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What is Your Favorite Tal Game?

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KeepTheFunkAlive

Tal is my favorite player. I love his style and going through some of his games (usually analyzed by someone else) has made me better at tactics. So show me some of your favorite games of his!

 

Please post me a link or pgn! 

KeepTheFunkAlive

Seriously... Nobody? Well here are some of mine. 

 

I annotated this one with some comments and added lines, so lower level players like me can actually see what's going on. I used stockfish in SCID for some analysis help. Tal definitely had to hold on and defend for a sec before he unleashed on Dudley (one of the reasons I like to play the Marshall attack in the Ruy lopez if i can)

 

Absolutely insane sacrifices in this one (to me at least). This game is about as exciting as chess can get:

 
This one is annotated by Khalifman(?) Not sure, cuz it was already included in a database I downloaded. I also added a line for if 19...Rxf7.