This collection is part of Game Collection: Tal's Tournament and Matches 1949-1973

These are all the games Mikhail Tal played at the <Reykjavik Student Olympiad 1957>, in correct round order.

(11-26 July)

Tal scored +7 -0 =3 on 1st board. According to <Olimpbase>, this gave Tal the gold medal, but according to http://www.suomenshakki.fi/arkisto/..., the medal rankings were "calculated directly from points scored and not, as usual, by percentages." In this case, Miroslav Filip, who played three more games than Tal, would have received the gold medal on 1st board.

The USSR finished 1st, over Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, USA, Romania, East Germany and Iceland.

<Tal> rested during rounds one (USSR vs Sweden), four (USSR vs Mongolia), and eleven (USSR vs Ecuador).

Thanks to User: Chessdreamer and User: Alien Math for excellent research and fact checking on this game- Tal vs F Olafsson, 1957.

Sources:

Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," pp.184-185; http://www.olimpbase.org/1957y/1957... http://www.olimpbase.org/1957y/1957... http://www.olimpbase.org/1957y/1957... Winter, p.153

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More "Tal at the Chess Olympiads":

Game Collection: Tal at the Uppsala Student Olympiad 1956

Game Collection: Tal at the Varna Student Olympiad 1958

Game Collection: Tal at the Munich Olympiad 1958

Game Collection: Tal at the Leipzig Olympiad 1960

Game Collection: Tal at the Varna Olympiad 1962

Game Collection: Tal at the Havana Olympiad 1966

Game Collection: Tal at the Skopje Olympiad 1972