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Saturday, April 23, 2016

Video of Tal Playing Kasparov Shortly Before Tal's Death

I've been going through Tal's book of his match with Botvinnik in which he won the World Championship. That was 1960. Here is a photo of him in 1962. The video shows him playing chess with Gary Kasparov shortly before Tal's death at age 55. Very sad...........
https://youtu.be/Q6nUvp5WRl4

And here is that blitz game taken form Volume II of Kasparov's Great Predecessors series. Kasparov says that he survived the attack, but lost to Tal on time. A respectful tribute by Kasparov to Tal, IMO.
[Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "1992.05.28"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Tal Mikhail N (LAT)"]
[Black "Kasparov Garry (RUS)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Annotator "?"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[ECO "B51"]
[Remark "?"]
[Source "?"]
[WhiteElo "0"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bb5+ Nd7 4. d4 Ngf6 5. O-O a6 6. Bxd7+ Nxd7 7. Nc3 e6 8.
Bg5 Qc7 9. Re1 cxd4 10. Nxd4 Ne5 11. f4 h6 12. Bh4 g5 13. fxe5 gxh4 14. exd6
Bxd6 15. Nd5 exd5 16. exd5+ Kf8 17. Qf3 1-0

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