Great Players of the Past: Mikhail Tal
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Published 2023-03-28
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Tal, Mikhail vs. Fischer, Robert James
Bled-Zagreb-Belgrade Candidates (1959)
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Gurgenidze, Bukhuti vs. Tal, Mikhail
USSR Championship (1957)
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Tal, Mikhail vs. Tringov, Georgi
Amsterdam Interzonal (1964)
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Tal, Mikhail vs. Petrosian, Tigran V.
8th Soviet Team Cup (1974)
Recorded at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Atlanta on November 6, 2018 and originally posted on the CCSCATL Channel on April 16, 2019. So yes, you've probably seen this one before.
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All Comments (21)
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Ben: "who did petrosian beat to become world champion?" Kid: "uhhh... you?" Ben: "close"
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“Fischer wouldn’t play that now, you know what the reasons are? He’s not alive.”😂😂
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Your sense of humor will never get old
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37:24 "And then he moved his pawn back, and they agreed to a draw." His delivery of that line as if it's something that really happened really made me cracked up. Ben never fails combining chess and comedy. I just love it
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8 minutes in, thinking "I swear I've heard this before" then I finally read the description. Kinda feel cheated, but watching the rest of it anyway.
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When Tal was ill and in the hospital, Fischer was the only chess player who visited. he brought Tal some chess books to read.
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greetings from Latvia, Ben!
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The second game was played with white pieces by Hanging Pawns couple of months ago as his training. His opponent was probably the happiest person ever for getting into this variation :)
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Tal was the chess Doc Holliday. "I'm your Huckleberry.."
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the hozier joke was genius
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Great video! Thank you so much! ❤
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Took me several seconds to parse the Obi-van Benoni R2D2 joke. No chance to do that in real time.
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Thanks Ben, great lecture..
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Would love to see a lecture about Ivanchuk. Some great attacking games to pick from. I know, he is still playing, but he was also playing in the past, so maybe that still works :)
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23:08 I love it 😂
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"He used to be young, oh, maybe that's not Tal" LMAO
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We absolutely love your lectures ben!
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One problem with Tal is that whenever he suffered any kind of reverse, people automatically blamed his health. Like when Polugaevsky knocked him out of the 1980 Candidates, everybody said "Oh, Tal must be sick again." It wasn't until the internet let you look it up and see that Tal was only +2-8=22 against Polugaevsky lifetime that you start to think maybe Polugaevsky did win that match fair and square after all.
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27:13 is beautiful - the white rook that is about to be taken with 'check', is the piece supporting the queen to give mate. Rooks are good support beams.
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For Ben's 'Great Players of the Present series it would be a lot of fun, if he did an episode on his old nemesis Ginger GM Simon Williams.
