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Ulf Andersson vs Mikhail Tal
Skelleftea World Cup (1989), Skelleftea SWE, rd 3, Aug-14
Queen Pawn Game: Symmetrical Variation (E03)  ·  1/2-1/2

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Nov-02-12  Ruud van Caspel: This cannot be the correct score. 79. Kd6 wins outright.
Nov-21-17
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  Retireborn: As <Ruud> pointed out, there is a mistake in the score (which has probably been copied from Chessbase or similar.)

Black's 78th move was 78...Ke6 according to my commercial Tal database, and then as in the game.

With 79.Kb5 Andersson sets a nice trap; 79...Ke5? 80.Kc5, but Tal isn't having any.

It's surprising that White can't win the final position, but I have not been able to find a way to break through.

Nov-22-17  Howard: Are 7-piece tablebases available to the general public, or do you gotta be a "member" in order to utilize them. At any rate, they would settle the issue as to whether one can "break through" in the final position or not.

Thanks for pointing out the error in the moves!

Nov-22-17  Howard: Are 7-piece tablebases available to the general public, or do you gotta be a "member" in order to utilize them. At any rate, they would settle the issue as to whether one can "break through" in the final position or not.

Thanks for pointing out the error in the moves!

If I can find the back issue of Inside Chess that has this game (they ran the moves to ALL the games in this tournament), I'll check their version as to the 78th move.

Nov-22-17
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  Retireborn: Looks like you have to pay 20 silver dollars for the 7-man; I'm in no hurry!

Skelleftea would be the last time that Tal would play some of the historic figures of the game. After losing to Short in round one, he drew his next 14 games.

Many of these were very short, perhaps because he was undoubtedly looking very frail by then, but against Andersson, Kasparov, Salov, and Karpov he showed he could still hold his own in real games.

Nov-23-17  Straclonoor: 1. Pawn endgame is drawn according to Lomonosov TB7.

2. Gamescore is wrong - 78th black move was 78....Ke6 not Kf6. I finded this game in CD 'Chess genious Alekhine and Tal' published by Convekta ten or more years ago.

Nov-23-17
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  Retireborn: <Straclonoor> Thanks for that. Yes, I too am using the Convekta Tal database.

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