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| | Mikhail Tal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Tal loved the game in itself and considered that "Chess, first of all, is Art." He was capable of playing numerous blitz games against unknown or relatively weak players purely for the joy of playing. | | | Tal, Mikhail (1997) The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal, Everyman Chess. | | | His play was not exceptional at first, but he worked hard at the game, and he began to receive tuition from Alexander Koblentz in 1949. |
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| | Mikhail Tal (November 9 1936 - June 28 1992) was a famous Latvian chess player. | | | Tal's best achievement was an equal first with Anatoly Karpov in the 1979 Montreal "Tournament of Stars" - there he played in his typical natural style and delivered a superb performance against the best grandmasters in the world at that time. | | | Tal's playing career was affected at several points by his ill-health. |
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| | World Champion - Mikhail Tal |
| | Tal soon became obsessed with the game and played as often as he could. | | | His father was a physician and the young Tal became interested in chess when he saw the game played in his father's waiting room. | | | He could even be seen playing a game or two of blitz chess between rounds at tournaments. |
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http://www.chessindia.org/WorldChampions_files/mikhail_tal.html
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| | Bill Wall's Chess Master Profiles - Tal |
| | In 1966 Tal was hit in the head with a bottle during a bar room fight at the 1966 chess olympiad in Havana. | | | Tal participated in the semi-finals of the USSR championship in Vilnius in 1955 and tied for 3rd-4th place. | | | He played close to 3,000 tournament games, winning over 65 percent of the time. |
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| | Misha in his Prime |
| | Mikhail Tal has been described as the finest writer ever to play master chess. | | | As late as 1979 Tal took first with Karpov in Montreal in what was then reckoned to be one of the strongest tournaments ever staged, then went on to win the Riga Interzonal by a clear 2½ points. | | | The applet displays the Annotations to Game One from Mikhail Tal's own book |
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| | The Magic of Mikhail Tal |
| | Some chess biographies focus on the person, and others focus on the player's games - if you prefer to learn about the player through his play, this is the book for you. | | | It is still disappointing that this book covers most of the chess tournaments via the box score approach - i.e., Tal finished with 10 of 15, which was good for a tie for first with player x, ahead of players y, z and others. | | | Of the 34 primary games, only seven are with Tal playing black and only one of these (against Ribli in 1985) occurs after 1979. |
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| | The great Mikhail Tal |
| | At this time, Tal was not unduly skilled at the game, he was no child prodigy. | | | I have about 10 books on Tal and his games. | | | His book, "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," remains in print even today. |
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| | Book Review |
| | For his six main chapters Gallagher has selected what he considers to be Tal's best 34 games, although he does also give other part games at times, such as to show how well Tal was playing in a certain tournament. | | | When one looks at the list of Tal's tournament results at the end of this book it becomes hard to question the grouping of the material into these chapters, and all the more so when one has read the biography and seem the games. | | | These main 34 games are annotated in some depth, with often five or six pages being devoted to just one game, and Gallagher does a good job at trying to explain Tal's thought processes during a game. |
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http://www.bcf.org.uk/articles/december2001/talrp.htm
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| | Biography of Mikhail Tal |
| | Tal explains that these reasons were 'journalism' and that he was unprepared for Botvinnik's aggression and preparedness to go into stormy positions, which he had not done in 1960. | | | You are in Biogs.com » Biography Directory » Chess Players » Mikhail Tal | | | Although dogged by health problems, Mikhail Tal was an active player until his death on 28 June 1992 in Moscow. |
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| | Since the universal club tradition at speed-chess sessions is that winner keeps playing and the loser gives up his place, Tal was often to be seen at the board with a long line of players queued up behind his opponent, waiting for their turn against the legend. | | | As Ragozin said, "Tal doesn't move the pieces by hand; he uses a magic wand!" Or, as Bronstein put it, "Tal develops all his pieces in the center and then sacrifices them somewhere." Tal was unique, even among the 14 men who have held the official world championship. | | | His games will continue to inspire new generations of players to find the swashbuckling and the beautiful in chess. |
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| | A web page devoted to ... M. TAL!!! |
| | Tal, Mikhail (1936-1992), Latvian chess player, who achieved international grandmaster status in 1957 and was world champion from 1960 to 1961. | | | Tal was a very intelligent person, (He attended University before age 16!); he learned the game of chess at a very early age while watching his parents and relatives play. | | | (Tal was the strongest player in the world from 1957 or '58 until 1961. |
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| | Life and Games of Mikhail Tal, The |
| | Tal's annotations in this book are a world apart from ordinary game collections. | | | Dazzling games are interspersed throughout with anecdotes and witty self-interviews, and in typically objective fashion he relates both the downs and ups of his encounters. | | | His illustrious tounament record, up to his death in 1992, is included here in full, along with 100 complete games and nearly as many positions. |
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http://www.bestofchess.com/lifandgamofm.html
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| | Tal 1960 - 1961 - Kings of Chess - Chess History - World Chess Network |
| | The chess story of Mikhail Tal, the combinational Wizard of Riga, is NOT even about the man’s oeuvre of extraordinary King-side attacking games with attendant sacrifices (Viktor Korchnoi and others have argued that Tal’s play, for all of its genial fireworks, has a stereotyped quality to it.). | | | The chess story of Mikhail Tal is NOT about stunning tournament results (for example, his 20 - 8 score at the great 1959 Bled-Zagreb-Belgrade candidates tournament). | | | During his games, Tal wished to go where no chess player had ever gone before, choosing the middlegame as his metier for creative expression. |
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http://www.worldchessnetwork.com/English/chessHistory/salute/kings/tal.php
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| | The Riga Magician |
| | Tal excelled in complications and himself commented "One doesn't have to play well, one has to play better than the opponent". | | | He was not a "correct" player - improvements were often found for his opponents, improvements that would have won the games. | | | Also, Ragozin's comment on Tal's style has become famous:"Tal does not move pieces by hand, he uses a magic wand". |
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| | ChessNinja.com & TWIC Message Boards: Best Book on Mikhail Tal |
| | Tal tells about his way of thinking and the feelings that is going around in his mind. | | | I don't have any other books on Tal, but I just picked up the Life and Games of Mikhail Tal last week and I must say it is fantastic. | | | The 'Life & Games' is THE book on Tal. |
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| | Daily Chess Columns |
| | Tal became an idol of young chess players of the late 50s. | | | In 1956 the young master from Riga, played for the first time in the Soviet Championship tying with Polugayevsky for the 5th place, but in the two subsequent USSR Championships – in 1957 and 1958 – he wins the title of the Champion of the greatest chess super-power. | | | It was a challenge to Botvinnik, to all his followers who were trying to put the game into the Procrustean Bed of cold logic and algorithms. |
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http://www.chessbase.com/columns/column.asp?pid=134
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: Tal-Botvinnik 1960 |
| | Tal splendidly explains the psychology behind each game, and often times behind individual moves. | | | This match was also important theoretically since in most games the Caro-Kann (when Tal is white) and the King's Indian Defense (Tal is black) are played and each side attempts to improve upon the theory of the time. | | | The young genius Tal, the Wizard of Riga, put magic back into the game by defeating Botvinnik... |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1888690089
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| | Mikhail Tal |
| | As late as 1979 Tal took 1st= with Karpov in Montreal in what was then reckoned to be one of the strongest tournaments ever staged, then went on to win the Riga Interzonal by a clear 2½ points. | | | Chess players the world over will always argue about who was the greatest player who ever lived, who the finest attacker, who the best all rounder, who the most imaginative, with each putting forward his own favourite. | | | In the 80's he surprised many by playing quite sucessfully in the Grand Prix tournaments after a period which had seen rumours of his death. |
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| | Directory - Games: Board Games: Abstract: Battle Games: Chess: People: World Champions: Tal, Mikhail |
| | Chess Poster: Mikhail Tal · cached · Features a game playable through a java applet and a description of his career and playing style. | | | World Chess Championship 1960: Tal - Botvinnik · iweb · cached · Includes downloadable.PGN games, crosstable, and key game positions. | | | Directory - Games: Board Games: Abstract: Battle Games: Chess: People: World Champions: Tal, Mikhail |
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| | The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal |
| | Put in one hundred of Tal's games (annotated by the late World Champion) and mix in an additional one hundred positions. | | | As is common in most chess autobiographies, you don't get much of a sense about his life away from the game. | | | If he wasn't playing in a tournament he was playing blitz or talking about the latest chess news; nobody adored chess as much as Tal did! |
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http://www.jeremysilman.com/book_reviews_js/js_life_games_mikhail_tal.html
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| | Seagaard - Chess Reviews |
| | All games are annotated in Informant-style, and was done by the same team that wrote the book about "Mikhail Tal - Games" a 4-volume series from the Publisher Chess Stars. | | | Besides the games this CD-ROM also contains an tutorial called "Play as Tal" that includes 260 "quiz positions" in which you can try to find strong and beautiful moves played by Tal in his games. | | | Besides this you can see Tal's result from the tournaments if you click on the tournament name. |
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http://seagaard.dk/review/eng/sw_collection/con_mikhail_tal.asp?KATID=SW&ID=SW-Collection
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| | Chess Archaeology |
| | Tal’s second display was an eight board clock simultaneous (40 moves in 2 hours) against a strong Warsaw team. | | | Tal at the press conference said “Adamski had chosen the best strategy, he played on the whole board and forced me to control - in my calculations - every and all fields of the chessboard.” | | | The single player was in excellent form and gave up only three draws to his opponents. |
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http://www.chessarch.com/excavations/0014_tal/tal.shtml
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| | The chess games of Mikhail Tal |
| | 50 games better than that other Tal game. | | | With more and more players, there will be more and more players producing incongruous data and causing natural inflation. | | | : Tal's knack for intuitive sacrifices that brought home the point seems to amaze players at the very highest level and novices as well. |
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| | Russian Chess Books @ Chessplayer.com |
| | Total of 324 games, many of which are annotated by Tal. | | | Total of 615 games, many annotated by Tal. | | | Notes by Spassky to Match in Reykjavik, etc. Recollections and game commentary by Tigran Petrosian, Mikhail Tal, Boris Spassky and other Soviet grandmasters. |
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http://www.chessplayer.com/russian_books.html
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| | Chess21 - Shop - Product - Magic of Mikhail Tal |
| | Despite periodic bouts of ill-health Tal occupied a place in the world's top ten for most of this period, winning anyFor club and tournament players. | | | With his unique attacking style, he dazzled the chess world on the way to becoming the youngest ever World Champion (at that time) in 1960, winning friends around the world for both his entertaining play and engaging personality. | | | Few players have captured the public imagination like the former World Champion Mikhail Tal. |
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| | John Pugh - February 2001 |
| | Reading the comments of the very strongest correspondence players they seem to give special attention to the opening as the foundation of the game. | | | The following year exercising his right to a rematch Botvinnik defeated him in a rematch and although he was to win many a tournament and play many great games the magic and excitement of those early years was never regained. | | | As Tal said, " I shall observe for the thousand and first time: years of analysis and minutes of play are not quite the same thing. |
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Life & Games of Mikhail Tal |
| | Tal's fortitude as a player is second to none and his abilities as a plaer are well recorded. | | | It is arranged chronologically, with every chapter containing two part: first, the personal and "chessic" biography of Tal during the period discussed in the chapter, and then, a selection of games (annotated by him) played in that period. | | | It shows not only the lines Tal was considering, but also the psychology of the game, Tal's stylistic preferences, and so on. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1857442024?v=glance
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| | Mikhail Tal Chess Champion Quotes |
| | "Tal doesn't move the pieces by hand; he uses a magic wand." | | | -- Mikhail Tal (upon hearing Bobby Fischer’s claim that he could beat any female player in the world giving a knights odds.) | | | It is difficult to play against Einstein’s theory. |
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| | Attack with Mikhail Tal |
| | All in all there are 16 complete games by Tal, 36 test problems, and more than 100 positions. | | | However what is here is of extremely high quality- each chapter in Attack With Tal starts out with dozens of example positions, then a few complete games by Tal, and then some test problems. | | | The diagrams were not labeled with which side to move, so I had to go through the book and check the diagrams off with a pencil- this way I can study the positions before reading the text and the solution. |
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| | Mikhail Botvinnik - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | On the one hand, his achievements were undoubtedly impressive and it should be remembered that his main rivals, the younger Paul Keres, David Bronstein, Vasily Smyslov, Mikhail Tal and Tigran Petrosian were all formidable players in their own right. | | | It is perhaps surprising that Mikhail Botvinnik is not widely regarded as a contender for the title of best player of all time. | | | Secondly, he was one of the only world-class chess players who at the same time had a long and distinguished career in another field - the Soviet government decorated him for his achievements in engineering, and Fine has recounted stories which strongly imply that Botvinnik was as committed to engineering as he was to chess. |
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| | Mikhail Tal vs Michael Pasman (1953) |
| | 50 games better than that other Tal game. | | | I'm still not sure there is a God, but playing through Tal's games makes me think that there might be a Devil... | | | : Tal's games look like Fritz playing a complete amateur in an open position... |
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| | Tal Collection |
| | A collection of all 2,857 games of Mikhail Tal | | | But more than this, it was the art of his attacking play that conquered the hearts of the chess fans all over the world. | | | The meteoric rise with which the young Tal took the chess world by storm at the end of the 50s and seized the world champion’s title from Botvinnik in 1960 is already sufficient to grant him a special place in the world of chess. |
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| | Amazon API Demo - Books - Mikhail Tal: Tactical Genius (Masters (Everyman Chess)) - Chris Codes |
| | If this is true for you, I recommend looking into "The Life and games of Mikhail Tal" or "The Magic of Mikhail Tal", neither book of which I own but have good reveiws and are books that I will be looking into because they both seem to match my specification criteria. | | | Being a very aggresive and tactical player myself and never having read a game collection of Tal's, I was very excited about buying this book. | | | Rather than present and show you Tal's best games and combinations with annotations, each chapter begins with one or two of Tal's games and then gives you puzzles which are positions from Tal's games in which you are meant to work out his continuation. |
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| | Hardinge Simpole - Mikhail Tal's Best Games of Chess |
| | Hardinge Simpole - Mikhail Tal's Best Games of Chess | | | Peter Clarke won numerous silver medals in the British Championships, he represented England in the World Championship cycle and he played top board for England in the Chess Olympiad at Havana 1966. | | | Subject [Chess ] [Tal ] [c 1945 to c 1960 ] |
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| | Mikhail Tal – 8th World Champion Chess Software |
| | A special tutorial section, Play As Tal, includes 260 carefully chosen quiz positions where you get to find both the strongest and most beautiful moves played by Tal. | | | It also includes the biography, the tournament and match records, plus 45 rare photos. | | | Tal the Magnificent - The most complete collection of Tal’s games ever compiled. |
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| | Mikhail Tal - 8th World Champion |
| | special tutorial section, >«Play As Tal», includes 260 quiz positions in which you can try to find strong and beautiful moves played by Tal in his games. | | | he most complete collection of Tal’s games ever compiled. |
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| | NYCHESSKIDS: Mikhail Tal |
| | Always a dashing player, Tal became a very prominent challenger in the Olympiads. | | | Tal is considered by many to be the greatest attacking genius of modern chess. | | | Tal held the world championship title for one year, beating Botvinnik by four points to win the honor. |
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| | BIGpedia - Tal - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online |
| | Mikhail Tal (1936 - 1992), Latvian chess player | | | TAL is an acronym for TransOceanic Abort Landing. | | | TAL is an acronym for This American Life (a weekly hour-long radio program produced by WBEZ in Chicago and distributed by PRI). |
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| | Alibris: Mikhail Tal |
| | The young attacking genius Mikhail Tal, the "Wizard of Riga", put the magic back into the game by defeating Botvinnik with spectacular tactics in one of the most dramatic and celebrated world championship matches of all time. | | | Tal's winning chess combinations : the secrets of winning chess combinations described and explained by the Russian Grandmaster Mikhail Tal | | | In 1960 Mikhail Botvinnik was the pillar of "scientific" -- chess and the iron-willed champion of the world. |
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| | Lexikonia - le informazioni circa Mikhail Tal |
| | Mikhail Nekhemievich Tal (9 novembre 1936 - 28 giugno 1992) fu un famoso scacchista lituano. | | | Introdusse uno stile di gioco intuitivo, in contrasto con l'approccio scientifico degli altri grandi maestri. | | | Tra gli attuali giocatori di vertice, Alexei Shirov è probabilmente stato molto influenzato o ispirato dallo stile di Tal. |
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http://www.lexikonia.org/12313_mikhail_tal.htm
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| | Chess21 - Shop - Product - Mikhail Tal Tactical Genius |
| | As former World Champion Vassily Smyslov once noted, Tal's appearance in chess had the effect of an exploding bomb, since his style of play was distinguished by extraordinary combinative brilliance. | | | The authors have carefully picked his most famous and instructive games and combinations, ones which set the chess world alight with admiration. | | | The "magician from Riga" stunned the chess world when he became the youngest ever World Champion (at that time) in 1960, and he won countless supporters for his scintillating tactical play and his infectious enthusiasm for the game. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Mikhail Tal |
| | Tal, Mikhail (1936-1992), Latvian chess player, who achieved international grandmaster status in 1957 and was world champion from 1960 to 1961. | | | Search for books about your topic, "Mikhail Tal" | | | How well did we match your search term? |
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| | Everyman Chess Attack with Mikhail Tal |
| | His departure has taken away one of the chess world's most charismatic figures; a player who excited chess passions wherever he went. | | | The legendary Mikhail Tal was the finest ever exponent of attacking chess. | | | Dogged by ill-health, Tal's reign was a short one, and he was never able to regain his crown, but Tal remained an outstanding player right up to his death in 1992. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Books: Attack with Mikhail Tal |
| | In other words: A good book for the intermediate players and upwards.. | | | The drawback is, however, that the reader should be fairly familiar with chess and especially good at tactics to meet the required level. | | | One is not as afraid to take sacrifices into account after reading the book, and I think anyone who denies sacrifices in general should read this book to review their policy on this subject. |
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