Mikhail Tal vs Garry Kasparov (1980)

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Mikhail Tal vs Garry Kasparov
Soviet Union tt (1980)
Caro-Kann Defense: Classical Variation. Main lines (B18) · 0-1

White to move.

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0-1

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Given 90 times; par: 59 [what's this?]

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Dec-02-03		jaime gallegos: Zungzwang at the end !

Dec-02-03		Catfriend: I think it's "zugzwang".. Anyway, y zugzwang? White must play 41.Kc3 Ra2 42.Kb3 Re2 43. Bc3 f5! Tal loses, that's right, but I wouldn't call it zugzwang. A good game, though Tal, not at his best, didn't play strongly.

Sep-27-04		ConLaMismaMano: Yes, it's zugzwang.

Oct-03-04		Giancarlo: Hmm, an older Tal was never able to beat kaspy. Wonder if he played tal in his prime...

Oct-03-04		Shadout Mapes: Kasparov hadn't even been born when Tal became became world champ. It's impressive that an aged Tal could still play so well though, I think white had a nice position after 19.Kb1.

Oct-03-04		ughaibu: Forget it, 1988 Tal won the world championship ahead of Kasparov.

Oct-03-04		WMD: I seem to remember that Tal did beat Kasparov in a blitz game in 1991 or 1992.

Oct-03-04		Giancarlo: Well, I was talking about Standard.

Feb-28-06		zev22407: 22)N:f5 a moove in the style of the young Tal ,he sacrifices a piece to get to the king but Kasparov was able to stand the attack.

Mar-05-06		DeepBlade: Yea what saved Kasparov was the Black f2 pawn which sneaked through the center

Apr-17-07		chesskoff: Kasparov beat Tal with the same defense his mentor, Botvinnik, used in the World Championship a generation earlier.

Oct-06-07		talisman: i wonder if tal ever wondered "why so many caro-kanns me".for instance,he played over twice as many caro-kanns with white as kasparov.

Nov-09-07		sallom89: nice game by Kaspy.

Sep-25-09		Eggman: <<Forget it, 1988 Tal won the world championship ahead of Kasparov.>> Ugh. I'm sure you mean the world BLITZ championship.

Sep-25-09		slomarko: there is nothing like replying to 5 years old posts.

Sep-26-09		walker: there is...stalking people's replies

Sep-26-09		grkoste: "there is nothing like replying to 5 years old posts." As silly as talking about a chess game played 29 years ago.

Sep-26-09		Eggman: <<there is nothing like replying to 5 years old posts>> Hey, if the post is still there, and still misleading people, why not correct it?

Dec-30-09		jimmzeh: <As silly as talking about a chess game played 29 years ago.> No, because modern chess is timeless. Games played 150 years ago still have value today.

Jul-17-11		ColeTrane: it is zungzwang

Jul-26-11		zealouspawn: zugzwang is when white could hold the position if he wasn't required to move. In this case, that's not true. Black has a winning plan if white can't move in ..f5 and moving the king up via ..Ke5, etc

Nov-07-20		fisayo123: This was a training game to help Tal prepare for his impending matchup in the Candidates vs Polugaevsky

Oct-27-24		ColdSong: A very,very long time ago,when Kasparov played the Caro Kan.

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