| Oct-19-05 | | Poisonpawns: Strange game,strange moves 14.Bf1!? I guess Larsen realized that his bishop would be worse than tals and wanted to trade it.Good idea,i guess but look at the squares around his King now.Black seems to be winning here at several points.I dont know how Larsen escapes at move 37. white seems totally lost.Larsen does a good job creating perpetual and mate threats.For instance
if 37..Kf8? white mates in 6 after 38.Rb8 on 38..a2 39.Ne7+ Kh7 40.Rg8 Nd4+! 41.Ke4 Re2+! 42.Kd3(kxd4? mate in 4)Nf5! 43.Ra8 Rxf2 44.Nxf5 Rxf5 45.Rxa2 Rxd5+ with a superior rook endgame for black but this is very hard to find at the board.Very good game I would love to see more detailed analysis because it seems like the win for black is there,but great defense by Larsen. |
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| Jul-16-08 | | 4tmac: WHITE TO MOVE & DRAW 
click for larger view/ 81. P-g5 K-f3 82. N-h7 (these two white moves are "only moves" as are many others in whites fine defense) |
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Jan-31-10
 | | waddayaplay: Tal and his second thought the ending with R+P vs N+P could be won. They had found the exact same position in Averbakh's end game manual where the result is given as a draw, but thought they had found a refutation. However, it wasn't so easy to refute. (Life and games of Tal, p.301) Fundamental chess ending (2009), p. 262, confirms it is a draw and gives the following position, at move 58, as an important drawing formation (per Averbakh). 
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| Jan-15-12 | | Karpova: The interesting story goes on - the 8th game was adjourned in a drawish position and after this draw (resumed after adjournement of game 8), the question arose what to do in case of the score remaining level after games 9 & 10 also? Mikhail Tal: <Thus we were back where we started, and everything depended on the last two games. And if the score should be 1-1? The seconds and the chief controller, the likeable and witty Austrian Dorazil, discussed this, for the moment theoretical but perfectly real possibility. They could not come to an agreement (playing to the first win was not practised at that time in the Candidates matches, and first occurred 9 years later in a Ladies' Match) and so Dorazil made the following suggestion:'It will all be very simple. I will stand Larsen and Tal side by side, and give each of them a sheep's bone, and then bring in my dog. The one he goes up to will go through to the final!!' The controller's decision was 'accepted' with delight, and play continued.> From pages 301-302 in Tal, Mikhail 'The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal', London, 1997. In the end, this was not necessary since Tal won game 10.
Game Collection: WCC Index [Tal-Larsen 1965] |
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| Sep-13-15 | | machomortensen: Larsen gave 28.-,Dd4 29.Sxc8,Dxe3 30.fxe3,Txc2 31.Tb8,Kg7 32 Sxd6,Txd2 33.Se8+,Kg6 34.Tc6 with a draw as 34.-,Tf2 is met by 35.e5! ("Schack Kalender 1965 - 1966" (S)) |
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Jun-08-17
| | Plaskett: The ending is looked at in some detail by Dvoretsky. |
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| Jun-13-17 | | Straclonoor: After 51th white move Lomonosov TB7 gives - draw |
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Aug-23-18
 | | Honza Cervenka: What's wrong with 29...Rxe3? After 30.Rxc8+ Bd8! 31.Rxd8+ Kg7 32.fxe3 Qxb6 or 32.Nbc4 Re1+! 33.Rxe1 Nxc4 black keeps material advantage. |
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| Aug-23-18 | | Olavi: In the Life and Games of Mikhail Tal he remarks that they took turns blundering. |
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| Aug-23-18 | | Boomie: <Honza Cervenka: What's wrong with 29...Rxe3?> So unusual to answer a Honza question instead of the other way around. 29...Rxe3 is winning. So what did Tal miss? Perhaps the nuance of Qb5 with Nd2 threatening mate on f1. For example, 32. Nbc4 Re1+ 33. Rxe1 Nxc4 34. Nf3 g4 35. Re4 h5 36. Ne1 Qb5 
click for larger viewAnd strangely, the threat of Nd2 is decisive. |
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| Aug-24-18 | | WorstPlayerEver: Weird enough both players follow the same line as SF9. Curious. 48... Ra7 seems the only way to keep the d6 pawn: 
click for larger view49. Nf5 Ra6 50. Kf4 Kg6 51. Ne7+ Kf7 52. Nf5 Rb6 
click for larger viewSeems Black can't get through, because they can't defend both pawns and make progression. |
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| Aug-24-18 | | WorstPlayerEver: Kinda figured out 40... a2 is actually a blunder. 40... Rxf2+ 41. Kg5 Nd4 and Black is winning.
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| Aug-24-18 | | WorstPlayerEver: PS NB 42. Rg8 now is met by 42... Rf5+ 43. Nxf5 Nf3+ 44. Kf4 Kxg8
click for larger viewA very nice tactic! |
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| Aug-24-18 | | WorstPlayerEver: If White keeps their King in the center, ironically, a3-a2 is decisive; Rg8 is now worthless, because Black has Rxf6 for free 40...Rxf2+ 41. Ke4 a2
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| Jun-15-20 | | Straclonoor: I wanna add some analysis
Analysis by Stockfish 060620 64 BMI2:
1. -+ (-7.97): 37...g4+ 38.Ke4 Rd4+ 39.Kf5 Rxd5+ 40.Kf4 Rd4+ 41.Kg5 Rb4 42.Rd1 Rb5+ 43.Kh4 a2 44.Ne7+ Kf8 45.Rxd6 Rb8 46.Ra6 a1Q 47.Rxa1 Nxa1 48.Kxg4 Nb3 49.Nd5 Nd2 50.Kf4 Ke8 51.h4 Kd7 52.Ke5 Rb5 53.Kd4 Nb3+ 54.Ke4 Nc5+ 55.Kd4 Kd6 56.Nc3 Rb4+ 57.Ke3 Ke5 58.f3 Rb2 59.h5 Rb3 60.Kd2 Ra3 61.Kc2 Ra6 62.Kd2 Kxf6 63.Nb5 Ne6 64.Ke3 Kg5 65.Kd3 Kxh5 66.Kc4 Rb6 67.Nc3 Rc6+ 68.Kd3 Ra6 69.Nb1 Kh6 70.Ke3 Kg7 71.Kd3 Ra2 72.Nc3 Ra3 73.Kc4 2. -+ (-4.39): 37...h6 38.Ne7+ Kh7 39.Rb8 g4+ 40.Kxg4 Rxf2 41.Rg8 Rxf6 42.Ra8 Rf2 43.Kh3 Rd2 44.Ra7 Rd4 45.Ra6 Rd3 46.Ra7 Ne3 47.Ra6 Kg7 48.Rxd6 Kf8 49.Rd7 a2 50.Ra7 a1Q 51.Rxa1 Kxe7 52.Ra4 Kf8 53.Ra5 Kg7 54.d6 Rxd6 55.Ra3 Nc4 56.Ra4 Ne5 57.Re4 Kf6 58.Re2 Rd3 59.Kh4 Rd5 60.Kh5 Kg7 61.Kh4 Kg6 62.Kh3 Kg5 63.Kg2 Nc4 64.Re4 Nd6 65.Ra4 Rd3 66.Ra5+ Kg6 67.Ra4 Rd2+ 68.Kf3 Rxh2 69.Ra6 Rd2 70.Ke3 |
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