Viktor Korchnoi, pictured in Westzaan (Zaanstad), The Netherlands, on 12th August 1976, shortly after his defection from the Soviet Union. The book on the table in the first photo is 'The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal'.
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▪️ Mikhail Tal
▪️Latvian-Soviet chess Grandmaster
♦️ Mikhail Nekhemyevich Tal was a Soviet Latvian chess Grandmaster and the eighth World Chess Champion. Widely regarded as a creative genius and one of the best attacking players of all time, Tal played in a daring, combinatorial style.
🔸 Full name: Latvian: Mihails Tāls
🔸 Country: Latvia
🔸 Born: 9 November 1936
Riga, Latvia
🔸 Died : 28 June 1992 (aged 55)
Moscow, Russia
🔸 Title: Grandmaster (1957)
🔸 World Champion: 1960–61
🔸 Peak rating: 2705 (January 1980)
♦️Tal first qualified for the USSR Chess Championship final in 1956, finishing joint fifth, and became the youngest player to win it the following year, at the age of 20. He had not played in enough international tournaments to qualify for the title of Grandmaster, but FIDE decided at its 1957 Congress to waive the normal restrictions and award him the title because of his achievement in winning the Soviet Championship. At that time, the Soviet Union was dominant in world chess, and Tal had beaten several of the world's top players to win the tournament.
Tal made three appearances for the USSR at Student Olympiads in 1956–58, winning three team gold medals and three board gold medals. He won nineteen games, drew eight, and lost none, for 85.2 percent.
He retained the Soviet Championship title in 1958 at Riga, and competed in the World Chess Championship for the first time. He won the 1958 Interzonal tournament at Portorož, then helped the Soviet Union win its fourth consecutive Chess Olympiad at Munich.
♦️ A memorable game by Tall which known "Crying Over Spilt Milko" in chessgames.com site 👇🏼
🔹 Milko Bobotsov vs Mikhail Tal
🔹 WchT U26 fin-A 05th (1958), Varna BUL, rd 2, Jul-??
🔹 King's Indian Defense: Saemisch. Bobotsov-Korchnoi-Petrosian Variation (E81)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼
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▪️ Mikhail Tal
▪️Latvian-Soviet chess Grandmaster
♦️ Mikhail Nekhemyevich Tal was a Soviet Latvian chess Grandmaster and the eighth World Chess Champion. Widely regarded as a creative genius and one of the best attacking players of all time, Tal played in a daring, combinatorial style.
🔸 Full name: Latvian: Mihails Tāls
🔸 Country: Latvia
🔸 Born: 9 November 1936
Riga, Latvia
🔸 Died : 28 June 1992 (aged 55)
Moscow, Russia
🔸 Title: Grandmaster (1957)
🔸 World Champion: 1960–61
🔸 Peak rating: 2705 (January 1980)
♦️Tal first qualified for the USSR Chess Championship final in 1956, finishing joint fifth, and became the youngest player to win it the following year, at the age of 20. He had not played in enough international tournaments to qualify for the title of Grandmaster, but FIDE decided at its 1957 Congress to waive the normal restrictions and award him the title because of his achievement in winning the Soviet Championship. At that time, the Soviet Union was dominant in world chess, and Tal had beaten several of the world's top players to win the tournament.
Tal made three appearances for the USSR at Student Olympiads in 1956–58, winning three team gold medals and three board gold medals. He won nineteen games, drew eight, and lost none, for 85.2 percent.
He retained the Soviet Championship title in 1958 at Riga, and competed in the World Chess Championship for the first time. He won the 1958 Interzonal tournament at Portorož, then helped the Soviet Union win its fourth consecutive Chess Olympiad at Munich.
♦️ A memorable game by Tall which known "Crying Over Spilt Milko" in chessgames.com site 👇🏼
🔹 Milko Bobotsov vs Mikhail Tal
🔹 WchT U26 fin-A 05th (1958), Varna BUL, rd 2, Jul-??
🔹 King's Indian Defense: Saemisch. Bobotsov-Korchnoi-Petrosian Variation (E81)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼
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📘 28...Qe8?
Shankland could have grabbed a pawn:
28...N×f4! 29.B×f4 Q×d4+ 30.Kh1 Q×f4! -+
29.Qf3 Qe3+ 30.Q×e3 N×e3 31.Rf3 Nd5 -/+
Shankland could have grabbed a pawn:
28...N×f4! 29.B×f4 Q×d4+ 30.Kh1 Q×f4! -+
29.Qf3 Qe3+ 30.Q×e3 N×e3 31.Rf3 Nd5 -/+
📘 Caruana obtained a huge advantage with a sequence of active moves.
18...g5! 19.Nd5
19.Nh3 Nfg4! -/+
19...N×d5! 20.c×d5 Bf6!
Intending Nxd3.
24.Qc4 Rb4 25.Q×d3 B×d4+ 26.Be3 B×a1 -+
18...g5! 19.Nd5
19.Nh3 Nfg4! -/+
19...N×d5! 20.c×d5 Bf6!
Intending Nxd3.
24.Qc4 Rb4 25.Q×d3 B×d4+ 26.Be3 B×a1 -+
📘 43. b5??
Lenderman needs only to prevent the Black king from penetrating to the kingside:
43. h4! g5 44. b5 Kg6 45. Kd3 Kf6 46. Kd4 axb5 47. Kc3 gxh4 48.gxh4 Ke5 49. Kb4 Kxd5 50. Kxb5 Ke4 51. Kb6 =
43... Kg5 44. e4 fxe4 45. bxa6 bxa6 46. Kxe4 g6! 47. Ke3 Kf5 48. Kd4 g5 49. h4 g4 50. Kd3 Ke5 51. Ke3 Kxd5 52. Kd3 Ke5 53. Kc3 d5 54. Kd3 d4 55. Kc4 Ke4 0-1
Lenderman needs only to prevent the Black king from penetrating to the kingside:
43. h4! g5 44. b5 Kg6 45. Kd3 Kf6 46. Kd4 axb5 47. Kc3 gxh4 48.gxh4 Ke5 49. Kb4 Kxd5 50. Kxb5 Ke4 51. Kb6 =
43... Kg5 44. e4 fxe4 45. bxa6 bxa6 46. Kxe4 g6! 47. Ke3 Kf5 48. Kd4 g5 49. h4 g4 50. Kd3 Ke5 51. Ke3 Kxd5 52. Kd3 Ke5 53. Kc3 d5 54. Kd3 d4 55. Kc4 Ke4 0-1
📘 16...Ba7?
Akobian's carelessness. He should have played 16...Bd8. Now. Nakamura exploits the absence of the Black dark-squared bishop on the a3-f8 diagonal.
17.B×f5! e×f5 18.Ba3 Rc8 19.b5 a×b5 20.R×b5 Nd8 21.Qb1 +/-
Akobian's carelessness. He should have played 16...Bd8. Now. Nakamura exploits the absence of the Black dark-squared bishop on the a3-f8 diagonal.
17.B×f5! e×f5 18.Ba3 Rc8 19.b5 a×b5 20.R×b5 Nd8 21.Qb1 +/-
📘19.g4
White intends to put more pressure on the weak d5-pawn. To reach this goal, he clears the g2-square for his queen and prepares to drive away the black knight with g5.
19...Bc6 20.Qg2 N8d7 21.g5.
White intends to put more pressure on the weak d5-pawn. To reach this goal, he clears the g2-square for his queen and prepares to drive away the black knight with g5.
19...Bc6 20.Qg2 N8d7 21.g5.