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Hypnotic Tal and Benko`s defence - sunglasses (Last rund in Beograd 1959

Michail Tal - CHAMPION !!!

(by Szachowy Zapiecek)

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  • Narrator: "At some point in Belgrade a rumour has spread...Tal the hypnotist, he disturbs your thoughts. You calculate an attack and suddenly naked women are flashing across your mind. How can you play when the only thing you can think of...are women?!

    So in the match against Tal, Benko put on a pair of black sunglasses and played in the dark. Well, it didn't really help him much, Tal finished the match with perpetual check and became the winner of the candidates tournament at the age of 23."

  • Mikhail Tal: "I'm very happy that GMs Paul Keres, Tigran Petrosian, Vasily Smyslov and myself took the first 4 places and...[video cuts off]"

    Narrator: "He scored the first victory and prepared for the next one, but the first move in this match...[video cuts off]"

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  • This is too funny, Benko tried to protect himself with sunglasses. lol

  • @TRUEMAN8919 sure

  • @Simangel1307 I think your list is good fischer must always be at the top

  • @TRUEMAN8919 1 fischer 2 tal 3 garry kasparov 4 morphy 5 alekhine 6 capablanca 7 karpov 8 lasker 9 anderssen 10 petrossian

  • whatever that ranking system is maybe favorites great but cmon gary would shred anyone in that list

  • Yeah, he had ectrodactyly--his hand looked like a wicked claw.

  • He had only three fingers on his right hand.

  • @TRUEMAN8919

    Lasker was named the best ever by capablanca and alekine.

    Also his precentage and successes were beter hen most of the above, if not all.

  • 1 fischer 2 alekhine 3 capablanca 4 spasski  5 petrossian 6 morphy 7 anatoly karpov 8 gary kasparov 9 tal 10 botvinnik

  • somebody in 0:32 french kissed tal:).. kind of french defense hehe.. rip great master

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