Tal:

Move by Move

Cyrus Lakdawala

• Publisher: Popular Chess
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9781781943243

Mikhail Tal is a true legend of chess. He was the World Champion and also holds the world record for the longest unbeaten run in competitive chess. Tal is widely regarded to be the greatest attacking player of all time. Nicknamed 'the magician from Riga', Tal was a creative genius who made it look as though absolutely anything was possible over the chessboard. He excelled in confusing his opponents in chaotic positions, and even the best defenders of his time were unable to withstand his blistering attacks. Tal's many brilliant games have inspired generations of chess players who admire his play without ever being able to convincingly reproduce it. In this book, former American Open Champion Cyrus Lakdawala selects and examines his favourite Tal games, from the beginning to the end of his exceptional career. Lakdawala shows how we can all improve our chess by learning from Tal's masterpieces. Cyrus Lakdawala examines his favourite games of the chess legend Mikhail Tal, a World Champion who is widely regarded to be the greatest attacking player of all time. Move by Move provides an ideal platform to study chess. By continually challenging the reader to answer probing questions throughout the book, the Move by Move format greatly encourages the learning and practising of vital skills just as much as the traditional assimilation of knowledge. Carefully selected questions and answers are designed to keep you actively involved and allow you to monitor your progress as you learn. This is an excellent way to improve your chess skills and knowledge. * Learn from the games of a World Champion * Important ideas absorbed by continued practice * Utilizes an ideal approach to chess study

Table of contents

• About the Author
• Bibliography
• Introduction
• 1 The Early Years
• 2 World Champion and 1960-1970
• 3 The Later Years
• Index of Complete Games
• Aronson.L-Tal.M, USSR Championship, Moscow 1957
• Averbakh.Y-Tal.M, USSR Championship, Riga 1958
• Bleks.I-Tal.M, Latvian Championship, Riga 1952
• Bobotsov.M-Tal.M, Varna 1958
• Botvinnik.M-Tal.M, World Championship (Game 17), Moscow 1961
• Donner.J-Tal.M, Zurich 1959
• Gurgenidze.B-Tal.M, USSR Championship, Moscow 1957
• Kapengut.A-Tal.M, Latvian Championship, Riga 1965
• Polugaevsky.L-Tal.M, Riga Interzonal 1979
• Ragozin.V-Tal.M, Riga (simul) 1948
• Smyslov.V-Tal.M, USSR Team Championship, Moscow 1964
• Spassky.B-Tal.M, Montreal 1979
• Spassky.B-Tal.M, Tallinn 1973
• Spassky.B-Tal.M, USSR Championship, Riga 1958
• Tal.M-Abramovic.B, Moscow 1982
• Tal.M-Averbakh.Y, USSR Team Championship, Riga 1961
• Tal.M-Dvoretsky.M, USSR Championship, Leningrad 1974
• Tal.M-Fischer.R, Bled/Zagreb/Belgrade Candidates 1959
• Tal.M-Hecht.H, Varna Olympiad 1962
• Tal.M-Keres.P, Tallinn 1973
• Tal.M-Koblencs.A, Riga 1957
• Tal.M-Korchnoi.V, Montpellier Candidates 1985
• Tal.M-Larsen.B, 10th matchgame, Bled 1965
• Tal.M-Lisitsin.G, USSR Championship, Leningrad 1956
• Tal.M-NN, Riga (simul) 1958
• Tal.M-Panno.O, Portoroz Interzonal 1958
• Tal.M-Petrosian.T, USSR 1974
• Tal.M-Portisch.L, 4th matchgame, Bled 1965
• Tal.M-Portisch.L, Biel Interzonal 1976
• Tal.M-Portisch.L, Montreal 1979
• Tal.M-Rantanen.Y, Tallinn 1979
• Tal.M-Rogers.I, San Francisco 1991