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| Oct-02-09 | | WhiteRook48: Tal is a genius! |
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| Jun-12-10 | | ForeverYoung: Players like Tal inspire me! |
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| Dec-23-11 | | palagalaako: Hmmm..why did Black resign after the 27th move of white?is it because white will be up 2 pawns in the endgame (like if 27 ... gxf6 28 Qg7+ and forking)?or am i missing something here.. 0.o |
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Dec-23-11
 | | AylerKupp: <palagalaako> After 27...gxf6 (Black's best) 28.Qg7+ Kd6 29.Qxh8 White will have Q+6P vs. R+N+4P, a winning advantage. True, Black can capture White's Pa2 but after 29...Rxa2 30.bxc6 bxc6 31.Qxh7 it's Q+4P vs. R+N+2P, still a winning advantage. Note that in particular that Black is probably unable to stop White's h-pawn from queening.
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| Dec-23-11 | | palagalaako: Oh yeah! Thanks for that continuation.. Hmm, that really is an overwhelming advantage, plus i think Tal plays the endgames really good after looking at Nikitin vs Tal (1959)..could you suggest any more sacrificial games like this one? |
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Jun-01-14
 | | Phony Benoni: OK. I freely admit I thought I had seen every possible Tal pun. I was wrong. Don't know how much I like this one, but it is ingenious. Sort of like the game. You'd think that Tal couldn't possibly surprise anyone any more, and off he goes again. And in a Candidates Match of all places. |
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| Jun-01-14 | | Mudphudder: Geezus Christmas. By move 18 this game already looks over. |
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Jun-01-14
 | | piltdown man: A dreadful pun. But they're the best kind. |
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| Jun-01-14 | | RookFile: What a wonderful game by Tal. I was unfamiliar with this one. |
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Jun-01-14
 | | al wazir: What was wrong with 19...Qa5 ? |
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| Jun-01-14 | | Catfriend: <al wazir> The threat is 20. Re1, with the idea of Bd6+ and Qe8#. Seems winning. |
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| Jun-01-14 | | morfishine: Wickedly powerful game. Speaking of Teleportation or Telekinesis, its not hard to imagine Tal glaring at the board on move 16, when the rook moves on its own, slowly at first while almost toppling over, then suddenly it shoots forward landing on <e6> causing the Black pawn to shift backwards onto <e7> After all, we can't expect telekinesis to also place the captured pawn back in the box ***** |
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| Jun-01-14 | | kereru: After 17...Kd8 white just has to take the draw.
17...Kf8!?, which more or less commits to saccing the queen, was a brave move by Portisch, but it backfired. Had Portisch not bravely avoided the draw, nobody would be singing Tal's praises. They'd be criticising him for forcing a draw in a slightly better position before the game had even really started. |
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| Jun-01-14 | | thegoodanarchist: A most excellent pun! |
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Jun-02-14
| | al wazir: <Catfriend: The threat is 20. Re1, with the idea of Bd6+ and Qe8#. Seems winning.> Yes, that works. Thanks. |
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| Jun-02-14 | | kevin86: Then there is the story of a man who tried to teleport himself to a baseball game and became an infield fly. OUCH! |
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| Jun-04-14 | | thegoodanarchist: <kevin86: Then there is the story of a man who tried to teleport himself to a baseball game and became an infield fly. OUCH!> Groan! But still appreciated :) |
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| Jul-14-14 | | DanielBryant: According to The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal, Tal was taken aback by Portisch's choice of the Caro-Kann here, admitting he had not even considered the possibility in preparations. |
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| Feb-28-15 | | Whitehat1963: Typical of Tal. Relentless, powerful, punishing attack. |
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| Dec-17-16 | | N.O.F. NAJDORF: There are so many games in which black goes wrong by playing Qb6. Compare Euwe v Fischer, 1957
and Alekhine v Lasker, Zürich 1934 |
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| Dec-17-16 | | RookFile: Black's setup is similar to the Fort Knox defense in the French Defense. Black has had some success in trading off a couple of minor pieces to lighten his defensive task. A good move is 13.... g6, even though it weakens the dark squares. Black is even willing to trade off the dark squared bishops because of his previous success in swapping off minor pieces. For example:
13.... g6 14. Bh6 Bf8 15. Bxf8 Kxf8
click for larger viewBlack is ok here. |
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Jun-05-17
 | | tpstar: Splendid speculative sacrifice on e6. Here the three pieces (RBN) can never coordinate against the White Queen. Tal must have been an incredibly fearsome opponent OTB. |
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| Apr-16-18 | | anjumskhan: To me the point of BXNf3 was to play e5 as strongly as possible but alas that didn't happen. Black's subsequent play contradict his own opening ideas. |
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Jul-19-18
 | | saffuna: Tal was surprised by Portisch "blatantly copying Botvinnk," so avoided the usual lines. "And you can see how it turned out. " |
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| Mar-20-24 | | notyetagm: How Did Mikhail Tal's Opponents Sleep at Night? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHH... |
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