I loved his Madman look later on-Fischers antics and attitude brought me to chess but Tal is my idol--He looks terrible here but still such a genius and an attcking madman--whats better than that!!! RIP and long live the Magician from Riga
I think he looks awesome, he has that mad genius type of look about him, I think it's great. xD Only thing is I wish this was when he was 90 and not 55, I wonder if he might have been a closet drug addict.
@ytmndman Tal was ill but he sneaked out of the hospital to take part in a tournament.
Kasparov : "Tal played the last blitz tournament in Moscow (8 men and two rounds). I won the tournament but lost one game to Tal. Tal made an incorrect sacrifice, I repelled his attack but lost on time because I couldn't solve problems set by Tal. It's some elevated chess truth that even in his last days, Tal played the kind of chess which brought him his immortal fame."
@ytmndman One of Tal's acquaintances greeted Tal. "Thank you" said Tal. "Why ?" asked the other one. "Because you recognised me" was the answer. At the moment, Tal was only 55 years old.
todays GMs are only memorizing moves from computers, and the old GMs like Tal learned from books, only if they had them. so taking these facts in consideration Tal or any old GM is better and bigger genious than todays GMs ( carlsen,topalov even kasparov )
A very special chess talent, Mikhail Tal! Perhaps not the greatest player ever - but still special. I learned a lot from Tal's games. The economy of his openings alone, how he gets his opponents to give him tempi - forget the fantastic combinations - is well worth studying. In fact I am convinced the latter come naturally our of the former.
He liked to drink and smoke, even while playing... That's why he died at 55. At the end, doctors said that all of his organs were failing, but he kept smoking.
i think than he looked very beautiful here, wonderful !! we must remenber than he came from hospital to play this game !! the love for chess was his force !! a great lesson ! thank you mikhail, RIP, i'm sure that, in heaven, you have already played good games with God with your magic sacrifices ! ;-))
O cara aí que está comentando no vídeo não é nada mais nada menos que o Deus desse esporte Gary Kasparov 30 epoucas vezes campeão mundial!!!!!!!!Não existe ninguém na história do xadrez que se compare a ele nem antes e nem depois,é o Schumacher desse esporte e de tão inteligente que esse Russo é foram criados dois mega-computadores para desafiá-lo e ele venceu um e perdeu para o outro a história disso é meio complicada.E ainda está muito bem vivo
In the past our teachers were always the grandmasters and worldchampions, nowadays our teachers are the computers. They play , solve and compose . So have a look at youtube.com :
Sad to see this. A great chess player Tal was. This game was won by Tal on time against Kasparov. Strange how a frail and physically weak Tal was strong in his mind and fast on his brain to win this on time against a young Kasparov. I heard he came from his hospital bed to play this game, and passed away a couple of days later.
@neelaakaasham Its not a translation. Its actually cyrillic characters. Russian language uses this type of characters. Its form is similar tho not quite to that of greek lettering. So Garry Kasparov = Гарри Касларов Г =G, а = a, р= r, и=ee, К=K, с= s, л=p, о= o, в=v
Poor Tal....A tragedy that such a brilliant mind was stuck inside of such a fragile body. It is beyond belief that he was only55 when he died....he looks 155. Poor bastard! And we are all the poorer for his poor physical health! Who knows if ANYONE could ever have dethroned him if he was healthy??!
Yeah your right but then he was an alcohlic and substance abuser all his life. Plus, he smoked two packs of cigarettes everyday! All his life he was ill with kidney disease and even had a transplant when younger.
Enough with those insults you two, we're in front of the best chess player of all time, my chess idol and the most modest player i have ever seen in my life, may he R.I.P, anyways, this video is from the Moscow blitz tourney, 1992, he sneaked from hospital just to play this, he beat Kasparov, then returned back to his hospital bed, but never went out of there again .. what a loss...
Very polite, but you should understand that if you insult someone, there might be a reaction. No one knew Tal better than he knew himself, not even Sosonko and definitely not you.
'...but you should understand that if you insult someone, there might be a reaction...' Who's insulting who? I was informing the people on your "that's what they say" about Tal sneaking out. Read the biography of the man, and you'll have better grounds than relying on hearsays. It is you who threw the insult with your "read...if you like...nothing is stopping you..."
You have based all your comments on your own presumptions -- I was not "relying on hearsays" but using a figure of speech. I knew the story and I read the biography. Have YOU read it?? So perhaps now you understand that your comment was insulting.
ah, figures of speech. Which one? reading a biography and tell the world "that's what they say" ??? without the former, that's hearsay. With the former, now it's concrete. But your "nothing is stopping you" is just plain insulting, and you better look again in a mirror before you jump to another conclusion.
That's right, that's exactly what I said, and I meant to say it. But you're not intelligent enough to understand the use of an idiom, so you continue to proceed with presumption and personal attacks. And that's just fine. If you need to air out your frustrations, then feel free. Tal's career is not affected by your ego.
me, attacking you? for what? you're an onion when you read my "read his bio...". I tried to support your statements of Tal sneaking out, pointing that Tal did that on several occasions. Hospitals could not limit his passion for chess. But you took that as an insult and were already on the defensive.
am i not right when i said "how much more stupid can you get?" You said "Tal's career is not affected by your ego..." So you took me as an anti-Tal all along! I love Tal very much. It is your egoistic remarks that buries you deeper in your stupidity as these arguments progress. "Not intelligent enough"? HaHaHa! Watch your logic, you got lots of fallacies.
Don't ask yourself about his iq, ask for his will-strengh... He beat his- according to the doctors unhealable - cancer for a long time ( I think 20 years or something around that) and played high-level chess while being terribly ill. ... Look at him in this condition and feel this strength... It's also mental, but it's so much more than a high IQ! . ...
"mad genius" is a playful, affectionate moniker as often as not- to Americans, anyway: Consider the eminent Dr. Emmet Brown, from "Back to the Future". I agree, Tal looks like he could dive into his coat, pull a lever, and eject from the tournament via rocket-chair. [Awsome]
Tal was a great gentleman, and a genius. You bastards, don't joke with his appearance. You are like street dogs, in my eyes! Also, he had health problems all his life.
These names reverberate through my youth... Tal; Petrosian; Alekhine; Botvinnik; but I also remember the words of Vladimir Nabokov in his brilliant novel "The Defence"; "That the greatest minds spend 20, 30, 40 years, in the ludicrous attempt to corner a wooden King on a wooden board". Read it and beware the siren-song of Chess.
Bad health was nothing new to Tal; in 1969 he had a kidney operation after bad results (he similarly suffered from bad health in the 1961 rematch against Botvinnik), and in the 70's he went on a long winning spree.
All right. He was old and sick at the time of this videos, come on! If you were 60 and more something, and had some disfunction in the liver. Come on, guy. He doesn't look as bad as Michael Jackson, and more, he wasn't this ugly when he was younger.
THAT'S EXACTLY MY POINT FROM THE BEGINNING....he looked completely fine when he was younger and after all his health complications his appearance make him look like serious hell. So as I expressed earlier, "What the hell happened to him?!" but after my research I found out.
Maybe because Kasparov loses were big news? Kasparov was #1 on FIDE list for 20 years. That's amazing how anyone can stay #1 on the list for that long, given he played a lot and new generation and new kids made it to top in those 20 years. He was still #1 on the list when he retired.
Kasparov: "I won the tournament [blitz tournament in 1992] but lost one match to Tal. I fought off an attack with a wrong piece and eventually ran out of time because, in 5 minutes, I wasn't able to deal with the problems posed by Tal."
Kasparov: "That's presumably some kind of higher power that despite Tal literally being on his last legs (hope that's the right idiom ^^) he was STILL in condition to be able to play that chess that made him immortal."
Different times due to health. One was going in the other coming out. Prime on prime...., Tal, I don't believe, would win the majority, just like Spassky didn't. However, it would have been nice to have seen them play a set of tournament games in the late sixties/early seventies. The late fifties and early sixties, even though Bobby was great, he wasn't that great yet (as Tal displayed).
Kasparov: Tal played last in Moscow. There were 8 people. we played 2 rounds, and i won the tournament, but i lost one of its matches to Tal. Tal lost a [unclear], I fought off the attack, and ran out of time. It took me 5mins to respond to the attack posed by Tal...Even at the end he was able to play the same quality chess that brought him immortality
Narrator: An acquaintance once greeted Tal. Tal said "Thank you." "Thank you for what?" wondered the acquaintance. " "For recognizing." At the time, he was only 55 years old.
Ya wanna real freak out, google "Tal's right hand"...it's reported he had 3 fingers from a birth defect, what he had was a montrous looking lobster claw thing, that's why he's always shown using his left hand.
He suffered with a kidney complaint for most of his adult life, which is why he under acheived for had he been healthy who knows how much more the Prince of chess might have accomplished.
just today i read a story of Jan Timman about Tal in a new dutch chess fanzine...
mattenschaakverhalen dot nl
it appeared that Tal was in very bad physical condition (hospital visits etc) for many years...also he was addicted to smoking, drinkeing and woman....
love this vid...Tal was a monster at blitz
patxer 1 week ago
rest in peace champ
polisawam 3 weeks ago
I re-uploaded this clip with English subtitles. It's on my channel. Give this a thumbs up to spread the word :)
RooskiChess 1 month ago 5
What's this..!! Kasparov speaks better russian than english
Za7a7aZ 2 months ago
Rip Tal the greatest chessplayer ever
Orfeus2009 2 months ago
tal rocking the mad sciebtist look :/ loved the mans games, him kasparov and alekhine, my favorites!
Minkki82 3 months ago
To win over Kasparov in blitz while being deadly ill is beyond amazing.
leifmp 3 months ago 2
last footage of tal. wow
ChessNoir 4 months ago
Tal had a right hand like a lobster. No shit. A lobster.
drnantz 4 months ago
@drnantz Boy, that would make masturbation a bit difficult.
Alazog83 4 months ago
@Alazog83 Not with my package
drnantz 4 months ago
Tal. The Magician from Riga. Thanks for your magic.
rufjvm2008 5 months ago
When Tal played chess, it was just magical!
josephebacon 5 months ago
I loved his Madman look later on-Fischers antics and attitude brought me to chess but Tal is my idol--He looks terrible here but still such a genius and an attcking madman--whats better than that!!! RIP and long live the Magician from Riga
JJI6881 6 months ago
I think he looks awesome, he has that mad genius type of look about him, I think it's great. xD Only thing is I wish this was when he was 90 and not 55, I wonder if he might have been a closet drug addict.
RaniaIsAwesome 6 months ago
Tal really was amazing. And he liked his alcohol to like me. :)
wrich1162 6 months ago
Translation please?
ytmndman 8 months ago
@ytmndman Tal was ill but he sneaked out of the hospital to take part in a tournament.
Kasparov : "Tal played the last blitz tournament in Moscow (8 men and two rounds). I won the tournament but lost one game to Tal. Tal made an incorrect sacrifice, I repelled his attack but lost on time because I couldn't solve problems set by Tal. It's some elevated chess truth that even in his last days, Tal played the kind of chess which brought him his immortal fame."
Angel1405 8 months ago
@ytmndman One of Tal's acquaintances greeted Tal. "Thank you" said Tal. "Why ?" asked the other one. "Because you recognised me" was the answer. At the moment, Tal was only 55 years old.
Angel1405 8 months ago
anyone who loves chess can learn so much from this guy certainly one of the best players ever
buzzbox2nd 9 months ago
ooo el gran maestro en las ultimas
masterchief931 9 months ago
todays GMs are only memorizing moves from computers, and the old GMs like Tal learned from books, only if they had them. so taking these facts in consideration Tal or any old GM is better and bigger genious than todays GMs ( carlsen,topalov even kasparov )
mightymax1992 9 months ago
Smyslov, Tal, Bronstein - all died in poverty without gratitude
ears61 10 months ago
A very special chess talent, Mikhail Tal! Perhaps not the greatest player ever - but still special. I learned a lot from Tal's games. The economy of his openings alone, how he gets his opponents to give him tempi - forget the fantastic combinations - is well worth studying. In fact I am convinced the latter come naturally our of the former.
HickysBoy 11 months ago
tal is the only man that fischer feared...a just emotion as tal was clearly the most grand of the two masters...
thetruthis9 1 year ago 3
Nothing normal about Tal, perhaps the only genius in chess other than Morphy.
Only Kasparov comes close in this era of technique above talent.
He was like Ali in that he made it seem so effortless in his youth, but later had to acknowledge his own mortality by changing his style.
thomastearns 1 year ago
He liked to drink and smoke, even while playing... That's why he died at 55. At the end, doctors said that all of his organs were failing, but he kept smoking.
renumeratedfrog 1 year ago
Actually, Tal was very good looking when he was in his 20 and had a head of full of hair. Just do a Google Images search.
renumeratedfrog 1 year ago
Dont losse your time speaking with those bastards, acveyalikurt.
federayk37 1 year ago
one amazing characteristic last game by Tal. he opened with e4, sacrificed his knight and kasparov lost on time being in serious trouble
mshrum555 1 year ago
see the young picture of tal...see how handsome he is with that cigarette
goutham32kog 1 year ago
tal won wow awesome
msn140 1 year ago
he was only 55, look at how bad tal looks.
jonny366 1 year ago
we are ALL going to get old one day..whoever is making fun of Tal, I'll curse you with maladies!
ItalianWarrior777 1 year ago 2
With a leg and a feet in the grave still playing much better than we will ever able to do.
obender71 1 year ago 6
@obender71 so true. very good point
aanglero 1 year ago
i think than he looked very beautiful here, wonderful !! we must remenber than he came from hospital to play this game !! the love for chess was his force !! a great lesson ! thank you mikhail, RIP, i'm sure that, in heaven, you have already played good games with God with your magic sacrifices ! ;-))
cyllansse 1 year ago
O cara aí que está comentando no vídeo não é nada mais nada menos que o Deus desse esporte Gary Kasparov 30 epoucas vezes campeão mundial!!!!!!!!Não existe ninguém na história do xadrez que se compare a ele nem antes e nem depois,é o Schumacher desse esporte e de tão inteligente que esse Russo é foram criados dois mega-computadores para desafiá-lo e ele venceu um e perdeu para o outro a história disso é meio complicada.E ainda está muito bem vivo
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Moremover 1 year ago
Tal was amazing
SuperChessnuts 1 year ago
I just want to cry - and I do not cry easily. What a great credit to chess this man was.
JustPassingByToday 1 year ago
Another legend leaving the chess world...
wrestler8469 1 year ago
Heihachi off Tekken
shyyte 1 year ago 3
@shyyte regular man with average iq don't make such a comments, looks like you don't have even a average iq
HerrFickt 1 year ago
Sad to see this. A great chess player Tal was. This game was won by Tal on time against Kasparov. Strange how a frail and physically weak Tal was strong in his mind and fast on his brain to win this on time against a young Kasparov. I heard he came from his hospital bed to play this game, and passed away a couple of days later.
neelaakaasham 1 year ago
Did I see correctly that "Garry Kasparov" is translated as "Tappu Kachapob" in this language? Names too have their translations, dont they??!! ;)
neelaakaasham 1 year ago
@neelaakaasham Its not a translation. Its actually cyrillic characters. Russian language uses this type of characters. Its form is similar tho not quite to that of greek lettering. So Garry Kasparov = Гарри Касларов Г =G, а = a, р= r, и=ee, К=K, с= s, л=p, о= o, в=v
jbdoggy 1 year ago
One of the giants of chess! RIP
CE750 1 year ago 4
A true man, doing what he loved to the last of his days.
Chaxar 1 year ago 3
we all have to get old one day but the great man looks terrible here.
a hair cut would have helped.
R.I.P.
duckgeezer 1 year ago
this is hard to watch.
nebula32 1 year ago 3
alekhine-the best ever russian grandmaster chessplayer
79cristoff 1 year ago
My favorite chess player of all time.
Looking through his games is truly a great pleasure.
RIP Mikhail Tal.
Bulbapuck 1 year ago 3
r i p
michaeljimpogi23 1 year ago 3
I love it when stuff is narrated in a language I don't speak, then over dubbed into yet another language that I don't speak.
TheLMack 1 year ago 27
@TheLMack lol me too
solinero 1 year ago
@TheLMack everything was in russian... kasparov's sound was just not in sync with the video...
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@jingeshan24 انا احب هذه الاغنية! dude.
TheLMack 5 months ago
@TheLMack - me too!
TerrySleeper 1 month ago
He looked terrible but he died doing what he loved right to the very end- who could hope for more?
Nickthetoast 1 year ago 3
@Nickthetoast he died a couple days later after this game I heard he even sneaked out of the hospital to play this game. kind of sad in a way
cuevasdecamuy 1 year ago 2
he looked exactly like my grandpa, who died recently. May both rip :'(
MediumKuriboh 1 year ago
wierd brian
DeafDollar 1 year ago
He smoked and drank way too much.
LimesNorrlandicus 1 year ago 4
at 55 he looked 75
eugdog106 1 year ago 2
jesus he looks horrible
Doug19752533 1 year ago
RIP Mikhail Tal,your achievements and games will be forever remembered in the annals of chess history.Immortal chess!
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TRUEMAN8919 2 years ago
let's have some respect for these great chess players
ItalianWarrior777 2 years ago
Difficult to watch. Wish I hadn't see this.
bashbrannigan 2 years ago 4
Poor Tal....A tragedy that such a brilliant mind was stuck inside of such a fragile body. It is beyond belief that he was only55 when he died....he looks 155. Poor bastard! And we are all the poorer for his poor physical health! Who knows if ANYONE could ever have dethroned him if he was healthy??!
carspiv 2 years ago 5
are you serious? he was only 55 here holy shit. tal looks like hes 70 at least. man, that really is messed up.
novawildcat89 2 years ago
@novawildcat89 lol dude he drink n smoke alot thts y maybe
nottybanks7 2 years ago
obviously and the bad health he was born with. brilliant mind, fragile body.
novawildcat89 2 years ago
@novawildcat89
did you know he had only three fingers on his right hand ?
that's why he always moved with the left hand.
schusterlehrling 2 years ago
Yeah your right but then he was an alcohlic and substance abuser all his life. Plus, he smoked two packs of cigarettes everyday! All his life he was ill with kidney disease and even had a transplant when younger.
Brilliant genius!!
legalrule 2 years ago
IkiriRiri and Brianjonestown - give it a rest.
By trying to sound intelligent all you're doing is making out that you have a social complex; that's the kind of thing teenagers succumb to.
Youtube isn't really the place for this considering most of the people who actually post comments here are illiterate and retarded.
Take it to messaging please, not ironically pointless debate via youtube comments, thank you!
JackWhitehead1 2 years ago
Enough with those insults you two, we're in front of the best chess player of all time, my chess idol and the most modest player i have ever seen in my life, may he R.I.P, anyways, this video is from the Moscow blitz tourney, 1992, he sneaked from hospital just to play this, he beat Kasparov, then returned back to his hospital bed, but never went out of there again .. what a loss...
MrHussainJanahi 2 years ago 7
RIP Mikhail Tal. Great man and one of the best.
ss90ss444 2 years ago 49
Is this guy really Tal? It's like a caricature. It seems that he never worried about his health.
Maybe he was the best of all times. RIP Tal.
What year was this? 1989?
tivrfoa 2 years ago 2
The best chessplayer of all years!!
Orfeus2009 2 years ago
Morphy, Capablanca, Tal, Fischer, Kasparov!
caragheorghe1 2 years ago
Sneaked out of the hospital to enter the Moscow Blitz, beat Kasparov, went back in and died later the same week. That's what they say anyway.
Brianjonestown 2 years ago 3
read his bio, and you'll find that Tal seem to have the habit of sneaking out of confinement in hospital just to participate in a chess tournament
IkiriRiri 2 years ago
You can read his bio too if you like. Nothing is stopping you.
Brianjonestown 2 years ago
how much stupid can you get. my lines are clear - i presume you understood that i know mikhail tal more than he knows himself.
IkiriRiri 2 years ago
Very polite, but you should understand that if you insult someone, there might be a reaction. No one knew Tal better than he knew himself, not even Sosonko and definitely not you.
Brianjonestown 2 years ago
'...but you should understand that if you insult someone, there might be a reaction...' Who's insulting who? I was informing the people on your "that's what they say" about Tal sneaking out. Read the biography of the man, and you'll have better grounds than relying on hearsays. It is you who threw the insult with your "read...if you like...nothing is stopping you..."
IkiriRiri 2 years ago
You have based all your comments on your own presumptions -- I was not "relying on hearsays" but using a figure of speech. I knew the story and I read the biography. Have YOU read it?? So perhaps now you understand that your comment was insulting.
Brianjonestown 2 years ago
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IkiriRiri 2 years ago
ah, figures of speech. Which one? reading a biography and tell the world "that's what they say" ??? without the former, that's hearsay. With the former, now it's concrete. But your "nothing is stopping you" is just plain insulting, and you better look again in a mirror before you jump to another conclusion.
IkiriRiri 2 years ago
That's right, that's exactly what I said, and I meant to say it. But you're not intelligent enough to understand the use of an idiom, so you continue to proceed with presumption and personal attacks. And that's just fine. If you need to air out your frustrations, then feel free. Tal's career is not affected by your ego.
Brianjonestown 2 years ago
me, attacking you? for what? you're an onion when you read my "read his bio...". I tried to support your statements of Tal sneaking out, pointing that Tal did that on several occasions. Hospitals could not limit his passion for chess. But you took that as an insult and were already on the defensive.
IkiriRiri 2 years ago
am i not right when i said "how much more stupid can you get?" You said "Tal's career is not affected by your ego..." So you took me as an anti-Tal all along! I love Tal very much. It is your egoistic remarks that buries you deeper in your stupidity as these arguments progress. "Not intelligent enough"? HaHaHa! Watch your logic, you got lots of fallacies.
IkiriRiri 2 years ago
Uh-oh, I'm busy right now. Could you watch my logic for a little while? I'll let you know when I'm finished.
Brianjonestown 2 years ago
ok :-)
IkiriRiri 2 years ago
Kasparov says that Tals sacrifices worked well untill his last days. This clip is from the movie about Tal
Lehabey 2 years ago
Is there a movie about Tal with more of this? Is it available on DVD? Did it go out on Russian TV?
ChessChat 2 years ago
does anybody understand what kasparov says in russian about tal?
incredible players both
caddata 2 years ago
I wonder what the Tal's IQ had to be
drekecdrekecadrekecu 2 years ago
Don't ask yourself about his iq, ask for his will-strengh... He beat his- according to the doctors unhealable - cancer for a long time ( I think 20 years or something around that) and played high-level chess while being terribly ill. ... Look at him in this condition and feel this strength... It's also mental, but it's so much more than a high IQ! . ...
Gurrjieff 2 years ago 4
i agree
IkiriRiri 2 years ago
180 was his iq i have read,but i believe much more
Orfeus2009 2 years ago
rip Tal;he was one of the gratest.
gavrila87 2 years ago 3
Tal - fantastic chess player. Truly great. Very much missed but NEVER forgotten.
BlindLemonJaffaCake 2 years ago 5
Poor Tal. He was a genius at the end of his life like dying Lion on it's last legs with blunt fangs.
liquidplastic62 2 years ago 3
так рождаются легенды..Для того,чтобы уйти на турнир,я получала разрешение главврача.
marmisha123 2 years ago
...great chess player...
woodpusher62 2 years ago
"mad genius" is a playful, affectionate moniker as often as not- to Americans, anyway: Consider the eminent Dr. Emmet Brown, from "Back to the Future". I agree, Tal looks like he could dive into his coat, pull a lever, and eject from the tournament via rocket-chair. [Awsome]
AWS12345678910 3 years ago
Tal was a great gentleman, and a genius. You bastards, don't joke with his appearance. You are like street dogs, in my eyes! Also, he had health problems all his life.
acveyaralikurt 3 years ago 90
He was a very imaginative chess player.
fatesofgreedom 3 years ago
This vid kinda makes me sad...
myraanon1 3 years ago 3
tal was a chess engine.
nlsnbebang 3 years ago 5
yup men thats the look!! TAL THE MAD SCIENTIST HEHEHEH` he's my idol!!!
vegetta20 3 years ago 3
These names reverberate through my youth... Tal; Petrosian; Alekhine; Botvinnik; but I also remember the words of Vladimir Nabokov in his brilliant novel "The Defence"; "That the greatest minds spend 20, 30, 40 years, in the ludicrous attempt to corner a wooden King on a wooden board". Read it and beware the siren-song of Chess.
deadgirl17 3 years ago 3
deadgirl ... alas, i knew you!
haveyouseenthesun 2 years ago
Whatever gets you (them) through the night...
wfarnaby 2 years ago
Bad health was nothing new to Tal; in 1969 he had a kidney operation after bad results (he similarly suffered from bad health in the 1961 rematch against Botvinnik), and in the 70's he went on a long winning spree.
youvebeenthunderstru 3 years ago 2
Pure chess, great chess, brain-mind only, no computers...
tonicmiro 2 years ago 6
the mad scientist Tal..lol thats how a chess player should look
WERDdaMotha 3 years ago
Mikhail Tal é genial, mas não conseguia controlar o vício do álcool e por isso não manteve o título por muito tempo.
chessofbobfischer 3 years ago
well its a good thing he made a decision to quit smoking and drinking to play chess again.
vkwOnZz 3 years ago
Can any one give a rough translation of this video into englsh please, spasebo bolshoi
ChessChat 3 years ago
he looks like that character from the short pixar animation
erlico82 3 years ago
This is sad.
bashbrannigan 3 years ago
Soy fan de Tal, alguien me traduce por encima el video?
Gracias
josemvila77 3 years ago
it was supposed to be a response to cuban sixteen...
shorbock 3 years ago
also wrong ! It's Ponomariov, world champion in 2002, at the age of 18 (even though this new Fide format is worthless)
shorbock 3 years ago
Why the thumbs down on my comment? Was I lying or something??? lol
DtheProfessor23 4 years ago
u showed no respect to legendary player named Tal
redhatlook 4 years ago
I give Tal all the respect in the world but I'm not gonna lie when he really does look like a dead zombie sittin' there playing chess.
DtheProfessor23 4 years ago 4
Youtube is a great lesson for life: you can speak the truth, but if it is not "nice" then you will usually be punished for it.
unemployedfreak 3 years ago 3
What the hell happened to Tal??!!! Good gracious looks like a dead zombie playing chess
DtheProfessor23 4 years ago
Tal is the gratest chess artist in history, do never say this again.
JYMMIdeJAMAY 4 years ago 4
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And JymmldJamay...You can kiss my mother fuckin ass...CAUSE TAL DOES INDEED FACT LOOK LIKE A DEAD ZOMBIE PLAYING CHESS IN THIS VIDEO.
DtheProfessor23 4 years ago
All right. He was old and sick at the time of this videos, come on! If you were 60 and more something, and had some disfunction in the liver. Come on, guy. He doesn't look as bad as Michael Jackson, and more, he wasn't this ugly when he was younger.
JYMMIdeJAMAY 4 years ago 2
THAT'S EXACTLY MY POINT FROM THE BEGINNING....he looked completely fine when he was younger and after all his health complications his appearance make him look like serious hell. So as I expressed earlier, "What the hell happened to him?!" but after my research I found out.
DtheProfessor23 4 years ago
Tal continued to play chess for 8 months after his death.
seka1986 3 years ago 13
after his death??? How do you figure? lol
DtheProfessor23 3 years ago 4
Just look at the video, do you think he is really alive?
seka1986 3 years ago 4
Obviously he's alive. I don't think Kasparov plays ghosts. lol
DtheProfessor23 3 years ago
Garry played a zombie.
seka1986 3 years ago
You should shut up and show more respect. Tal was a great player and a world champion.
Benningsen07 3 years ago 7
Almost...
Gurrjieff 2 years ago
All his organs had already stopped working, so technically he could be considered "dead."
DontNeedToKnow84 3 years ago
tal is my favourite chess player
GoldeWC 4 years ago 2
Its wird how they say kasprorov is the bes t yet all his matches on youtube i saw he lost
NYCHARLEM212 4 years ago
youngest world champion ever.
end of story..........
answerplz3000 4 years ago
that ain't everything...sure as hell ain't the end of no story...more like the beginning.
DtheProfessor23 3 years ago
Maybe because Kasparov loses were big news? Kasparov was #1 on FIDE list for 20 years. That's amazing how anyone can stay #1 on the list for that long, given he played a lot and new generation and new kids made it to top in those 20 years. He was still #1 on the list when he retired.
evilthought 3 years ago
Tal is the man!
PrinceTian 4 years ago
so who won tal or kasporov?
NYCHARLEM212 4 years ago
Kasparov: "I won the tournament [blitz tournament in 1992] but lost one match to Tal. I fought off an attack with a wrong piece and eventually ran out of time because, in 5 minutes, I wasn't able to deal with the problems posed by Tal."
TheSSBMDude 4 years ago 4
Kasparov: "That's presumably some kind of higher power that despite Tal literally being on his last legs (hope that's the right idiom ^^) he was STILL in condition to be able to play that chess that made him immortal."
hope that's understandable. :)
TheSSBMDude 4 years ago 4
Thanks.
trembleagain 4 years ago
spaciba! It means gratitude? I knew a russian word. I'm so proud.
junkyjuice21 4 years ago
that really doesn;t look like Tal
MurnoGladst 4 years ago
It looks like he had Cancer , propably lung cancer from excessive smoking . They generally look very emaciated like he did . A great loss
maroczy100 4 years ago
I got remember Bobby Fischer beat Tal 6-0! last early 1970's Right?
OrmondRender 4 years ago
No, Fischer beat both Taimanov and Larsen 6-0 in matches. Tal had 4 wins against Fischer in serious tournament play (Fischer beat Tal twice).
alkanliszt 4 years ago 4
Yeah tal beat fisher 4 and lost 2 kasprov is way better than fisher
NYCHARLEM212 4 years ago
Different times due to health. One was going in the other coming out. Prime on prime...., Tal, I don't believe, would win the majority, just like Spassky didn't. However, it would have been nice to have seen them play a set of tournament games in the late sixties/early seventies. The late fifties and early sixties, even though Bobby was great, he wasn't that great yet (as Tal displayed).
herbs4mike 4 years ago
wrong
GoldeWC 4 years ago
No. Fischer beat Taimanov and Larsen 6-0 each, before playing Petrosian and Spassky.
zluvu4ever 3 years ago
plz post more plz
GoldeWC 4 years ago
Narrator: ...sick, he left the hospital. Tal rushed over to the tournament.
Ablom24 4 years ago
Kasparov: Tal played last in Moscow. There were 8 people. we played 2 rounds, and i won the tournament, but i lost one of its matches to Tal. Tal lost a [unclear], I fought off the attack, and ran out of time. It took me 5mins to respond to the attack posed by Tal...Even at the end he was able to play the same quality chess that brought him immortality
Ablom24 4 years ago 4
Narrator: An acquaintance once greeted Tal. Tal said "Thank you." "Thank you for what?" wondered the acquaintance. " "For recognizing." At the time, he was only 55 years old.
Ablom24 4 years ago 2
Ya wanna real freak out, google "Tal's right hand"...it's reported he had 3 fingers from a birth defect, what he had was a montrous looking lobster claw thing, that's why he's always shown using his left hand.
CrowTRobot5 4 years ago
Please, puto a english translation. Thx !
viriatovitch 4 years ago
If he should have been healthy, he should have contributed that much to chess.
regoralo 4 years ago
He suffered with a kidney complaint for most of his adult life, which is why he under acheived for had he been healthy who knows how much more the Prince of chess might have accomplished.
ucanplay2 4 years ago
Oh jesus look what chess has done to him...he has become very old looking in young age. in this vid i think he is 49
L4NSKY 4 years ago
just today i read a story of Jan Timman about Tal in a new dutch chess fanzine...
mattenschaakverhalen dot nl
it appeared that Tal was in very bad physical condition (hospital visits etc) for many years...also he was addicted to smoking, drinkeing and woman....
marsiozo 4 years ago
Since when is it a bad thing to be addicted to women?
:)
AnEnlightened1 4 years ago 3
Actually he was 55 but looked 75. Stay away from the smokes and to much drinking.
Rogli 4 years ago
And above all he always was ill, since he was a young boy (so without drinking or smoking).
CornPopMagic 4 years ago
Could someone who speaks Russian please translate this? It looks fascinating
Tiwaking 4 years ago