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| May-10-20 | | carpovius: Fisher needed 13 yrs more to win WC, Tal - only 1. |
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| Aug-02-20 | | talhal20: If anybody could play chess like Paul Morphy it was Tal. |
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Aug-02-20
 | | Sally Simpson: ***
I can see the point of view but most Masters could and can turn on the Morphy in them if given the chance. Topalov vs Speelman, 1995 Tal's gifted play took Morphy up a level.
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| Nov-26-22 | | ChessIsLife159753: Absolutely fantastic game. 21...f5!! is a stunner: Tal doesn't want an open f- or h-file, but an open g-file! |
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Nov-26-22
 | | perfidious: <naisortep: Video of the game where Tal pretends to play c6 is available....> In due time, Tal would often push that cheeky c-pawn the one square only; by the 1980s, the Caro-Kann became a staple of his repertoire. |
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Nov-26-22
 | | fredthebear: Not my definition of staple.
1.e4 vs Tal:
1...c5 345
1...e5 94
1...c6 29
1...e6 13
1...d6 8
1...Nf6 7
1...g6 5
1...d5 1 |
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Nov-27-22
| | perfidious: <fredthebore> needs a lesson in the subtleties of English. #fredthenonentityowned |
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Nov-27-22
| | fredthebear: Another personal attack, has nothing to do with chess. This misbehavior has been allowed on this website for years. Folks, don't take no crap off the big perd. |
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| Dec-11-24 | | ColdSong: Painful.Fischer plays something really dangerous without knowing it very well. |
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| Dec-11-24 | | Petrosianic: <ColdSong: Painful.Fischer plays something really dangerous without knowing it very well.> No, Fischer knew both the Sicilian and this variation very well. He just got outplayed. |
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| Dec-11-24 | | ColdSong: I have no doubt you're not mad. |
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| Dec-12-24 | | ColdSong: You don't try much to understand what I mean,and let you be idiot just for the pleasure to say no.But all right,the reader will be free to know what to think of your opinion.And by the way,the most courageous are invited to admire your brilliant mind to the game Spassky Seirawan you know.Now please go jump in the lake. |
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| Jun-01-25 | | Zugzwangovich: In his book "Mikhail Tal's Best Games of Chess", P.H. Clarke wrote that 25...Rg8 would have been a ”hasty move” that "bungles everything". Years later, in "How to Beat Bobby Fischer", Edmar Mednis wrote, "Of course, 25...Rg8 also won". Kinda seems one of them was off base here. |
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Jun-01-25
| | perfidious: <naisortep: Video of the game where Tal pretends to play c6 is available here - although it might expire on Twitter. But its bound to pop up somewhere else on the internet.> While I have nothing to do with Twitter if at all possible, Tal's stutter step with the c-pawn can be found in the early stages of the video below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fer... |
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Jun-01-25
 | | beatgiant: <Zugzwangovich> White has a counter-combination with 25...Rg8 26. Qxf4, but I can't quite make it work so it looks like Clarke is the one who was off base. For example 25...Rg8 26. Qxf4 Bxc5+ 27. Nxc5 Rxg2+ 28. Kf1 <Qg7> is one refutation. White will have to drop some material to stop the attack. |
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| Jun-02-25 | | Zugzwangovich: <beatgiant> FWIW, Clarke's analysis went "25...Rg8 26. Qxf4 Rxg2+ 27. Kf1 exf4 28. Rxe7 Qb8 29. Bd4+ Kg8 30. c5+ Kf8 31. Rf7+ Ke8 32. Re1+ Be4 33. Nb6, and White should win." |
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Jun-03-25
| | beatgiant: <Zugzwangovich> Even in Clarke's line, Black can improve: 25...Rg8 26. Qxf4 Rxg2+ 27. Kf1 exf4 28. Rxe7 Qb8? Here, <28...Qxe7 29. Bxe7 h5> and Black is better in this endgame. Following Clarke to the end with 28...Qb8, then 29. Bd4+ Kg8 30. c5+ Kf8 31. Rf7+ Ke8 32. Re1+ Be4 33. Nb6 gives a complex position, and it's not at all obvious that White's winning. In fact, the engine suggests 33...Qd8 and claims an eval of 0.0. |
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| Jun-04-25 | | Zugzwangovich: <beatgiant> Thank you. I really appreciate your help in enlightening this poor patzer. |
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| Jul-22-25 | | HealTheWorld: Fischer's 20 P-QB4? was probably the losing move, because it hems in his king-bishop and wastes time. Tal's ensuing pawn sacrifices 20...P-KN3!; 21 PxP, P-KB4!! exposes his own king to attack but at the same time prepares his king-knight's file for the mating net we shall come to at game's end. Fischer, desperate now, tries to attack the Black Queen on his 24th-26th moves, to no avail. Finally, by the end of the game, we see a linear mating net prepared by Tal. The threat is 34...R-KR3+!; 35 Q-R5 (forced), Q-N7+!; 36 K-R4, RxQ+!; 37 BxR, QxRP#. And there is no good defense. |
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| Jul-22-25 | | djvanscoy: <perfidious: ...the early stages of the video below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fer...> Specifically, the footage of this game begins at about 2:11 of that "Bobby Fischer Tribute rare footage" YouTube video. Tal switches his move from 1...c6 to 1...c5 with a little grin, which Fischer ignores. A user on chess.com has claimed that Tal once said in an interview that he played the Sicilian when he needed a draw and the Caro-Kann when he needed a win -- although I am unable to verify that Tal made such a remark. It seems that Tal had only played the Caro-Kann once as Black as of the time the present game took place, in E Azerbajevs vs Tal, 1955. |
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Jul-22-25
| | perfidious: <djvanscoy....It seems that Tal had only played the Caro-Kann once as Black as of the time the present game took place....> As he commented years on, according to Cafferty in his annotations to V Heuer vs Tal, 1972, the second occasion on which Tal pushed that c-pawn but one square. |
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| Jul-24-25 | | Petrosianic: <HealTheWorld: Fischer's 20 P-QB4? was probably the losing move, because it hems in his king-bishop and wastes time.> According to Mednis, 11. P-B5? was the losing move. Correct was 11. P-QR3 B-N2, and Black has equalized, but White is still in the game. |
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| Jul-24-25 | | HealTheWorld: @Petrosianic Looking at it now, 11 P-B5?! was definitely not a good move, that's certain. The pawn at King Bishop 4 is preventing the Black KP from advancing to attack the White king-knight - which Tal in fact does do, on both White knights, wasting Fischer's time retreating. If, as you suggested, 11 P-QR3, yes then that solves the advances of the black QRP and KP. After 11...B-N2! there is a whole new ball game to reckon with though. Black's immediate threat looks like the white king's pawn, which is pinned against the white Queen (12...BxKP; 13 NxB, NxN; 14 QxN, P-Q4! is gonna be dangerous for White). After 12 R-K1, QN-Q2; 13 B-Q2, both sides have about equal chances. |
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Jul-25-25
| | beatgiant: White could try the piece sac 12. fxe6!? bxc3 13. exf7+, although the compensation is unclear and probably not quite enough. |
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| Jul-25-25 | | Petrosianic: Then Fischer wouldn't have played it unless he was already desperate. He hated unclear lines. |
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