Chess - 29/11/09
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
The Tal Memorial in Moscow was won by Vladimir Kramnik earlier this month, and was followed (rather fittingly, for the great Mikhail Tal) by the World Blitz Championship.
Mikhail Tal's Best Games of Chess: The Rise of Mikhail Tal 1951-1960 (Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics)
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
The Tal Memorial in Moscow was won by Vladimir Kramnik earlier this month, and was followed (rather fittingly, for the great Mikhail Tal) by the World Blitz Championship.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
... contest at Herceg Novi, Yugoslavia, in 1970. Bobby there scored 19/22, won by 4.5 points ahead of Mikhail Tal, and reportedly never took more than two and a half minutes of his allotted five for any game. He wiped out the Soviet contingent of three world champions and two challengers 8.5-1.5. So Fischer rates best, but Carlsen has yet to peak. You can watch him in action against England's...
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
... friend commented, this is a historic day for Philippine chess. It recalls to mind Torre's win over Mikhail Tal in Leningrad.” International arbiter and national master Erwin Carag also praised So. “Wesley So beating Vassily Ivanchuk is just like Manny Pacquiao beating Oscar de la Hoya, a legend.” “Now, Wesley against Gata, will be like Pacquiao vs Hatton or Pacquiao...
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
... friend commented, this is a historic day for Philippine chess. It recalls to mind Torre's win over Mikhail Tal in Leningrad.” International arbiter and national master Erwin Carag also praised So: “Wesley So beating Vassily Ivanchuk is just like Manny Pacquiao beating Oscar de la Hoya, a legend.” “Now, Wesley against Gata, will be like Pacquiao vs Hatton or Pacquiao...
Chess news by ChessVibes (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
... up with this crap. And this is when I suddenly started to play, almost by instinct, 1…a5 and 1…h5. Mikhail Tal I think it was an extreme form of a very familiar, in fact totally trivial, aspect of chess: forcing your will upon your opponent. Everyone does it to some extend, but some players seem better at it than others. Was it really a concidence that Tal’s games were so full of crazy sacrifices?...