| Nov-28-02 |
| Ghoul: This is the first game of a 1968 Candidates match. Black's 23...Rab8 frees the
queen from protecting the knight. I think white went wrong with 24 Rxa6. Someone I
analyzed this game with suggested 24 Qf1, but I think 24 Be3 is best because it
threatens Rh4 Ng5 and Qh5. But the later move 31 Qh5 wasn't very good. I think 31
Nb3 is better because 31...Qe2 only looks scary and 31...Re2 is met by 32 Kh2 which wins for white. |
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| Nov-28-02 |
| Vilkacis: What if after 31. Nb3 black plays 31...Qxb3 32. Qh5 Rxc1 ch and so on? |
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| Nov-28-02 |
| pawntificator: Ghoul!!! Welcome to the site! Congrats on the first board acheivement on your chess team, also, way to play chess as a woman! For some reason they don't seem to play the game as much. I don't know why. I've been looking at your 31. Nb3 Qe2 line. What continuation did you have in mind there? Were you planning on trying to keep the extra material or let it go for an attack? |
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| Nov-28-02 |
| pawntificator: 31. Nb3 Qxb3 32. Qxb3 Rxb3 33. Be3 could draw 31. Bxb2 Rxd1 32 Kh2 cxd4 33 Rh4 could be winning for white...maybe |
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| Nov-28-02 |
| Ghoul: Thank you for the welcome. Most of the lines we tried gave black a scary attack, but white was able to escape. One is 31 Nb3 Qe2 32 Qd5 Re6 33 Rh4 Qe1+ 34 Kh2 Bd6+ 35 Bf4 Qg1+ 36Kg3 Re8+ 37 Kg4 and white is all right. |
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| Nov-28-02 |
| Sylvester: This game is in Gligoric's new book. He says Tal's 24. Rxa6 was solid play, but says that 31. Qh5? was impulsive. His idea is also that 31. Nb3 was the best move for Tal. He looks at two replies for himself--31...Qe2 and 31...Qxb3. After the second one he did not consider 32. Qxb3 Rxb3 33. Be3. He had 32. Qh5 Rxc1Ý 33. Kh2 Be6Ý... In the actual game Gligoric says that 35...Ree1! was the decisive move because it threatened a checkmate and forced Tal to go into a losing endgame. |
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| Nov-28-02 |
| Vilkacis: I like Tal's move 22. Ra3 hoping for 22...Bxa3 23. Rxg7 ch |
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| Jun-24-03 |
| drukenknight: it looks like 40 Rg5 would be stronger. After black takes the N; it would appear very difficult to stop the queening pawn. Is there any way to prevent blacks K from getting toward the queening square? |
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| May-24-04 |
| Jim Bartle: Tal and Gligoric were great friends. In his book Tal writes that the two of them agreed to a rest day so they could go to a World Cup football qualifier (I think France-Yugoslavia) together. |
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| May-25-04 |
| Whitehat1963: This is truly a wonderful game! |
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| May-25-04 |
| Swindler: A fine game. IMHO, the Ruy Lopez Closed is what chess is "really" about to me. |
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| Jan-03-05 |
| lopium: I like this game very much. Black are really strong here. |
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| Jan-04-05 |
| TheWhiteRider: I think 31. Bxb2 would have been better for white… but hey! Who am I to correct the great Mikhail Tal?... |
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| Feb-02-07 |
| pilobolus: Wow this is a amazing game! |
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| Sep-11-07 |
| syracrophy: Those menacing and dangerous queen and rooks on the Black's kingside, reminds me of this awesome game, with both rooks and queen on an open h-file to the black king - but insufficient to win! Keres vs Smyslov, 1953 |
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Oct-07-07
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| notyetagm: <pilobolus: Wow this is a amazing game!> Indeed, amazing game. Wow.
And after all the fireworks and tactical play, how does Black win? He gives back the exchange with 40 ...  e1x e3! to simplify into a pawn down(!) rook endgame, plays 41 ... b7-c7 to place his rook -behind- his passed c5-pawn, 
click for larger viewand then just pushes his passed pawn home to victory. This is a tremendous example showing that in the endgame what is important is who has the -most- -dangerous- passed pawn, not who has more pawns or more passed pawns. Here White has an extra pawn but is powerless to stop the fast passed Black c-pawn. An amazingly simple end to an incredibly tactical game. |
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| Apr-05-08 |
| mistreaver: <This is a tremendous example showing that in the endgame what is important is who has the -most- -dangerous- passed pawn, not who has more pawns or more passed pawns.>
Perhaps this should rather be :
In the endgame it is important who has more passed pawns, as usually 1 passed pawns is not good enough for victory. It is hard to be general, but i have recently read a good book about endgames and am still studying it and the writer, Vladimir Cvetnić says that in minor piece and king and pawn endgames material is important because minor piece can sacrifice itself for passed pawn. He also mentions that in rook endgames, with passed pawns it is also a single tempo that decides the matters. |
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Apr-05-08
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| euripides: Tal and Gligoric played the position after White's 21st three times in 1967-8; the other two were drawn. Levy, in his book on Gligoric, suggests that this sequence put 15.a4 out of business in grandmaster chess. Juding from the 'similar games' page, that seems to be roughly true, but there has been one recent revival of the line: Stellwagen vs I Sokolov, 2006 |
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