Spassky vs Tal 1958 USSR championship. To be honest it looks like Tal is about to fall asleep :D.
Spassky had to win the game, in order to qualify for the interzonal, so he refused a draw offer from Tal, already in the opening, but he blundered in the endgame and lost.
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Spassky had to win the game, in order to qualify for the interzonal, so he refused a draw offer from Tal, already in the opening, but he blundered in the endgame and lost.
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Spassky vs Tal 1958 USSR championship. To be honest it looks like Tal is about to fall asleep :D. Spassky had to win the game, in order to qualify for the interzonal, so he refused a draw offer from Tal, already in the opening, but he blundered in the endgame…
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"My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration."
🔸 Bobby Fischer
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🔸 Bobby Fischer
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From the same issue, a photo of the 3rd-round match between Sweden & the USSR. On top board, Anatoly Karpov faces Ulf Andersson; on board 2, Lars Karlsson faces Mikhail Tal.
Details here: http://olimpbase.org/1980e/1980fa03.html#urs
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Details here: http://olimpbase.org/1980e/1980fa03.html#urs
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Daily chess puzzle
Alexandra Botez - Laubscher, Chess Olympiad, Baku 2016
https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/140809
Alexandra Botez - Laubscher, Chess Olympiad, Baku 2016
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Puzzle 140809: White to win
Click the diagram to solve this chess puzzle from the game Botez, Alexandra - Laubscher, Anzel, Baku 2016.
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Nakamura regrets when he does not win
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Ending game with GMs
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Petrosian's King March Staggers Kasparov - Best Of The 1980s - Kasparov vs. Petrosian, 1981