The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal by Mikhail Tal

The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal by Mikhail Tal

Author:Mikhail Tal [Tal, Mikhail]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Everyman Chess
Published: 2012-05-30T03:00:00+00:00


13 ♕d6! ♕xc3 14 ♖ed1 ♘d7 15 ♗xf7+! ♔xf7 16 ♘g5+ ♔e8 17 ♕e6+ 1-0 in view of the mate in two moves.

As a result, the Soviet players who reached the Candidates event were Spassky, Smyslov and myself: we shared first to fourth places with Larsen.

Two weeks later I set off for Kislovodsk with the most unlucky player from the Interzonal Tournament, L. Stein, to play ‘non-elimination’ chess in the traditional tournament of the USSR Central Chess Club. I expected that Stein would attempt to exact moral revenge and the battle was indeed pretty sharp, and ... amusing.

In one of the early rounds I succeeded in playing what was perhaps the most interesting game in the tournament, exacting revenge against Liberzon for my defeat the previous year.

Tal – Liberzon

Kislovodsk, 1964

Sicilian Defence

1 e4 c5 2 ♘f3 ♘c6 3 d4 cxd4 4 ♘xd4 ♘f6 5 ♘c3 e6 6 ♘db5 ♗b4 7 a3 ♗xc3+ 8 ♘xc3 d5 9 exd5 ♘xd5 10 ♗d2 0-0 11 ♕h5! ♘xc3 12 ♗xc3 e5 13 ♗d3 g6 14 ♕h6 ♕f6 15 0-0! But not 15 0-0-0 ♗f5! 15...♕g7 16 ♕e3! Threatening 17 f4. 16...g5 17 h4 h6 18 hxg5 hxg5 19 f3 ♗e6 20 ♔f2 ♘d4 21 ♖ae1 Preventing the blocking of the b1-h7 diagonal. 21...♘c6 22 ♖h1 Transposing into an ending a pawn up by 22 ♗xe5 ♘xe5 23 ♕xe5 ♖ae8 24 ♖h1 seemed insufficient to me. 22...f6 23 ♖h7 ♕xh7 24 ♗xh7+ ♔xh7 25 ♕d3+ ♔g7 26 ♖h1 ♖h8 27 ♖xh8 ♖xh8 28 ♕d6 ♖e8 29 b4 a6 30 a4 ♔f7 31 ♕d3 ♔g7 32 b5 ♖d8 33 ♕e4 ♗d5 34 ♕g4 axb5 35 axb5 ♘e7 36 ♗b4 ♘g6 37 ♗a5 ♖a8 38 ♕d7+ ♗f7 (D)



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