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Jul-29-07
 | | jackpawn: Maybe he didn't die directly from smoking, but his heavy smoking and drinking certainly didn't help his immune system. That's just common sense. |
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Dec-06-07
 | | InspiredByMorphy: <jackpawn> <That's just common sense.> It is. A completely logical statement. However one could also argue that life is short and he obviously spent his time the way he wanted to. |
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Jan-07-09
| | zdigyigy: I used to smoke, and may I say that there is no greater pleasure than to smoke and play chess. |
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| Jan-07-09 | | ILikeFruits: smoking...
harms the...
enviorment and...
mama earth...
save the...
planet...
and polar...
bears... |
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| Apr-18-09 | | James Demery: ILikeFruits...
I notice...
your posts...
are always...
this way...
is it...
because of...
your bong... |
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| May-07-09 | | carpetshark: Tal was suffering from a serious illness and was operated on during this tournament, which must have affected his performance (maybe not in this game). |
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| May-17-10 | | Eric Farley: Now he's smoking in hell! It's amazing how people don't even up the odds! |
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| May-17-10 | | Petrosianic: <Tal is *smoking*.> Tal was always smoking. His wife said in one interview that he didn't even need a lighter, he'd just use the end of the old cigarette to light a new one. |
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| May-17-10 | | mrbasso: I just noticed, the game notation is wrong, not only here but in all sources. Look at the picture. You can see the black Pawn already on h6, a black King on c6, the white King on c4 and the Knight on d5.
So 45.Nd5 Kc6 46.Nc3 really happened in this game. |
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| May-17-10 | | Marmot PFL: <as far as I know, smoking is "allowed" in well over 99% of public areas.> Not any more, at least not in the USA. Many states have banned it even in bars and nightclubs. |
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May-17-10
 | | Phony Benoni: <mrbasso> Not necessarily; the picture could be from a post-mortem. Note the official-looking guy who looks like he's collecting scoresheets. |
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| May-17-10 | | mrbasso: <phony> I guess you're right. Tal looks pretty relaxed in the picture. |
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| May-17-10 | | Petrosianic: <Amulet: I remember reading something like, "If the Soviet Union will declare war against vodka, he said he will play for the vodka team."> The way it happened was a little funnier. The Soviet Union was organizing one of their periodic anti-alcoholism campaigns. The name of the campaign was "State vs. Vodka". To this, Tal quipped "I'll play on the Vodka Team." |
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| Dec-13-12 | | Cadoy: Tal can't win this endgame? |
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Dec-13-12
 | | Sastre: White has a fairly straightforward draw in the final position. 50... g3 (50...Kc5 51.Kf4 Kd4 52.Kxg4 Kxc3 53.Kf5) 51.Kf3 Bf2 (51...Bd4 52.Ne4; 51...Kd7 52.Ne4 Ke6 53.Ng5+) 52.Ne4 Be1 (52...Kd5 53.Ng5) 53.Ng5=. |
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| Apr-26-13 | | unluckythirtyfive: Ughaibu, I have kidney disease, and it is recommended for me to not smoke. Smoking raises blood pressure, which hastens kidney disease. Tal could have lived a couple more decades had he never picked them up. |
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| Apr-27-13 | | ughaibu: Interesting. My GFR is around 60, but my doctors never suggested that should encourage me to stop smoking. Anyway, how long Tal would've lived had he been a non-smoker, is a matter of conjecture, those who live the longest aren't the type who take conspicuous precautions. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Sre... |
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May-02-13
| | Beancounter: Tal gave a simul in my club once (1974 I believe). He had a man following him around whose sole duty it appeared was to light Tal's cigarettes. He was a chain smoker even then. |
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| May-02-13 | | Petrosianic: It seems unlikely. Tal's wife says that he lit his own cigarettes without needing a lighter by pressing the lit end of the old cigarette to a new one. |
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May-02-13
| | Beancounter: That's the story I've been told by more than one person who was there on the night. I have no reason to disbelieve them. |
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| May-02-13 | | Petrosianic: Okay, well it could well be true. Maybe by 1974, Tal had graduated to having a designated human cigarette lighter. He was a chain smoker from very early in his career. |
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May-02-13
 | | perfidious: When we met in 1988, Tal lit his own and kept a bottle of vodka near to hand the whole time. |
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| May-02-13 | | Petrosianic: I think Tal knew very early in life that he wasn't going to live long, and saw no point in taking care of himself. Remember his quip about the anti-drinking "State vs. Vodka" campaign? "I'll play on the Vodka team." |
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May-02-13
| | perfidious: At this link (http://boylston-chess-club.blogspot...), the last but one photo, of Tal in conversation with two young players, was taken the night before we met. While I was well aware Tal was 51, if I had not known better, I would have sworn he was well into his sixties. |
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May-02-13
| | RookFile: Seemed like Tal was in trouble in this game and did well to get a draw out of this. |
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