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| Mar-08-05 | | aw1988: An Orc, eh?
A wizard is never overbearing, AJ Goldsby, nor is he light. He annotates as much as he wants to. :) |
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| Mar-08-05 | | Saruman: <aw1988> Have you already forgot what I told you about qouting Ian McKellan! :-) |
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Mar-09-05
 | | LIFE Master AJ: <Saruman>
< "AJ" You have yet to master your life. >
(and) I will bet the only think you have mastered is a past-time / personal bad habit ... that I cannot discuss here. |
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| Apr-14-05 | | Halfpricemidge: 15. Rb1!! is pretty hard to find. |
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Apr-14-05
| | LIFE Master AJ: To Saruman "the only THING"
(see above)
<Halfpricemidge>
Agreed!! Delightful move, yes? |
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| Jun-29-05 | | buck2: this game is in the sprit of how E.Tate plays |
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| Oct-27-05 | | TalEl: Super stuff from Tal!! The thing one as to realise about Tal is that he makes sacrifices that are difficult for the opponent to solve over the board. The myriad of complications always seem to overwhelm the opponent. Its like using "the Force"
Of course after playing the game, the opponent often says "oh I should have played that move and I would have beaten Tal's combination" But by then it is simply to late.
As the saying goes, minutes of play and years of analysis are NOT the same thing. |
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| Oct-28-05 | | Averageguy: An examplary exploitation of attacking a king in the centre. |
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| Dec-20-05 | | DeepBlade: The 4.f4 move is the nicest move to play, some kind of Kings Gambit with Sicilian development is my favorite setup. Typical Tal, playing sacrifical just to open files for his Rooks, followed by a tactical cresendo. |
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Jan-04-06
 | | Pawn and Two: Fritz 9 at 19 ply depth, rates 12. Qe2-h5 g7-g6 13. Qh5-h3 as favoring White (1.18). After 12. Ng5xf7, Fritz rates White as being favored by (1.10) - 20 ply depth - then gives ...Ke8xf7 13. f4-f5 Nd7xe5 (not dxe5). Several people have commented that finding the move 12. Ng5xf7 was not that difficult. It is interesting to hear what Tal had to say about move 12. Ng5xf7. Tal stated that it was not until he found the move 15. Rb1!, in his preliminary calculations, before he could decide to sacrifice the knight at move 12! Fritz 9 agrees that at move 15, R-b1 is the strongest move. Tal's notes to this game leave a little puzzle for us. After his 29th move, he states that instead of a quiet, purely technical realization of his advantage, he decided to include his King in the attack, planning to march him along the route g1-f2-g3-h4-h5-h6. In the end this was successful, but Tal states that on the way Simagin could have gained the draw. Can anyone find where Simagin missed a draw?
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| Jan-30-06 | | whatthefat: This game is incredible. I can't possibly imagine someone exploding on to the chess scene like this. Honestly, can you imagine if a game like this just appeared, and 4 years later they're a world champion?? It's almost as though this game contains 100% pure Tal concentrate - just add water. |
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| Jan-30-06 | | Elrathia Kingi: The opening code for this game is incorrect. The B06 code links to the Robatsch. |
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| Mar-01-06 | | MorphyMatt: Wow! 15. ♖b1!! |
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| Jul-16-06 | | capatal: http://www.angelfire.com/games4/lif... <LIFE Master AJ>
Well done with The Tal One! |
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Jul-27-06
| | LIFE Master AJ: http://www.angelfire.com/games4/lif... (I just re-did the diagrams. One of the kibitzers here had complained about them, and my daughter confirmed that the former "NEON, DAY-GLO" colors ... were a bit hard on the eyes.) |
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| Jul-28-06 | | TheSlid: Nice work <AJ> I, for my part, like your annotation style. Tal remains an Iconic figure, a reminder of the realities of the Soviet age. |
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Jul-31-06
| | LIFE Master AJ: <TheSlid>
Thank you ... so VERY much!!!
It is also good to hear from you ... I had not seen you comment on a game in a very long while! God bless ...
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| Sep-29-06 | | Zorts: 21.Rd1!! is even better (wins quicker). |
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| Oct-04-06 | | Zorts: For Black, 16...Ke7 was much better. As Tal said himself, "There are two kinds of sacrifices: those that are sound...and mine." |
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| Oct-04-06 | | whatthefat: <Zorts>
Would you be able to provide some analysis? |
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| Oct-06-06 | | Zorts: 16. Qc4+ (Ke7) 17. Ba3+ (Kd8)18. Rxb1 Bxa3 19. Qb3 Be7...then 20. Qxb8 Rb8!! Without being able to give check against the secure black king on d8 White doesn't have as many good moves. |
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| Oct-11-06 | | Zorts: 16. Qc4+ Ke7 17. Ba3+ Kd8 18. Rxb1 Bxa3 19. Rxb7 Rb8 Okay, maybe not...but if Tal had suddenly took over the black pieces at move 16, he could probably draw if not win. |
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| Feb-17-07 | | Hawks: 15.Rb1 Why would he give up a rook for nothing in return? |
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| Feb-17-07 | | whatthefat: <Hawks: 15.Rb1 Why would he give up a rook for nothing in return?> What do you mean? It picks up the black queen, and gives a significant initiative for the invested white material. |
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| Feb-17-07 | | extremepleasure: Hello there.
I don't think that this is a very notable game, despite all of these sacrifices Tal made. All the sacrifices he made were easy to find especially if we consider the fact that black makes such a silly move like h6 (instead of trying to complete his development) when his king is stuck in the center, he is far behind in development and his opponent already opened files for his rooks (he was asking for trouble so to speak). I know I'll make the Tal fans here angry (I do apologize to them) but I do have the opinion that Tal was a much better player in the later years of his career (particularly in 1980s) rather than the early years (which he played this game) and the years he was the world champion. IMO this game he played below is one of the finest achivements in his chess career. Tal vs Hjartarson, 1987
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sac: 12.Nxf7