style didn't show as much as I expected! Tal, the tactician, was well aware of the positional principles listed in the books. Botvinnik, the strategist, went for tactical solutions very often. The two bashed at each other any way they could, with Tal winning the most in the first match, and Botvinnik getting the better of it in the return match. I couldn't see where the difference between them lay, except for Tal being the aggressor early and more often. Go figure. I began to suspect that I, along with thousands of others, had been led to believe in something that didn't exist. Or maybe, such thing as style of play does exist, but on some higher level of the decision-making process that is lurking in the background only to surface in critical moments of a battle. I, at my superficial glance, of course wasn't able to detect it. The truth is, a chess-player's main objective is to find good moves, and the last thing he should worry about is attaching them to his (or, worse, someone else's) theoretical beliefs. In retrospect it's nice to attribute your success to superior 'understanding' or 'class', but it doesn't relieve chess-players from sweating it out on every move. While it's possible to distinguish between positional and combinative play, I wouldn't put one ahead of the other, and here I disagree with the great maestro Mikhail Botvinnik.> Alex Yermolinsky, "The Road to Chess Improvement" Sep-20-06 Petrosian63: Tal the great!!! Art defeats Science... LOL!!! Sep-20-06 keypusher: <acirce> thanks, nice quote. <It was a challenge to Botvinnik, to all his followers who were trying to put the game into the Procrustean Bed of cold logic and algorithms. As if nothing had happened, Tal was pacing to and fro on the stage, and his famous opponent , who had scored victories over such legends as Lasker, Capablanca and Alekhine, confronted with a surprise sacrifice was taking all possible pains to refute Tal's daring decision. All in vain! Botvinnik had already few minutes left on his clock when Stahlberg and Golombek, the arbiters of the match, transferred the game backstage. The spectators were so excited that the atmosphere in the playing hall was more reminiscent of a football match! Tal won this game, and in spite of Botvinnik's stubborn resistance, he won the whole match.> Wait 'til next year! --Botvinnik, Procrustes, Cold Logic, Algorithms, etc. Sep-20-06 micartouse: As beautiful as Game 6 was, I believe Game 1 was the greatest game of the match. It makes absolutely no sense! Tal forgot that rooks were meant for the endgame and used them as minor pieces instead. Sep-20-06 CapablancaFan: <With such intuitive sacrifices, he created vast complications, and many masters found it impossible to solve all the problems he created over the board, though deeper post-game analysis found flaws in some of his conceptions.> Was every sacrafice made by Tal exactly sound? Well maybe, maybe not. You try finding the CORRECT refutation with less 5 mins. on your clock! Lol. Sep-20-06 Benzol: "I shall observe for the thousand and first time: years of analysis and minutes of play are not quite the same thing" - Mikhail Tal. Very true! Sep-20-06 talisman: 1958?(under picture)must be '60.keep the candidates tournament and tal's the challenger again(and again?). Sep-26-06 talisman: these two kinda remind me of what we're watching now w/ the WC. Sep-27-06 whatthefat: <talisman> I'm currently seeing shades of Petrosian-Spassky 1966. Sep-27-06 talisman: <whatthefat> you're right. at least when spassky threw everything at tigran in '66 he would come away with a draw.topa throws everything at kramnik and comes out 0-2.how do you lose those 2 games? i look for topa now to switch to e-4(5th game).if he came to the game w/nothing for the Petroff then shame on him.what will he play against kramnik's d-4(which he will play for the duration)? he may need to win one w/ black to even it up.kramnik will be a hard nut to crack now up 2-0.come to think of it, it wasn't easy for spassky in '69 either.well anyway i'm enjoying this-wish it was 24 games! Sep-27-06 MaxxLange: The Yermolinsky quote came to mind right away, but I could not remember where I had seen it. Thanks. That's a great book, by the way. Nov-29-06 talisman: <talisman> <these two kinda remind me of what we're watching now w/the WC> .....somebody needs to tell me how to delete a post! Apr-13-07 sanyas: Too bad, you can't anymore... <insert Topalov joke here> Oct-22-08 whatthefat: Wow, this article is written like junk. NOTE: You need to pick a username and password to post a reply. Getting your account takes less than a minute, totally anonymous, and 100% free--plus, it entitles you to features otherwise unavailable. Pick your username now and join the chessgames community! If you already have an account, you should login now. Please observe our posting guidelines: No obscene, racist, sexist, or profane language. No spamming, advertising, or duplicating posts. No personal attacks against other users. Nothing in violation of United States law. See something which violates our rules? Blow the whistle and inform an administrator. NOTE: Keep all discussion on the topic of this page. This forum is for this specific tournament and nothing else. If you want to discuss chess in general, or this site, you might try the Kibitzer's Café. 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Mikhail Botvinnik vs Mikhail Tal "Tricks are for KIDs" (game of the day Oct-25-08)Tal-Botvinnik World Championship Match 1960 · King's Indian Defense: Fianchetto Variation. Classical Main Line (E69) · 0-1 Given 24 times; par: 70 [what's this?] explore this opening find similar games 43 more Botvinnik/Tal games sac: 21...Nf4 PGN: download | view Help: general | java-troubleshooting TIP: If Java is not installed or isn't working, a small red "X" usually appears where the game should be. Most Java problems can be resolved by downloading and (re)installing Java from www.java.com. Java Viewer: ChessTutor Chess Viewer Deluxe (Default) MistyBeach MyChess None (text only) Sjkbase What is this? For help with the default chess viewer, please see the Chess Viewer Deluxe Quickstart Guide. < Earlier Kibitzing · PAGE 3 OF 3 · Later Kibitzing > Dec-22-06 CoryLetain: Sacrifice's can be very intimidating OTB. Jan-14-07 kazmarov: great game by tal interestingly they both played super... Jun-16-07 inthestepsofTal: Yes 24.a3! was the strongest continuation, but this doesn't mean that the sacrifice is incorrect, as black had the strong rejoinder 23...Be5!. Tal writes about it in his autobiography... don't remember why he didn't play it though.. But if not Botvinnik couldn't refute the sacrifice on the board, the move ...Nf4 was correct in the psychological point of view. Now Botvinniks "slight advantage" had vanished in to "unclear play", which he didn't like! Jul-20-07 jdoliner: It's too bad the pun isn't "Winner Take Mikhail" Nov-02-07 costachess: a3 do not work because Rxc3! Nov-14-07 Jim Bartle: Interesting comment from Lev Khariton at http://www.chessbase.com/columns/co.: "I will never forget the famous 6th game in which Tal right after the opening moves sacrificed a knight. It was a challenge to Botvinnik, to all his followers who were trying to put the game into the Procrustean Bed of cold logic and algorithms." Feb-13-08 BlackWhiteandColors: In his book about this match, Tal wrote, after 28 ...Bf4 "Unfortunately black missing the opportunity to finish the game in a quickly and elegant way: 28 ...Rxk 29. RbxR Rd1 30. Rc4 Bb2". In Portuguese, my native language, we can say "Tal é o Tal", which means "Tal is the one". Mar-16-08 Gilmoy: I first saw this game in Sargon III's (yes, III) game collection. That was in my CalTech undergrad days, so about 24 years ago. IIRC, Sargon III's blurb went something like: <... on the 21st move the "Magician from Riga" sacrifices a Knight, introducing mind-boggling complications. Botvinnik, like so many others before him, is unable to break the spell ...> I still have Sargon lying in a box at home, so I could (fly over the ocean and) boot it up. First I'd have to find a computer with a 5.25" floppy disk drive and MS-DOS :) Mar-21-08 Knight13: <Why not 28... Rxc3> Because Tal decided that ...Bf4 is better, or that he missed it. Mar-21-08 Knight13: 28...Rxc3 should be the best move. I couldn't find any refutation for White. Apr-11-08 AAAAron: I wonder how Tal, in his prime, would contend with someone of Kramnik's nature..? May-11-08 plang: 9..Qb6 is rarely played nowadays because of 10 c5. 14..Rfc8 seems odd since the queens rook is the more logical choice for c8 but Tal's choice is, in fact, an example of his "psychological" style. Gallagher: " Tal was trying to disguise his real intentions - to attack on the kingside with ..f5." 15 Rb1 seems unnecessary and makes the ..f5 break stronger. Tal's opinion was that the knight sacrifice 21..Nf4 was forced because all other continuations were bad but Kasparov felt that black would have been fine after 21..Nf6. Botvinnik's decision to get the queens off with 25 Rxb2 ended up being the losing move; the complications after 25 Bxf3 would have favored white. Tal pointed out that 28..Rxc3 29 Rbxc3..Rd1 30 Rc4..Bb2 would have won more quickly. May-22-08 dTal: <<AAAAron>: I wonder how Tal, in his prime, would contend with someone of Kramnik's nature..?> Fairly easily I think. The difference in tactical ability alone would be overwhelming. Jun-23-08 ChessYouGood: 14...Rfc8 is the psychological move of the century given the later knight sac. Tal describes in his Life and Games that he was attempting to lure Boty into play on the queenside - and indeed Boty immediately, and far too slowly places his rook on B1 only to be kicked out by the bishop once Tal plays the inevitable f5 and retakes with his bishop. A brilliant study on how to outfox an opponent, how to gain the initiative as black, and a great example of Boty's inferiority to Tal once the play becomes sharp and 'un-positional'. I love it how Tal, who acknowledges that he missed 28...Rxc3, finds himself after all the fireworks with an extra passed pawn. The guy was awesome. Oct-25-08 CapablancaFan: That's why I like going over Tal games every once in awhile. More often than not, when he plays, the sacrifices flow like water. But you sense he doesn't do it to be flashy, but just part of a normal course of action as the most expedient way to achieve his objective. Oct-25-08 andrewjsacks: Botvinnik would have had no chance against a healthy Tal in the rematch. Oct-25-08 al wazir: In the game as played I think black wins with 27...Rxc3! 28. Rbxc3 Rd1 29. Rc8+ (29. Rc7 Bb2) Bxc8 30. Rxc8+ Kf7 31. Rc7+ Kf8 32. Rc8+ Ke7 33. Rc7+ Kd8 34. Rxg7 Rxe1 35. Bf3 Rh1+ 36. Bxh1 d1=Q. Oct-25-08 Silverstrike: <al wazir> Yes, Tal mentions a similar line in his autobiography on p. 198, but on the following move, 28...Rxc3 29.Rbxc3 Rd1 30.Rc4 Bb2 . Oct-25-08 Chess Carnival: just WOW !!! Oct-25-08 Chessmensch: This game is discussed in detail in The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games (Burgess, Nunn and Emms) on page 240. Oct-25-08 traction: <kevin86> I think all the gotd since WC started have been from the previous WC matches! PS I love this game by tal...I used to love playing KID, slowly grew tired of just having one repertoire against 1d4 so started experimenting with various other systems...none of them I find as exciting as KID though Oct-25-08 kevin86: In this continuing serial of WC games,this may be the best yet. Thanks to this site,Tal is given an increased historic impact and not lost among the series of Soviet World Title holders. Oct-25-08 HannibalSchlecter: I like how all the craziness simplifies into a normal looking endgame as if nothing strange had happened. Oct-25-08 al wazir: <Silverstrike>: Yes, I know it's similar. Since Tal didn't mention it, I have my doubts. But it looks to me as if Rxc3 also wins if played on move 27. I posted my analysis above, for what it's worth. Oct-25-08 wvkevin: Botvinnik's 20th move (exf5) was the short sighted error that allows the Knight sacrifice to work. Tal realized he would get two pawns back immediately, plus creating 2 isolated pawns on the King side. As the game played out it proved to be a small enough of an advantage to win the endgame for Tal. Not so much a genius sacrifice as it was eyeing a moment of opportunity the moment it presented itself. Most players would not have sighted that move for sure. Jump directly to page # (enter number from 1 to 3) < Earlier Kibitzing · PAGE 3 OF 3 · Later Kibitzing > A free online guide presented by Chessgames.com NOTE: You need to pick a username and password to post a reply. Getting your account takes less than a minute, totally anonymous, and 100% free--plus, it entitles you to features otherwise unavailable. Pick your username now and join the chessgames community! If you already have an account, you should login now. Please observe our posting guidelines: No obscene, racist, sexist, or profane language. No spamming, advertising, or duplicating posts. No personal attacks against other users. Nothing in violation of United States law. See something which violates our rules? 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Mikhail Tal From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Mikhail Tal Full name Russian: Mikhail Nekhemievich TalLatvian: Mihails Tāls Country Latvia Soviet Union Born November 9, 1936Riga, Latvia Died June 28, 1992[1] (aged 55) Moscow, Russia Title Grandmaster (1957) World Champion 1960–1961 Mikhail Tal (Latvian: Mihails Tāls; Russian: Михаил Нехемьевич Таль, Mikhail Nekhemievich Tal, IPA: [mʲixa'iɫ̺ n̻ʲɛ'xɛmjɛvʲiʨ t̺al̻]; sometimes transliterated Mihails Tals or Mihail Tal) (November 9, 1936 – June 28, 1992)[1] was a Soviet-Latvian chess player, a Grandmaster, and the eighth World Chess Champion. He was often called "Misha" (a diminutive for Mikhail) and also "The magician from Riga" for his daring combinational style. Both The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games (Burgess, Nunn & Emms 2004) and Modern Chess Brilliancies (Evans 1970) include more games by Tal than any other player. Tal was also a highly-regarded chess writer. Many authorities consider him to have been the greatest attacking player of all time. Contents [hide] 1 Career 1.1 Early years 1.2 Soviet champion 1.3 World champion 1.4 Later achievements 1.5 Team competitions 2 Tournament and match wins (or equal first) 2.1 1950-1966 2.2 1967-1979 2.3 1981-1991 2.4 Score with some major Grandmasters 3 Health problems 4 Playing style 5 Quotations on chess 6 Notable chess games 7 Writings 8 Notes 9 References 9.1 Further reading 9.2 External links [edit] Career [edit] Early years Tal was born in Riga, Latvia. At the age of eight, Tal learned to play chess while watching his father, a doctor. Shortly thereafter he joined the Riga Palace of Young Pioneers chess club. His play was not exceptional at first but he worked hard to improve. Alexander Koblents began tutoring Tal in 1949. Tal's game improved rapidly thereafter, and by 1951 he had qualified for the Latvian Championship. In the 1952 Latvian Championship Tal finished ahead of his trainer. Tal won his first Latvian title in 1953, and was awarded the title of candidate master. He became a Soviet master in 1954 by defeating Vladimir Saigin in a qualifying match. That same year he also scored his first win over a grandmaster when Yuri Averbakh lost on time in a drawn position. Tal graduated in Literature from the University of Riga, writing a thesis on the satirical works of Ilf and Petrov, and taught school in Riga for a time in his early 20s. He was a member of the Daugava Sports Society, and represented Latvia in internal Soviet team competitions. [edit] Soviet champion Tal qualified for the USSR Chess Championship final in 1956, finishing joint fifth, and became the youngest player to win it the following year, at the age of 20. He had not played in enough international tournaments to qualify for the title of Grandmaster, but FIDE decided to waive the normal restrictions and award him the title anyway because of his achievement in winning the Soviet Championship.[2] Tal made three appearances for the USSR at Student Olympiads, from 1956–1958, winning three team gold medals and three board gold medals. He won nineteen games, drew eight, and lost none, for 85.2 percent.[3] He retained the Soviet Championship title the following year, and competed in the World Chess Championship for the first time. He won the 1958 Interzonal tournament at Portorož, then helped the Soviet Union retain the Chess Olympiad. [edit] World champion Tal and Botvinnik, 1960 match Tal won a very strong tournament at Zürich, 1959. Following the Interzonal, the top players carried on to the Candidates' Tournament, Yugoslavia 1959. Tal showed superior form by winning with 20/28 points, ahead of Paul Keres with 18.5, followed by Tigran Petrosian, Vasily Smyslov, Bobby Fischer, Svetozar Gligorić, Friðrik Ólafsson, and Pal Benko. Tal's victory was attributed to his dominance over the lower half of the field;[4] whilst scoring only one win and three loses versus Keres, he won all four individual games against Fischer, and took 3½ points out of 4 from each of Gligorić, Olafsson, and Benko.[5] In 1960, at the age of 23, Tal thoroughly defeated the relatively staid and strategic Mikhail Botvinnik in a World Championship match, held in Moscow, by 12.5–8.5 (six wins, two losses, and thirteen draws), making him the youngest-ever world champion (a record later broken by Garry Kasparov, who earned the title at 22). Botvinnik won the return match against Tal in 1961, also held in Moscow, 13–8 (ten wins to five, with six draws). In the period between the matches Botvinnik had thoroughly analyzed Tal's style, and turned most of the return match's games into slow wars of maneuver or endgames, rather than the complicated tactical melees which were Tal's happy hunting ground.[6] Tal's chronic kidney problems contributed to his defeat, and his doctors in Riga advised that he should postpone the match for health reasons. Yuri Averbakh claimed that Botvinnik would agree to a postponement only if Tal was certified unfit by Moscow doctors, and that Tal then decided to play.[7] His short reign atop the chess world made him one of the two so-called "winter kings" who interrupted Botvinnik's long reign from 1948 to 1963 (the other was Smyslov, world champion 1957–1958). His highest Elo rating was 2705, achieved in 1980. His highest Historical Chessmetrics Rating was 2799, in September 1960. This capped his torrid stretch which had begun in early 1957. [edit] Later achievements Mikhail Tal, 1971 Immediately after he lost his title back to Botvinnik, Tal won the 1961 Bled supertournament, ahead of a star-studded field which included Fischer, Petrosian, Keres, Gligorić, Efim Geller, and Miguel Najdorf. Subsequently Tal played in several Candidates' Tournaments. In 1962 at Curaçao, he had serious health problems, having undergone a major operation shortly before the tournament, and had to withdraw three-quarters of the way through, scoring just 7 out of 21. In 1965, he lost the final match against Boris Spassky, after defeating Lajos Portisch and Bent Larsen. He lost a 1968 semi-final match against Viktor Korchnoi, after defeating Gligoric. Health worries caused a slump in his play from late 1968 to late 1969, but he recovered his form after having a kidney removed. He won the 1979 Riga Interzonal with a dominant score of 14/17, but the next year he lost a quarter-final match against Lev Polugaevsky, one of the players to hold a positive score against him. He also played in the 1985 Montpellier Candidates' Tournament, a round-robin of 16 qualifiers, finishing in a tie for fourth and fifth places, and narrowly missing further advancement after drawing a playoff match with Jan Timman. He later defeated Timman in a 1988 exhibition match. From July 1972 to April 1973, Tal played a record 86 consecutive games without a loss (47 wins and 39 draws). Between October 23, 1973 and October 16, 1974, he played 95 consecutive games without a loss (46 wins and 49 draws), shattering his previous record. These are the two longest unbeaten streaks in modern chess history.[8] A measure of Tal's strength also in his later years is given by his excellent score against Karpov in tournament games: one loss and nineteen draws out of 20 games they played, arguably the best score of any player against Karpov apart of course from Kasparov. One of Tal's greatest achievements during his later career was an equal first place with Anatoly Karpov (whom he seconded in a number of tournaments and world championships) in the 1979 Montreal "Tournament of Stars", one of the strongest events held in the 1960-1970s. Tal played in 21 Soviet Championships[9], winning it a record six times (1957, 1958, 1967, 1972, 1974, 1978), a number only equalled by Botvinnik. He was also a five-time winner of the International Chess Tournament in Tallinn, Estonia, with victories in 1971, 1973, 1977, 1981, and 1983. Tal was also a formidable blitz chess player. In 1970 he took second place to Bobby Fischer (who scored a sensational 19/22) in a super-strong blitz tournament at Herceg Novi, Yugoslavia. In 1988, aged 51, he won the second official World Blitz Championship (the first was won by Kasparov the previous year in Brussels) at Saint John, ahead of such players as Garry Kasparov, the reigning world champion, and ex-champion Anatoly Karpov. In the last decisive match he defeated Rafael Vaganian by 4-0. [edit] Team competitions Fischer versus Tal at the 1960 Olympiad In Olympiad play, Mikhail Tal was a member of eight gold medal winning Soviet teams (1958, 1960, 1962, 1966, 1972, 1974, 1980, and 1982), won sixty-five games, drew thirty-four, and lost only two games (81.2 percent). This percentage makes him the player with the best score among those participating in at least four Olympiads. Individually, Tal won seven Olympiad board medals, including five gold (1958, 1962, 1966, 1972, 1974), and two silver (1960, 1982).[3] Tal also represented the Soviet Union at six European Team Championships (1957, 1961, 1970, 1973, 1977, 1980), winning team gold medals each time, and three board gold medals (1957, 1970, and 1977). He scored 14 wins, 20 draws, and three losses, for 64.9 percent.[3] Tal played board nine for the USSR in the first match against the Rest of the World team at Belgrade 1970, scoring 2 out of 4. He was on board seven for the USSR in the second match against the Rest of the World team at London 1984, scoring 2 out of 3. The USSR won both team matches. He was an Honoured Master of Sport.[10] From 1950 (when he won the Latvian junior championship) to 1991 Tal won or tied for first in 68 tournaments (see table below). During his 41-years career he played about 2,700 tournament or match games, scoring over 65 percent. [edit] Tournament and match wins (or equal first) [edit] 1950-1966 Year Tournament Match / Team competition 1950 Riga - Latvia Junior championship, 1st 1953 Riga - 10th Latvian championship, 1st (14,5/19) 1955 Riga - 23rd Soviet Championship Semifinal, 1st (12,5/18) 1956 Uppsala - World students team championship, board 3 (6/7) 1957 Moscow - 24th URS-ch, 1st (14/21) Reykjavik - Wch-team students, board 1 (8,5/10)Baden/Vienna - European Team Championship, board 4, 1st-2nd (3/5) 1958 Riga - 25th URS-ch, 1st (12/19)Portorož - Interzonal, 1st (13,5/20) Varna- Wch-team students, board 1 (8,5/10)Munich Olympiad, board 5 (13,5/15) 1959 Riga - Latvian Olympiad, 1st (7/7)Zürich tournament, 1st (11,5/15)Bled-Zagreb-Belgrade - Candidates tournament, 1st (20/28) 1960 Hamburg - Match Germany vs USSR, 1st (7,5/8) Moscow - Match for the World title with Mikhail Botvinnik: (+6 -2 =13) 1960/61 Stockholm tournament, 1st (9,5/11) 1961 Bled tournament, 1st (14,5/19) 1962 Varna Olympiad, board 6 (10/13) 1963 Miskolc tournament, 1st (12,5/15) 1963/64 Hastings Premier tournament, 1st (7/9) 1964 Reykjavik tournament, 1st (12,5/13)Amsterdam Interzonal, 1st-4th (17/23)Kislovodsk tournament, 1st (7,5/10) 1965 Riga, Latvian championship, 1st (10/13) Match with Lajos Portisch: (+4 -1 =3) Match with Bent Larsen: (+3 -2 =5) 1966 Sarajevo tournament, 1st-2nd (11/15)Palma de Mallorca tournament, 1st (12/15) La Habana Olympiad, board 3 (12/13) [edit] 1967-1979 Year Tournament Match / Team competition 1967 Kharkov 35th URS-ch, = 1st (12/15) 1968 Gori tournament, 1st (7,5/10) Belgrade, Match with Svetozar Gligoric: (+3 -1 =5) 1969/70 Tbilisi, Goglidze memorial tournament, 1st-2nd (10,5/15) 1970 Poti - Georgian Open championship (hors concours), 1st (11/14)Sochi - Grandmasters vs Young Masters, 1st (10,5/14) Kapfenberg, European Team Championship, board 6 (5/6) 1971 Tallinn tournament, 1st-2nd (11,5/15) 1972 Sukhumi tournament, 1st (11/15)Baku 40th URS-ch, 1st (15/21) Skopje Olympiad, board 4 (14/16) 1973 Wijk aan Zee tournament, 1st (10,5/15) Tallinn tournament, 1st (12/15) Sochi - Chigorin memorial, 1st (11/15)Dubna tournament, 1st-2nd (10/15) 1973/74 Hastings tournament, 1st-4th (10/15) 1974 Lublin tournament, 1st (12,5/15)Halle tournament, 1st (11,5/15)Novi Sad tournament, 1st (11,5/15) Leningrad 42nd URS-ch, = 1st (9,5/15) Nice Olympiad, board 5 (11,5/15) Moscow, USSR Club Team Championship, board 1, 1st (6,5/9) 1977 Tallin - Keres memorial, 1st (11,5/17)Leningrad 60th October Rev., 1st-2nd (11,5/17) Sochi - Chigorin memorial, 1st (11/15) 1978 Tbilisi 46th URS-ch, 1st (11/17) 1979 Montreal tournament, 1st-2nd (12/18) Riga Interzonal, 1st (14/17) [edit] 1981-1991 Year Tournament 1981 Tallinn - Keres memorial, 1stMalaga tournament, 1st Riga tournament, 1st (11/15)Porz tournament, 1stLviv tournament, 1st-2nd 1982 Moscow - Alekhine memorial, 1st (9/13)Erevan tournament, 1st (10/15) Sochi - Chigorin memorial, 1st (10/15)Pforzheim tournament, 1st (9/11) 1983 Tallinn - Keres memorial, 1st (10/15) 1984 Albena tournament, 1st-2nd (7/11) 1985 Jurmala tournament, 1st (9/13) 1986 West Berlin open, 1st-2nd (7,5/9) Tbilisi - Goglidze memorial, 1st-2nd (9/13) 1987 Termas de Rio Hondo (Brazil), 1st (8/11) Jurmala tournament, 1st-4th (7,5/13) 1988 Chicago open, 1st 2nd World blitz Championship at Saint John: 1st 1991 Buenos Aires - Najdorf memorial, 1st-3rd (8,5/13)Porz open, =4th (7/9) [edit] Score with some major Grandmasters Only official tournament or match games have been taken into account. The sign "+" means that Tal won those games. Mikhail Botvinnik: +11 -12 =20 Vasily Smyslov: + 3 - 4 =21 David Bronstein: + 8 - 5 =18 Paul Keres: + 4 - 8 =20 Tigran Petrosian: + 6 - 9 =27 Boris Spassky: + 6 - 9 =25 Bobby Fischer: + 4 - 2 =5 Viktor Korchnoi: + 7 - 11 =5 Efim Geller: + 6 - 6 =23 Lajos Portisch: + 9 - 5 =18 Bent Larsen: +12 - 7 =18 Anatoly Karpov: + 0 - 1 =19

TAL OPEN MEMORIAL. 3 view all pairings My Group: Group #1 123456789101112 Score 1. Esox-lucius (2244) X 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 22 2. jcamargos (2149) 0 0 X 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 19 3. Ben_Masel (1902) 0 0 1 0 X 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 16 4. VampireLestrat (1674) 0 0 0 0 0 1 X 0 ½ 1 _ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 14.5 5. norolah54 (1593) 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 X _ _ 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 10.5 6. AWARDCHESS (1814) 0 0 0 0 1 0 _ 0 _ _ X 1 1 _ 0 1 1 1 _ 1 1 1 1 10 7. ChessInProgress (1638) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 X 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 9 8. lynxcats (1500) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 _ 0 0 X 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 8 9. suku (1489) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 1 1 1 1 1 1 7 10. FOUREYES (1040) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 _ 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 X 1 1 1 1 6 11. hall2001 (1888) 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 1 1 5 12. Number2 (1590) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 0 TD: AWARDCHESS Started on Oct 16, 2008 @ 7:21pm Players: 12 Time Control: 3 days/move Max Group Size: 12 Rating Range: Open # Advance: 3 Tie Breaks: No Points Available: 568 Games Rated: Yes Pairings | Players | Games| Standings 92% COMPLETE! Tournament Stats Starting Players: 12 Completed Games: 127 (tournament is 92% complete) Eliminated Round 1: 0 (0% of field) Games in Round 1: 132 (96% completed) Players Withdrawn: 0 (0%) # Timeouts: 54 (42%) Remaining Players: 12 (100%) Remaining Games: 5 (current round) Average Rating: 1761 Biggest Upset: 1957 defeats 2106 Chess and Tal's Chess partners, woman and friends loved Tal! When he died, the Moscow Sport Committee Leaders do not attended his last Chess roadway! Just 2 ex-wives, a son, and a few friends... Who care? Are we careless?.. Take a second of silence!.. Let's play just Chess Games! Tal Open Memorial. 3 TD. AWARDCHESS. Grigoriy Burtayev. Los Angeles. awardchess@gmail.com Comments: Edit | Delete by AWARDCHESS - 3 months ago Los Angeles United States Member Since: May 2008Member Points: 9336 God Bless us! Let play well! Edit | Delete by AWARDCHESS - 5 months ago Los Angeles United States Member Since: May 2008Member Points: 9336 You can share your fun short stories, here! Do not be boring, by waiting! We fill our list fast! Our non-military Fight ahead! Edit | Delete by AWARDCHESS - 7 months ago Los Angeles United States Member Since: May 2008Member Points: 9336 David Bronstein was asked 'How the Tal won his games'!? 'It is a simple! He put his Pieces at the Center of the Board, and sacrificed them somewhere!..'

awardchess.8.Tal Memorial.2 Winner: #1 TheChessGym (1900) TD: AWARDCHESS Started on Jun 16, 2008 @ 4:16pm Players: 4 Time Control: 3 days/move Max Group Size: 4 Rating Range: Open # Advance: 2 Tie Breaks: Yes Points Available: 209 Games Rated: Yes TOURNAMENT FINISHED! Tournament Stats Starting Players: 4 Completed Games: 14 (tournament is 100% complete) Eliminated Round 1: 2 (50% of field) Games in Round 1: 12 Eliminated Round 2: 2 (50% of field) Games in Round 2: 2 Players Withdrawn: 0 (0%) # Timeouts: 0 (0%) Remaining Players: 1 (25%) Remaining Games: 0 (current round) Average Rating: 1745 Biggest Upset: 1667 defeats 1688 Comments: Edit | Delete by AWARDCHESS - 7 months ago Los Angeles United States Member Since: May 2008Member Points: 9334 The chess and partners, woman and friends loved Tal! When he died, the Moscow Leaders do not attended his last roadway! Just 2 ex-wives, son, a few friends... Who care? Are we careless?.. Take a second of silence!.. Let's play just chess games! awardchess.8. Tal Memorial.2 TD. Grigoriy Burtayev Greg. Los Angeles

awardchess.44.Tal Memorial.1 Winner: #1 AWARDCHESS (1658) TD: AWARDCHESS Started on Jun 9, 2008 @ 9:26am Players: 5 Time Control: 3 days/move Max Group Size: 5 Rating Range: Open # Advance: 2 Tie Breaks: Yes Points Available: 231 Games Rated: Yes TOURNAMENT FINISHED! Tournament Stats Starting Players: 5 Completed Games: 22 (tournament is 100% complete) Eliminated Round 1: 3 (60% of field) Games in Round 1: 20 Eliminated Round 2: 2 (40% of field) Games in Round 2: 2 Players Withdrawn: 0 (0%) # Timeouts: 8 (36%) Remaining Players: 1 (20%) Remaining Games: 0 (current round) Average Rating: 1756 Biggest Upset: 1672 defeats 1837 Join me at all my tournaments: awardchess! Good luck to you! Greg. Los Angeles