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Mikhail Tal speaks before a rapt audience
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All 15 Tal prize-winning masterpieces
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Thank you for posting this.
I go back and forth when trying to decide who my favorite chess player of all time was, but Tal is always number 1 or 2. His book on his 1960 match against Botvinnik is also my first or second favorite chess book (the other is Bronstein's book on Zurich 1953). And my favorite chess quote is from Tal, when he said, "You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5 and the path out is only wide enough for one."
Four years of amazing chess left in him before he passed away.
The Wizard of Riga had a rather deep, rough voice.