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| Feb-22-06 | | dakgootje: Yes indeed a brilliant and truly beautiful game by Tal. But imagine you are given the chance of playing great Tal and you get slaughtered this way... |
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| Feb-22-06 | | Jim Bartle: I'd would have played it out to mate and then asked him to autograph the scoresheet. |
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Feb-22-06
 | | WannaBe: So typical of Tal's play, sac'ing pieces left and right! <Jim Bartle> Since the game was played out to mate, does that mean you're NN? |
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| Feb-22-06 | | Jim Bartle: Unmasked at last! Yes, I have lost brilliant games to all the great masters over the centuries. (Sort of like the Rowan and Martin joke:
Rowan: You know overpopulation is a big problem. Do you know a woman gives birth every 8 minutes in this world. What should we do? Martin: We've got to find that woman and stop her.) |
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| Aug-13-06 | | KingG: <b) 18...Nf6 19.Qg3 Kf8!? (19...Rg8 20.Re5 and white has full compensation, and stands well) 20.Rxe6 Nbd7 21.Qf4 Kg8 seems to leave black with some advantage as I can't find a good way forward for white. 22.Be4!? might offer good chances though.> According to Kasparov, 19.Be4! is the best move, and he thinks White has compensation. |
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| Nov-18-06 | | whatthefat: <KingG>
Thanks for that. |
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| Dec-10-07 | | onemorechessplayer: All moves after 12-th are forced-Tal is just renewing the mate threat with sacrificing piece after piece. Truly beautiful and eyecatching! Real classic! |
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| Aug-05-08 | | Sem: Downright murder, only you don't go to jail. |
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| Nov-27-08 | | ChessYouGood: This game illustrates how deeply Tal understood openings and how deeply he understood the concept of initiative in chess. |
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| Mar-24-09 | | WhiteRook48: sacrifices like a maniac |
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| May-02-09 | | WhiteRook48: Tal is attacking like mad! |
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| May-28-09 | | erwinkru71939: It´s a hearth attack. Full of sacrifice and wonderfull mate. |
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| Apr-18-12 | | chaamjamal: I ran this through Shredder and right up to 13. Qg4 they were even but when black played Qb6 the advantage swung way over to white. If you change Qb6 to Qxe5 then the advantage goes to black. |
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| Jun-23-12 | | screwdriver: No wonder there is a Tal Memorial Tournament played every year. I don't think any world champion attacked like Tal did. |
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| Aug-04-13 | | Sem: Reminds me of Rudolf Spielmann who said: 'If I would get the positions Alekhine gets, I would also see these combinations. The only thing is: I don't get them.' |
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Aug-28-15
 | | Alex Schindler: I don't know how I've never seen this one. It's mindblowing how what looks like a vanilla sicilian position yields this one-sided massacre because of, as far as I can tell, the singular mistake of Qb6. The knight sac is speculative at best-- if you're Tal, you play it (maybe unless you're playing another very strong GM?), because there's a pawn on e6 and you do not accept pawns on e6. But it doesn't look that good until Qb6, and then the rest of the game is a foregone conclusion and Tal played it like a computer. |
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| Mar-06-18 | | bkpov: Comparing Morphy to anyone is blasphemy. Tal was brilliant but see his record against Korchnoi and Petrosian. |
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| May-24-20 | | carpovius: Amazing! |
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| Mar-15-21 | | Gaito: Fifteen years ago on Jan-08-06, syracrophy wrote: "10...Nfd7?! is useless and loss of time...Correct was 10...Bb4!".
I suspect that syracrophy was missing something, because 10...Bb4 seems to be a blunder, e.g. 11.exf6 Bxc3+ 12.bxc3 Qxc3+ "winning the rook". Possibly this kibitzer just overlooked that after 13.Qd2 Qxa1+ 14.Kf2 Black seems to have a lost position, even though he is an exchange and a pawn ahead (diagram):
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BLACK TO MOVE
White has many nasty threats, among others, 15.Bxb5+ winning the queen.
If 14...O-O, then 15.fxg7 Re8 (if 15...Kxg7 16.Bh6+ wins outright) 16.Bxb5! Qxh1 17.Bxe8 Bb7 (diagram) 
click for larger view18.Bxf7+! Kxf7 19.Qf4+ Kxg7 20.Nxe6+ Kg6 21.Qf6+ Kh5 22.Ng7+ Kg4 23.Qf4 mate (diagram) 
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| Mar-15-21 | | Gaito: Now the position where Tal sacrificed a knight:
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WHITE TO MOVE
The psychological aspect of the game is important. Here Tal played 12.Nxe6?!, perhaps relying that his opponent was an unknown amateur or maybe a patzer. The sacrifice is incorrect of course, and I really doubt that Tal would have played like that against Spassky, Fischer or Korchnoi, for example. Tal's opponent is given as NN (meaning "no name", which implies that his/her name is unimportant), very likely a weak amateur. There is no information as to whether this game belongs to a simultaneous display, because if not, then how did NN earn the right to play a game against Tal? I suspect that Tal did not just play games against any unknown pedestrian happening to pass by and challenging him to a game of chess. Good moves for White in the position of the diagram are, for example 12.Qh5 or 12.Qg4. On Jan-08-06 (15 years ago) kibitzer syracrophy wrote that White ought to have played 12.a3. My humble opinion is that White need not be afraid of the move ...b4, so that 12.a3 is unnecessary.
For example: 12.Qg4! Nxe5?! (or else 12...b4? 13.Nxe6! fxe6 14.Qxe6+ and mate follows) 13.Bxb5+! axb5 14.Nxe6! Qb6 15.Rhe1! Nxg4 16.Nc7 mate (diagram)
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| Apr-05-24 | | Messiah: I just cannot understand why Justin cannot play like this when he is the Wonderkid, the Mozart of Chess, the Crush of Caïssa, the karpov on Steroids, the Lord and Saviour of Chess, the Fun and Wit Chess Needed So Much, the Sexiest Man Alive, and last, but not least, the True World Champion Whose Throne Is Usurped By Ding Liren. |
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Apr-05-24
 | | Teyss: Hi Messiah,
Maybe because Carlsen's opponents mostly in the 2700+ range are slightly better than NN?"Trick Or Treat": a timely pun since it's Hallo... never mind. I understand Trick (The Magician) but Treat? Oh well, the game is one. This is probably a simul. The only potential reason why Black didn't play 13...Qxe5 holding, apart from the fact NN is generally lousy, is he was concerned to have his Queen in the middle of the board in front of the mighty Tal and afraid of a swift reply just after a Knight sac... which is what he got. Beautiful combination. 14. White to play: future Friday or Saturday puzzle (14.Rd6! and 16.Bc4! are difficult to see).
17. White to play: future Monday or Tuesday puzzle. |
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| Apr-05-24 | | goodevans: <KingG: <... The correct move was 13...Qxe5! and white has no compensation for the piece sacrifice> I wouldn't say that. After 14.Bd3!, White has definite compensation. Whether it is quite sufficient or not, i'm not sure yet, but Black has to be extrmely accurate to maintain any advantage.> The four games in the database here featuring 13...Qxe5 serve to illustrate how precipitious the Black position is even with the correct defence: F Olafsson vs Polugaevsky, 1978 ½-½ G Garcia vs Van Wely, 1995 1-0 B Jonasson vs J Yrjola, 1986 1-0 P Whitehead vs D Verduga, 1978 1-0 |
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Apr-05-24
 | | offramp: Nxe6: <just do it!>. |
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Apr-05-24
 | | playground player: Amazing! Tal's games are always a treat. |
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