One of Mikhail Tal's most emphatic and crushing Modern Benoni games: Black vs Gurgenidze : USSR 1957

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[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1957.02.16"]
[EventDate "1957.??.??"]
[Round "18"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Bukhuti Gurgenidze"]
[Black "Mikhail Tal"]
[ECO "A78"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "54"]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3 exd5 5.cxd5 d6 6.Nf3 g6 7.e4
Bg7 8.Be2 O-O 9.O-O Re8 10.Nd2 Na6 11.Re1 Nc7 12.a4 b6 13.Qc2
Ng4 14.h3 Nxf2 15.Kxf2 Qh4+ 16.Kf1 Bd4 17.Nd1 Qxh3 18.Bf3 Qh2
19.Ne3 f5 20.Ndc4 fxe4 21.Bxe4 Ba6 22.Bf3 Re5 23.Ra3 Rae8
24.Bd2 Nxd5 25.Bxd5+ Rxd5 26.Ke2 Bxe3 27.Rxe3 Bxc4+ 0-1
Who is Tal?
Mikhail Nekhemyevich Tal (Latvian: Mihails Tāls; Russian: Михаил Нехемьевич Таль, Mikhail Nekhem'evich Tal, pronounced [mʲɪxɐˈiɫ nʲɪˈxʲemʲɪvʲɪtɕ ˈtalʲ]; sometimes transliterated Mihails Tals or Mihail Tal; 9 November 1936 - 28 June 1992)[1] was a Soviet chess Grandmaster and the eighth World Chess Champion (from 1960 to 1961).
In 1959 he married 19-year-old Salli Landau, an actress with the Riga Youth Theatre; they divorced in 1970. In 2003, Landau published a biography in Russia of her late ex-husband.
Personality
His first wife, Salli Landau, described Mikhail's personality:
Misha was so ill-equipped for living... When he travelled to a tournament, he couldn't even pack his own suitcase... He didn't even know how to turn on the gas for cooking. If I had a headache, and there happened to be no one home but him, he would fall into a panic: "How do I make a hot-water bottle?" And when I got behind the wheel of a car, he would look at me as though I were a visitor from another planet. Of course, if he had made some effort, he could have learned all of this. But it was all boring to him. He just didn't need to. A lot of people have said that if Tal had looked after his health, if he hadn't led such a dissolute life... and so forth. But with people like Tal, the idea of "if only" is just absurd. He wouldn't have been Tal then.[11]
Soviet champion
Tal lived in this house in Riga
Tal first qualified for the USSR Chess Championship final in 1956, finishing joint fifth, and became the youngest player to win it the following year, at the age of 20. He had not played in enough international tournaments to qualify for the title of Grandmaster, but FIDE decided at its 1957 Congress to waive the normal restrictions and award him the title because of his achievement in winning the Soviet Championship. At that time, the Soviet Union was dominant in world chess, and Tal had beaten several of the world's top players to win the tournament.[12]
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[@nikunjakishoresundaray7984]

Tal comes at you in all directions: all combinations superbly annotated. What a time, what a player! Thank you

[@hankjones7054]

Everytime I watch a Tal game I'm just thinking how many moves till the knight sacrifice.

[@wildmansamurai3663]

or The Rook sacrifice

[@selfoe]

I'm loving these videos. Thanks so much!

[@iamLI3]

dude your analysis here was astounding CX ....

[@naimulhaq9626]

Beautiful and memorable.

[@cwgriffin1]

"What do you think Tal did?" means "what does Tal sacrifice this time?". Loved the comment, ". . .and it isn't even a sacrifice this time." Thanks. I love your analysis of Tal games.

[@joeyhathaway8447]

Nice work.

[@simpleliving662]

WOW!!!! Thank you for sharing!

[@QDem19]

Just brilliant!

[@wildmansamurai3663]

Tal was a mind-blowing player

[@yacinechina4770]

lovely thanks

[@kaptensnall]

I havn''t analysed the game myself but I have a quick question: was the sacrifice on f2 sound? or was the damage already done from white when he didnt snap if off? Amazing game nevertheless!

[@asd36f]

5:17 - Boden's mate.

[@Narrowcros]

Master of sacrifices is Tal, I wonder if the engine thought the night sacrifice was sound

[@eulefranz944]

when my friend picked up the benoni for srs tournament play I said to him: are you crazy, are you trying to lose? nice d6 you have there! I guess after this video there is no stopping hahaha he will never return to qgd :D

[@whocares4275]

I used to believe in God. Now I believe in Tal!