| Mar-31-03 | | juanjose: 52th move white is wrong
Right is Rxa8 |
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Apr-01-03
 | | chessgames.com: Thanks. We corrected this score to match what's available at http://www.chesslab.com/ |
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| Oct-18-03 | | MAGICIAN: he wasn't even afraid of keres!!. one has to be very brave to try a combination like that with a world champi0n candidate. |
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| Feb-13-06 | | Hesam7: Unbelievable. Tal gets another winning position but he throws it away! After 35. Rf4 Qh2! 36. Be2 [forced]:
click for larger viewFruit gives:
36... Bd5 37. Rxc8 Rxc8 38. Nf3 Bxf3 39. Rxf3 Rd8 40. Ke1 h5 41. Qc2 Qxe5 42. e4 Kg7 43. Qc6 h4 44. Qb7 Qa1 45. Kf2 Qd4 46. Kg2 Qd7 47. Qb6 Qd2 48. Kf2 (eval: -1.83) Depth: 19
1755M nodes
655K node/sec |
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| Aug-13-06 | | think: <MAGICIAN> Actually, Tal was a world champion himself. |
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| Nov-09-07 | | Eyal: 35...Rxc1? instead of Qh2+ indeed throws away the win (35...Qh2+ 36.Be2 g5 followed by Qxe5 is even simpler than the line posted by <Hesam7>); after 36.Qxc1 white has the strong Qc7. Tal could probably still draw the game - however, after 44...b3? his position collapses; 44...Bc6 should keep the balance. |
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| Feb-27-09 | | DrGridlock: The position after White's 34 Rf4 is striking. A cursory glance shows white's en-prise pawn on e5. Black has at least 3 different ways to win it. Rybka gives - Qh2+, be2 g5, rxc8 rxc8, rf1 qxe5 (-1.09)
Bb7, rxc8 bxc8, bc4 g5, rf1 qxe5 (-1.00)
Qg2+, be2 qd5, bf3 qxe5 (-.84)
Black's game continuation, bringing the white Queen to c1 after the rook exchange, allows the queen to move to c7 and protect the e5 pawn if it is attacked, and is one of the few black continuations that actually saves the e5 pawn. |
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| Aug-28-16 | | Tal1949: Such a shame Tal lost this. Rarely is black so far ahead in a candidates game. It was a messy and complicated game though. I would hate to be forced to play it. I would blunder every move! |
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| Jul-17-23 | | tympsa: Keres was one of players who had upper hand against Tal, Magician`s magic did not work against him most of the time. The other was of course Korchnoi who destroyed Tal in decisive games 13-4 . Rarely we see such a lopsided H2H between world top players. They (Korchnoi and Tal ) were friends in their youth, but relationship became very sore and bitter when Korchnoi defected Soviet Union, was declared enemy of the state and Tal helped Karpov in Baguio W CH match |
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Jul-17-23
 | | perfidious: From a 1972 interview with Larsen:
<<....Analytic power and positional insight vary very much for different Grandmasters. Smyslov and Petrosian never liked to analyze complex positions very much, Tal obviously does it very well and Korchnoi's whole play is based on analysis. If you are Smyslov or Petrosian then you have such positional understanding that you can avoid many complications and dangers and the need for so much analysis. Analytical power improves very much with practice; you learn to find what is critical in a position, what is worth analysing - you see which pieces are active, where the weak points are. When you don't know what to analyse, you sit there for a long time, picking variations almost at random. Tal and Korchnoi were probably born with a greater gift for analysis than I was and I was born with a greater gift than Smyslov and Petrosian; and in positional insight it is the other way round. Korchnoi is fantastic at calculating complex variations, especially when he is hard pressed; but he must analyze because his judgment when he doesn't calculate is very bad - he has to get through a lot of variations before he knows what's happening. Of course many things that worry the ordinary player are not problems at all for a Grandmaster; but in the difficult positions Spassky has said "Korchnoi is always wrong". Maybe a strong point of Fischer is that he is good both at analysis and in judgment - though Tal can calculate better and possibly Korchnoi also.'>Alexander, <A Book of Chess>, p 88> While Polugaevsky was not named in either your commentary, or that of Larsen herein, he too was outstanding at calculation and gave Tal a great deal of difficulty. |
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