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Fischer vs Tal 1959

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[kingscrusher]

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[rob2011r]

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fischer DOB- march 1943

[geonerd]

It's a real shame that Tal's health prevented a proper showdown between he two sometime in the mid to late 60's. Heck, a healty Tal might very well have been waiting for Fischer in Iceland. Spassky was a VERY solid player, but I think Tal or even Korch would have offered a more energetic fight in 72.

[hthought]

@hthought and if you make a deeper calculation and go down some moves, you will see that the queen will have to move to d2 after f4, which is the only square to keep it in game really, allowing also tactics to the black queen on the white knight on c5, which is not protected now. White will either lose the queen after Rf2+ forking the king and queen or get mated if queen goes to c1, where it' totally passive. The loss would be some moves away.

[hthought]

@johnmilo117 that move would be an instant loss. What follows is Nh3+, KF1 only move, and f4! ripping the g3 pawn and preparing rook and queen to come to the almost open g file. It would be a totally losing move.

[johnmilo117]

@mdnoorfairouz True, but all he had to do to protect the pawn at G2 was to move forward one, save him trading a rook for a knight. Unless his move was better.

[mdnoorfairouz]

@johnmilo117 its like a decoy,to release pressure from the king side coz knight and bishop were aiming for the g2 square

[johnmilo117]

7:20 - why trade a rook for a knight?

[janweltevreden]

Amazing that just before his death and looking very ill he sneaked out of hospital and gate-crashed a blitz gathering with kasparov crushing everybody as usual. Security at the door entrance stepped aside.(They tend to do that for ex-world champions!) Tal then asked gary for a game. Gary obliged and then tal produced an amazing sequence of moves in a mega sharp sicilian and beat him!! See this amazing short game AND the video of this incredible game here on youtube.

[RedneckkRudy]

I've lost several games like Fischer did here, only at several levels of skiller lower. Tal brilliantly wears his opponent down and goes for the kill when he smells blood. Thanks for the commentary, great stuff.

[Gleefan39]

I like how Tal wasted no time!