| Dec-16-05 | | Eatman: Qd6!! must have come quite as a shock to Tringov, who foolishly chose to open center while being massively behind in development (after eating that b2 pawn). Tal makes him pay in this miniature. |
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| Mar-30-06 | | zev22407: A game for the books,the danger of picking pawns in the openning.
With Q-d6 Tal ofers two pieces but he comends that black can takeone piece in a time! |
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| Mar-30-06 | | offramp: That makes me think of when annotators say "White has great piece activity." White may have great piece activity, but he can still only play one move at a time. |
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| Mar-31-06 | | zev22407: But his pieces are controlling the board. |
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| Apr-25-06 | | Zeratul1979: This game is actually in a book named 'Study chess with Tal'. The very first game actually!
Interesting note: What would Tal have done on black's reply 13.. exf4 instead of Qxc3? |
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| Apr-25-06 | | Jim Bartle: If I'd ever had the privilege of playing Tal, I'd have protected the f7 square from here to Sunday and still have been worried about a sacrifice. He seems to sacrifice a piece there in most of his great games. |
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Dec-07-06
 | | micartouse: Wow, black really played the opening badly. Grabbing the pawn is one thing, but moves 9-11 are just asking for disaster! |
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| Jan-22-07 | | sagahelten: For a video commentary by Henrik Daniels, see http://www.videochess.net/ (Intermediate: "Time, Space and Power"). The former Danish, now Icelandic grand master speaks english. |
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| Jan-23-07 | | sagahelten: <Henrik Danielsen; |
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| Sep-18-08 | | xevious75: To Zeratul: if 13.. exf4 then 14.Nd5 threatending 15.Nc7 forking King and Rook. Note that 14.. cxd5 would now be met by disastrous (for black) exd5+ |
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| Sep-20-08 | | pom nasayao: After 17. ___ Kd8, 18. Nf7+ Kc7 19. Qd6 mate. Or if Black plays 17. Ne7, then the continuation would be 18. Qf7+ Kd8 19. Ne6 mate. |
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| Oct-13-08 | | kloostra: As a young man,18 years of age,I was
there to see the great man make these
moves.....I was 2 metres from the board!! This was for me poetry in
motion...there is nothing to add...!
What an impression this man made on me!! As a human and a chess player..! |
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| Oct-14-08 | | Ladolcevita: wow,you are so lucky
can i be lucky someday???5555555..... |
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Sep-26-10
 | | GrahamClayton: Position after 13. d6!:
click for larger viewNotice the difference in development. Every White piece has been developed, while Black has "developed" only his Queen to the side of the board. |
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Dec-29-11
 | | maxi: This was one of the first games I studied. Needless to say I couldn't understand it very well. I was left prejudiced against the modern defense for a while after seeing it. <kloostra>, could you give any details about the actual game? |
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Mar-24-13
 | | PawnSac: Another masterpiece by the Magician from Riga! |
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sac: 13.Qd6
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