Michail Tal

Michail Tal 33 years old (after surgeon operaton)

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• chess
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• szachy

[TheSSBMDude]

Narrator: "...of the chess federation replied: "We don't do such things but you can try asking Tal..."

Tal easily agreed. He played blind chess on 10 boards sitting in an isolated room, without writing anything down and only being connected to the playing room via a microphone. Only a chess-genius is able to do something like that ...one out of a million."

[TheSSBMDude]

Mikhail Tal: "On board 9 it was as follows: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O b5 6. Bb3 Be7 playing calmly and holding back for a while."

Narrator: "At this point he was already 33 years old, having recently overcome a terrible surgery while barely surviving and now still shaky on his legs. This makes the result of this event with 7 wins and 3 draws even more impressive, but...[video cuts off]"

[TEDOVSKY]

Sadly, apart from smoking 60 cigarettes a day tal also drank huge amounts of vodka. Still, the last game he ever played was when he was ill in hospital (he had to creep past the nurses to leave) He played kasparov in a sicilian and WON in a position where gary lost on time and was completely thrown by a novelty in an opening!! In fact, you can see him playing the moves here on " LAST DAYS OF TAL"

[TEDOVSKY]

I once read a chess book on combinations. "White to move and win" came up in an attacking position. I sweated for an hour but couldnt solve it. Turned the page and the solution was incredible with sacrifices abound, with a freak queen sacrifice towards the end and finally a last gasp rook move on the back rank for mate. And then, at the end of the solution were the words " And this combination occurred spontaneously on one of 27 boards the world champion was playing, blind folded!"(Alekhine!!)

[ottogunsche]

Tal was a freak. And I say this as a compliment. The mans ability was unique and being able to play the way he played has rarely been achieved. RIP Mikhail Tal.

[esraretin]

hes cute like most genius like perelman :)

[ArrogantJew]

@eZoren11 Carlsen is shit as person

[ArrogantJew]

@Faramarzrastin He felt superhuman.

[Faramarzrastin]

Why do people smoke? It makes me sick. He could have been the world champion in 20 years or more If he had been healthy.

[mikko522]

I think of all the great games I have seen played none have I found as mystifying and exciting as Tals.

[eZoren11]

@TheSSBMDude one out of a million? Kasparov reckons someone like Carlsen is once every 100 years... pretty sure its more than a million!

[geonerd]

10 people is nothing! Tal could play the whole world simultaneously if provided with enough cigarettes! :)