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| Mar-01-04 | | thefrogspitit: hey guys thanks...i just like tal the way he attacked and the way he brought positions to life which had mate threats hiding in corners all about :-)...i just don't see that firey sharp play from anyone these days...seems so dull and petrosianic like--i guess that's the age we have dawned on--the age of drawing |
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| Feb-21-05 | | Halfpricemidge: All that sacrificing and then suddenly mate without a long 'king-hunt'...NN was going to lose anyway so he was probably bribed to fix this game just to make it showy. |
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May-23-05
 | | ArturoRivera: No Tal would be god compared to morphy i think, i also would bet that Tal could give Morphy pawn and move odds, and present a fair battle and even win, Tal is better than Morphy, i like this phrase. And so we see, Morhpy sucumbed to the magician, as the wizard of riga sacrificed three pieces to mate the enemy king, while Morhpy fall into a bit of wizardy. |
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| Dec-21-05 | | ChessLeader: I agree ArturoRivera, Tal is a chess god to whom no one (so far) can compare. Morphy made his sacrifices during a different epoc, whereas Tal made his sacrifices against opponents a lot more sophisticated; opponents who already had an opportunity to learn from the latest advances of chess theory. His games against Smyslov and Botvinnik are good illustrations that what I said is true. |
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| Jan-07-06 | | 2 all chessplayerz: this was 2 years after he was world champion |
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| Jan-07-06 | | TalEl: Black should have played either 7... Qc7 or 7...Nbd7 fortifying the e5 square. This game is an example of the price you pay for making an opening lapse against Tal |
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Jan-08-06
| | whatthefat: 13...Qxe5! is best, but white at least retains attacking chances, or a draw in some lines. Tal must have used this fact to justify (and perhaps safeguard) the combination. The best line for both sides runs
14.Bd3! Be7! 15.Bxe7 Kxe7 16.Rhe1 h5! 17.Qb4+ Qc5 18.Qh4+ and now: a) 18...g5 19.Qh3 Kd8 20.Qxe6 where white has compensation but the game is unclear. It's a position where I'd have my money on Tal! b) 18...Nf6 19.Qg3 Kf8!? (19...Rg8 20.Re5 and white has full compensation, and stands well) 20.Rxe6 Nbd7 21.Qf4 Kg8 seems to leave black with some advantage as I can't find a good way forward for white. 22.Be4!? might offer good chances though. Nonetheless, an extremely brave combination, crowned by the stunning 16.Bc4!! Tal must have been on fire that day, as he had to see all the way to the finish to be prepared to give up such material! |
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| Jan-08-06 | | ughaibu: Here's one from Chessbase:
[Event "CUB-ch6"]
[Site "Cuba"]
[Date "1965.??.??"]
[Round "0"]
[White "Jimenez Zerquera,Eleazar"]
[Black "Garcia,Gilberto"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "B96"]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 b5 8.e5 dxe5
9.fxe5 Qc7 10.Qe2 Nfd7 11.0-0-0 Bb7 12.Nxe6 fxe6 13.Qg4 Qxe5 14.Bxb5 h5 15.Bd3 Kf7 16.Rhf1+ Nf6
17.Bxf6 gxf6 18.Bg6+ Kg7 19.Bxh5+ Qg5+ 20.Qxg5+ fxg5 21.Rf7+ Kh6 22.Rxb7 Kxh5 23.Rd8 g4 24.Kd1 Kg6
25.Rbxb8 Rxb8 26.Rxb8 Kf7 27.Rb7+ Be7 28.h3 gxh3 29.gxh3 Rxh3 30.Ra7 Rh2 31.Rxa6 Bg5 32.Ne4 Be7
33.Rc6 Rh4 34.Rc4 Rh2 35.a4 e5 36.a5 Rh1+ 37.Kd2 Ra1 38.b4 Ke6 39.Nc3 Bg5+ 40.Kd3 Re1
41.Rc6+ Kf5 42.a6 e4+ 43.Kc4 Ra1 44.Rc5+ Kf4 45.Ra5 1-0 |
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| Jan-08-06 | | syracrophy: I wanna notice some points of this instructive miniature: 10...Nfd7?! <Useless and a loss of time.The knight its being attacked, but the best way of defending was attacking. Correct was 10...Bb4! and now its impossible 11.exf6?? because of 11...Bxc3+ 12.bxc3 Qxc3+ winning the rook> 12.Nxe6?! <This sacrifice its tentative, but a correct game by black will show that this sacrifice is incorrect. Correct was 12.a3> 13...Qb6? <The worst way of protecting the e6-pawn, that leads to a drastic refutation. The correct move was 13...Qxe5! and white has no compensation for the piece sacrifice> In this game, black's decisive mistake was <13...Qb6?> that subestimaed white's espectacular mating attack |
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Jan-08-06
| | KingG: <The worst way of protecting the e6-pawn, that leads to a drastic refutation. The correct move was 13...Qxe5! and white has no compensation for the piece sacrifice> I wouldn't say that. After 14.Bd3!, White has definite compensation. Whether it is quite sufficient or not, i'm not sure yet, but Black has to be extrmely accurate to maintain any advantage. I'm currently trying to analyse this game, and once i've finished, i'll post the analysis here. So far it seems that 14...Be7! is the best defence, as after 14...Nf6 15.Bxf6 gxf6 16.Kb1!(preventing 17...Qg5+  ), and now after 17.Rhe1, Black is in big trouble no matter what Black plays on his 16th move. |
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| Jan-08-06 | | HannibalSchlecter: This is one of the most brilliant games by Tal I have ever seen. One magic trick after another. |
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Feb-22-06
 | | dakgootje: Yes indeed a brilliant and truly beautiful game by Tal. But imagine you are given the chance of playing great Tal and you get slaughtered this way... |
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| Feb-22-06 | | Jim Bartle: I'd would have played it out to mate and then asked him to autograph the scoresheet. |
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Feb-22-06
 | | WannaBe: So typical of Tal's play, sac'ing pieces left and right! <Jim Bartle> Since the game was played out to mate, does that mean you're NN? |
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| Feb-22-06 | | Jim Bartle: Unmasked at last! Yes, I have lost brilliant games to all the great masters over the centuries. (Sort of like the Rowan and Martin joke:
Rowan: You know overpopulation is a big problem. Do you know a woman gives birth every 8 minutes in this world. What should we do? Martin: We've got to find that woman and stop her.) |
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Aug-13-06
| | KingG: <b) 18...Nf6 19.Qg3 Kf8!? (19...Rg8 20.Re5 and white has full compensation, and stands well) 20.Rxe6 Nbd7 21.Qf4 Kg8 seems to leave black with some advantage as I can't find a good way forward for white. 22.Be4!? might offer good chances though.> According to Kasparov, 19.Be4! is the best move, and he thinks White has compensation. |
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Nov-18-06
| | whatthefat: <KingG>
Thanks for that. |
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| Dec-10-07 | | onemorechessplayer: All moves after 12-th are forced-Tal is just renewing the mate threat with sacrificing piece after piece. Truly beautiful and eyecatching! Real classic! |
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Aug-05-08
| | Sem: Downright murder, only you don't go to jail. |
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| Nov-27-08 | | ChessYouGood: This game illustrates how deeply Tal understood openings and how deeply he understood the concept of initiative in chess. |
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| Mar-24-09 | | WhiteRook48: sacrifices like a maniac |
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| May-02-09 | | WhiteRook48: Tal is attacking like mad! |
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May-28-09
| | erwinkru71939: Itīs a hearth attack. Full of sacrifice and wonderfull mate. |
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| Apr-18-12 | | chaamjamal: I ran this through Shredder and right up to 13. Qg4 they were even but when black played Qb6 the advantage swung way over to white. If you change Qb6 to Qxe5 then the advantage goes to black. |
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| Jun-23-12 | | screwdriver: No wonder there is a Tal Memorial Tournament played every year. I don't think any world champion attacked like Tal did. |
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+ sac: 12.Nxe6