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Mark Taimanov vs Mikhail Tal
USSR Championship (1969), Moscow URS, rd 12, Sep-23
English Opening: Great Snake Variation (A10)  ·  1-0

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ANALYSIS [x]
Notes by Stockfish 9 v010218 (minimum 6s/ply)3.Bg2 was played in A Summerscale vs M Lyell, 2001 (1-0)better is 5.Nh3 Nf6 6.O-O O-O 7.Nc3 c6 8.b3 Na6 9.Bb2 Bd7 ⩲ +0.62 (21 ply) 5...e5 6.dxe6 Nc6 7.Nh3 Bxe6 8.Bd5 Qd7 9.Ng5 Bxd5 = +0.03 (20 ply) ⩲ +0.89 (24 ply)better is 14.h4 e5 15.dxe6 Nxe6 16.Qd3 Nxf4 17.Bxf4 Bc6 18.Qxd6 ⩲ +0.84 (21 ply)better is 14...g5 15.Nd3 h6 16.b4 cxb4 17.Nxb4 Ng4 18.Nd3 Qh5 19.h3 = +0.30 (22 ply) ⩲ +0.80 (23 ply)better is 22.Bf4 Bc6 23.Nd5 Ne5 24.Re3 Qd7 25.exf5 gxf5 26.Rfe1 a5 ⩲ +0.85 (22 ply) 22...Qf7 23.Bxg4 fxg4 24.Re3 Rbe8 25.Bc3 Bc6 26.f4 gxf3 = +0.19 (22 ply) ± +1.68 (25 ply) 23...Qf7 24.exf5 Bxf5 25.Bxd4+ cxd4 26.Qd1 Ne5 27.Bxf5 ⩲ +1.17 (24 ply)+- +3.20 (25 ply) 24...Qxd5 25.cxd5 Bxe1 26.Bxg4 Bb4 27.Qb2+ Kg8 28.Qe2 +- +2.92 (24 ply)+- +5.17 (25 ply) 29...Rxf6 30.Qxf6 Bb4 31.Qxd6 Rf8 32.Qxa6 Kg7 33.Qa7+ +- +5.23 (30 ply)better is 30.Nh5+ Kf7 31.Qf6+ Ke8 32.Qe6+ Kd8 33.Qxd6+ Kc8 +- +13.08 (26 ply)+- +5.09 (29 ply)44...Rf7 45.f5+ Kg7 46.Qe5+ Rf6 47.Kf2 Kf7 48.Qc7+ Kf8 +- +8.01 (28 ply)1-0

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Jan-05-05  Poisonpawns: weird opening moves by both players,transposing to a dutch leningrad.21.Bh3! secures a nice advantage for white and Tal is lost after 24.exf5! but earlier he had improvements,namely 12..g5!when 13.Ne6 Nxe6 14.dxe6 Bxe6 15.Bxg5 Bxc4 favor black.So after 12..g5 white must play 13.Nd3 and black is already = Also on move 18.black should have played g5 with equality. Usually in these Nh3 lines if black can play a timely g5 he will be = if not better, white tries h4 to try to prevent this plan so on move 13. I like h4! for white instead of a5
Aug-27-07  MindCtrol9: marmotPFL:Im analizing the game Taimonov-Tal(1969).5.d5 where Tal plays 5...c4.I think this move helps white.If GMT makes it(I dout it) then my choice would be 6.Nh3 and why?This Knight is going to be very dengerous.Taimanov waite for Tal to place the Knight on f6.With the move 6...Nf6 Taimonov delays castling,he takes advantage of this normal developing to move his Knight to c3 with 7.Nc3 Na6 8.0-0 Nc7 (he has not castle,yet)9.Bd2(this is an excellent move where I give not three but four !!!!The Bishop here has different options.This is a phychological move,it can stay there prepering the advance of a4,a5.At the same time the Qween could be move to c2 or c1 depending of the next black move.The white Rooks have more options,too. 9...0-0 10.Qc2(good move in my modest opinion)10...Rb8 11.a4 Bd7 12.Nf4(my preference is to keep at least one Knight)12...a6 13.a5(I played similar opositions when I was in tournaments,long time ago with excellent results,this was long time ago in Cuba)13...Qe8 14.Rb1(the move 9.Ad2 is seen here with differents prospects)14...b5 15.axb6(the advance of the pawn to a5 did its purpose)15...Rxb6 16.b3 Rb8 17.e4(this is like saying:Time to fight Tal)17...e5 18.dxe6(the reason of 5.d5)18...Nxe6 19.Nxe6 Qxe6(I prefer 19...Bxe6) 20.Rbe1 Kh1 21.Bh3 Ng4 22.Nd5(see?).This position is,white is much better).

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