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| May-04-11 | | bartonlaos: A fantastic five minute game that was played between Tal and Spassky! (I won't be uploading, but if someone else thinks it's worthy, they are more than welcomed to do so...) -----
PGN
[Event "Rapid Championship"]
[Site "Moscow"]
[Date "1957"]
[Time "5 minutes"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Boris Spassky"]
[Result "1-0"]
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 f5 4.Nc3 Nd4 5.exf5 Nf6 6.Nxe5 Bc5 7.O-O O-O 8.Nf3 c6 9.Nxd4 Bxd4 10.Ne2 Be5 11.Bc4+ d5 12.Bd3 c5 13.Ng3 c4 14.Be2 Bxg3 15.hxg3 Bxf5 16.d3 b5 17.a4 a6 18.axb5 axb5 19.Rxa8 Qxa8 20.dxc4 dxc4 21.Bf3 Qa2 22.Re1 Qb1 23.Qd6 Qxc2 24.Bd5+ Nxd5 25.Qxd5+ Kh8 26.Qf7 Rg8 27.Bh6 1-0 -----
Translated from:
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/upl... |
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May-18-11
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <Mikhail Tal>
Live film footage of <Tal> v. <Benko> (Benko wearing his sunglasses)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKvy... |
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| May-29-11 | | BobCrisp: Added a couple of games from his famous(?) Knotty Ash simul in Liverpool in 1974: Tal vs J M Ripley, 1974
Tal vs P N Pierce, 1974
See also: Tal vs W R Chandler, 1974 |
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| Jun-01-11 | | kia0708: Tal: "Fischer is the greatest genius to descend from the chess heavens." Interesting I think. |
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| Jun-01-11 | | kia0708: from English tv on Tal brilliancy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM5w... |
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| Jun-06-11 | | bronkenstein: BTW jessicafischerqueen´s vid with sunglasses is about this game Tal vs Benko, 1959 , keygame that allowed Tal to challenge Botvinnik for the WC title , and eventually become the champion . You have full story part by part in kibitzing on that game´s page. |
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| Jun-13-11 | | micartouse: A funny story from Tal's wife:
<Very young chess players would often visit him, and he consulted them. Well-known grandmasters would also come to us. I remember Mark Taimanov's visit during his preparations for the match against Fischer. Misha asked, "Mark, how should I play you - with my full strength, or experiment a bit?" Taimanov answered, "Of course, as strongly as you can." My husband won all five games.> http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/a... |
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| Jun-13-11 | | talisman: and "they" took away his GM title and i'm not sure if he ever got it back.(talking bout taimonov of course). |
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| Jun-14-11 | | newzild: Odd that the Magician from Riga had such a low peak rating - 2645. Sure his best years were in the late 50s and 60s, before Elo ratings came along, but he was second in the world (to Karpov) in 1979. |
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Jun-14-11
 | | perfidious: <newzild> Seems to me that on the official list after his crushing win in the Riga Interzonal, he topped out at ~2705. |
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| Jun-15-11 | | newzild: <talisman: and "they" took away his GM title and i'm not sure if he ever got it back.(talking bout taimonov of course).> No "they" didn't. The GM title was bestowed on Taimanov by FIDE, and Russian chess officials had no power to "take it away". However, it is true that Taimanov suffered. He lost his Government salary for a while, and his overseas travel was restricted. |
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| Jun-17-11 | | talisman: <newzild> what "they" bestowed (back then) to GM's was taken away from Taimonov, although later ( i beleive) was restored. |
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| Jun-24-11 | | MMan: Interesting reference to Tal in V. M. Zubok's "Zhivago's Children", a book about the intelligentsia in the post-Stalin USSR: "The avant-garde wave even reached the game of chess. During the Stalinist era it was the second most popular game after soccer, and it was propogandized by the regime as the manifestation of Soviet superiority. Everyone was shocked when the twenty-four-year-old Mikhail Tal defeated Mikhail Botvinnik, a living symbol of Stalin-era Soviet predominance in chess. Botvinnik's calculating style led Western analysts to compare Stalinist foreign policy moves the chess gambits and endgames. Tal, by contrast, dazzled the chess world and millions of Soviet chess fans with his unpredictability. He was a genius of improvisation who viewed chess as a art form. Every game for him was as inimitable and invaluable as a poem." The above contains the following footnote:
"Mikhail Tal, born in Riga, Latvia, moved to Moscow, where he led a furiously active social life and frequented many Moscow kompany (informal intellectual gatherings), theaters, and poetic readings. He was a darling of the 'new' journalists and published many reflections on chess, life, and art." |
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Jul-01-11
 | | Sneaky: I shared this anecdote at the Kibitzer's Cafe but they were too embroiled in their discussion about god-knows-what to notice, so I'll repeat it here. The source was some random Russian site that I was translating to English, but even if apocryphal it makes for a great story: ♖ ♖ ♖
Tal was being transferred to a hospital, and an intern was asking him a bunch of routine questions. The intern eventually asked, <Are you addicted to morphine?> To which Tal replied,
<NO!!! Tchigorin!!!> |
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Jul-01-11
 | | tpstar: The new Tal picture is very dashing, with a devilish look in his eyes. I never liked the photo of him smoking. :P |
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| Jul-01-11 | | TheFocus: Yes, the young Tal with movie star good looks. |
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Jul-05-11
 | | chancho: http://www.echecs-photos.be/BobbyFi... http://www.echecs-photos.be/BobbyFi... http://uhcclub.com/wp-content/uploa... http://kendgame.bridigum.com/images... http://www.worldchesslinks.net/foto... http://avrukhboris.files.wordpress.... http://media.paperblog.fr/i/289/289... |
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Jul-05-11
 | | kingfu: I prefer the picture of Tal sucking a cigarette. It is a more accurate portrait. Thank you Chessgames for trying to mitigate the real Tal. Cigarettes and Vodka take a toll on ALL of us. TNX, Sneaky
We need more, more, more. The Kibitizers tend to be Chess Light. I guess Tal could have said, "No Gruenfeld." |
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Jul-05-11
 | | HeMateMe: I don't like the photo. It looks like he is running for Congress with John Edwards. I'd prefer to see Mr. T at the board, perhaps exchanging stares with young Fischer. However, it is refreshing to see photos refreshed now and then. |
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Jul-06-11
| | kingfu: HMM,
Have you seen the new Fischer photo? He is doing THE STARE on a pinball machine in Coney Island! Great stuff, Chessgames.
Check out game 459. Fischer versus Tal. Tal plays The French! I have been trying to educate folks on the value of NOT castling into the attack from the black side. That usually means black does 0-0, which is short for uh-oh. In game 459 Tal does 0-0-0. Even though he lost the exchange, Tal still got a draw. |
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Jul-06-11
| | HeMateMe: He's probably silenting accusing the machine of swindling him out of points..."Hey! I was supposed to get DOUBLE BONUS when I hit the 3 cushion! I want my money back! Its a conspiracy to take our money! MY MONEY!" |
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Jul-07-11
| | kingfu: HMM,
LOL.
Did The Pinball Machine offer a DRAW?? |
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| Jul-09-11 | | teddysalad: Finally a new and improved picture of Tal. We know he drank and smoked a lot, we didn't need to be constantly reminded of it. |
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| Jul-09-11 | | bronkenstein: Too fancy for my taste , the previous one was much more bohemian (though he did look like Mussolini there =). |
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| Jul-10-11 | | TiburcioTinio: hello din po kay mikail tal favorite ko kahit patay na |
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