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Oct-03-03
 | | Benzol: <drukenknight;xu fei;Diggtydawg;Calli and Sylvester> I'm away for two days and you jokers write a book !! Thanks for all your efforts,it's going to take me some time to sort this lot out. |
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| Oct-03-03 | | drukenknight: on move 33, prolonged resistance seems to be had by 33...Rc1+ 34 Ke2 Ke5 I got to move 46 in this line w/ chessbase computer and black only down 1.2 or something which is not a bad score compared to simply counting up material on the board. |
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Oct-03-03
 | | Calli: <sylvester> Yes this is one of the books everybody should get. After Botvinnik's mistake on move 25, Tal considers that he has "winning chances". Botwinnik makes another error that gives White a thoretical win. Tal says that it is the move 31.Bxc2? that enables White to get his kingside pawns in motion and win. Instead he recommends 31...f5. During the game, he calculated 31...f5 32.Ne3 f4 33.Nc4+ Kc7 34.f3 Bxc2 35.Bxc2 Rxc4 36.Bb3 Rc5 37.Nf2 with winning chances. |
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Oct-03-03
| | Benzol: <Sylvester> Most critics rate Tal's book and Kasparov's book 'New World Chess Champion' to be the best match books written. |
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| Apr-01-07 | | gambitfan: Endgame  +  vs |
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| Apr-01-07 | | gambitfan: a MISTAKE§§
Endgame: + vs |
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| Aug-09-07 | | kingsindian2006: what play for a championship match ...the pressure tal put on can make a man sweat in russia. |
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| Mar-21-08 | | Knight13: <35.f4 Rb1+ 36.Ke2 Rb2+ 37.Kf3 Rb3+
38.Kg4 Rb2> You might think that only helps White in supporting his pawns, but actually it pushes White's king away so Black can push his pawn down with less White pieces preventing it (though it wasn't successful and the king came back). |
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Jul-28-08
 | | plang: In Game 5 Botvinnik had played 6..e6 and after 7 h4 Tal had considered several speculative sacrifices on e6. Botvinnik varies here with 6..Nd7 preparing ..e5 and avoiding the sacrifices. Tal is sceptical about whether this early opening of the position is in the spirit of the Caro Kann. By move 12 Botvinnik had used almost an hour more on the clock than Tal. Tal was critical of his 14 Kxe2 recommending 14 Ngxe2 instead. Although Tal did not realize it during the game he had played a draw against Ilivitsky in the semi-finals to the 1955 USSR championship.Ilivitsky had played 16..Nce4. Tal's attempts to complicate in a basically even endgame would not have worked had Botvinnik played 25..Rh8 or 25..Bf5. Although Tal's combination won two knights for a rook the awkward placing of the knights gave Botvinnik some compensation. Tal felt that Botvinnik would have had better defensive chances with 31..f5 32 Ne3..f4
33 Nc4+..Ke7 34 f3..Bxc2 35 Bxc2..Rxc4
36 Bb3..Rc5 37 Nf2. Perhaps with 32..Bg6 whites kingside pawns could have been better defended against. |
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| Sep-05-08 | | Mikhail Tal fan: simply a best demonstration of Tal's genius .. Good Sacrifices never blow down |
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| Nov-02-08 | | gambitfan: Endgame : + (8.5) //  + (7)
click for larger view34... xb3
click for larger view49 xf8 Black just gave their Rook in exchange of the promoted pawn... In order to win White must get rid of both remaining Black pawns and they must save their own pawn since 2 Knights alone are not sufficient to mate the Black King 
click for larger view52 b1 1-0
Why did the great Botvinnik resign to Mikhaïl Tal ?
How can White prevent both Black Pawns from queening and ensure queening for his own White Pawn ? Not so obvious !
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| Nov-02-08 | | gambitfan: What happens after 52 b1 ?
Let's see...
52... c3 53  d1 ... necessary to forbid the deadly push c2 black is forbidden access to d3 very important square to help the pawn push ... c2 54... e3 not being able to protect the push ... c2 black heads towards the unprotected white which protects the white ; but o,nce black reaches f2 or f3, then e2 and the white from protected by the pawn becomes protector of the pawn, being protected itself by the white 55 xc3 f2, f3 56 e2!
white e2 is protected both by white but also by white c3 ext move white can leave his post of protector of e2 to swallow black b2 : 57 c2 ...
57... b1 + 58 xb1
Having got rid of both black , white can concentrate on the queening of their only It won't be too difficult...
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Nov-01-10
 | | talisman: 14. x e2?...O.K. somebody talk to me about my main man. |
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| Aug-14-11 | | positionalgenius: Watching Tal's sacrifices never gets old.
26.Rxd7+! |
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May-09-12
 | | HeMateMe: Tal, M.B., 1960. One of my favorite matches. |
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May-09-12
 | | sevenseaman: Shutting the opponent out in the cold! |
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| May-09-12 | | screwdriver: Gotta love the endgame. |
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| May-09-12 | | LadiesAndGentlemen: Took me an embarrassingly long time to see that black can't play 44...Kxe4, because of 45.Nf6+, and wherever the black K moves, white would then play 46.Ne8. Doh! Oh well, slow learner I guess :) Cheers all. |
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May-09-12
 | | Garech: Great endgame!
-Garech |
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May-09-12
 | | SuperPatzer77: Wow!! It is probably one of the greatest endgames for Mikhail Tal. It is like "Mike vs Mike" - (Mikhail Tal vs Mikhail Botvinnik), huh?? LOL LOL
SuperPatzer77 |
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May-09-12
 | | kevin86: I wonder if both players were mic-ed.Tal wins sharp ending. |
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| May-09-12 | | jonico: Why not 44...Kxe4? |
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May-09-12
 | | Phony Benoni: <jonico> After <44...Kxe4>:
click for larger viewWhite continues 45.Nf6+ and 46.Ne8, when the f-pawn inevitably promotes. This doesn't work in the game (with the Black on d5) because Black can answer 45.Nf6+ with 45...Ke6. |
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May-09-12
 | | AylerKupp: <<HeMateMe:> Tal, M.B., 1960. One of my favorite matches.> If you don't have Tal's book on the match, you should definitely get it. What makes it fascinating is Tal's comments as he approached each game, as well as his comments about his feelings during the game, all in his unique style. And showing the time on the clock for every move, though seldom done, adds a lot since you can tell how much time each player spent on each move (although I think that the time per move rather than the total running time would have been even more useful). Highly, highly recommended. |
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| May-09-12 | | Petrosianic: PH Clarke's book on the 1969 match has time readings too. I don't know why they're so uncommon, they're absolutely essential to understanding what was going on in some positions. |
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