Bent Larsen vs Mikhail Tal - 1969

Bent Larsen vs Mikhail Tal
Eersel cm-3pl 1969
King's Indian Defense: Orthodox Variation. Classical System Misc. E98
1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. d4 O-O 6. Be2 e5 7. O-O Nc6 8. d5 Ne7 9. Ne1 Nd7 10. Nd3 f5 11. Bd2 Nf6 12. f3 f4 13. c5 g5 14. Rc1 Ng6 15. Nb5 Rf7 16. cd6 cd6 17. Qc2 g4 18. Nc7 gf3 19. gf3 Bh3 20. Na8 Ne4 21. fe4 Qg5 22. Kf2 Qg2 23. Ke1 Nh4 24. Be3 Qe4 25. Bf2 f3 26. Bh4 Qh4 27. Nf2 fe2 28. Qe2 e4 29. Rg1 e3 30. Qe3 Re7 31. Rg7 Kg7 32. Rc7 Bd7 33. Rd7 Rd7 34. Qa7 Re7 35. Kd1 Qc4 36. Qb6 Qf1 37. Kd2 Re2 38. Kc3 Qc1 39. Kd4 Qe3 40. Kc4 Rc2
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[@lowlypeasant]

Sunny morning, a cup of coffee and a new Mato video. Life is good.

[@NikeEliteSeller]

That's the life ☺

[@elangoraja3733]

Brilliant game of Tal. Brilliant teaching by Mato

[@WAPBodie]

In 1969 Larsen won Chess Oscar. He was on of the very best players at the time.

[@elcastorgrande]

Welcome back, Mato! I was going through Mato withdrawal. Great explication, as always. You talk less and say more than anyone on KZbin chess.

[@shnoogums1]

Quite strange Larsen would play such a strong game and then abandon his king when he had an obvious equalizing queen trade

[@TawhidAnam]

so tal is magician ,illiusianist hypnotist ...lol

[@citrus7487]

I love every match Tal plays. He's a joy to watch and a jaw-dropping attacker.

[@testplatform582]

Larsen blundering with Qxa7 is hard to believe. Maybe time pressure was involved. Nonetheless another gem from my favorite chess magician Tal and my favorite YT chess commentator Mato

[@PatrickKirkOKC]

Tal with black pieces are my favorite games to watch.

[@sanjursan]

Wonderful game with super commentary. And if you would like a little amusement, try the closed captions of Mato translated into English!

[@pablovega6163]

Mijail Tal, el mago de Riga. Un genio. Mi más respeto a su historia y su legado

[@fadyelkady1.245]

looks like one of my games only without the wining part

[@heywardhollis1160]

I can always find Tal's killer move. I just wish I knew what to do after that...

[@niketbhagwath6875]

Absolute masterpiece by Tal

[@agus.90]

It's always great to watch Tal's games!!!thanks Mato!

[@briankarcher8338]

Everybody: Why did you sacrifice the knight? Tal: He was in the way.

[@Nyctasia]

Very good game Mato, thank you for posting.

[@alexanderroc3359]

Wow Talk played brilliantly !

[@dehansfromoz4979]

This should be a very interesting game and many more to watch, thanks to you with sharing.

[@manojbala6870]

Thank you. Beautiful game

[@yellowdart6666]

this is exceptional. even when TAL doesn't completely obliterate someone, he completely obliterates them.

[@MouriWouri]

Really subtle stuff by Tal, I love his games. But also nice defensive moves by Larsen (i.e. to put the Bishop on e3 which would have forced a Queen trade if it had been taken or how he tried to avoid the Queen loss with Rxg7 and Rc7).

[@Esloquees]

Complication after complication, that game is madness, Tal make Larsen go crazy.

[@jacobdrollinger4802]

Online chess lecture for free. Amazing stuff, Mato!

[@bwww007]

thanks Mato. really enjoy your videos

[@Herman47]

Mato, at 3:43: "Why did Tal sacrifice the knight?" Answer: *Because he is Tal*

[@thenewandrei4o94]

what an odd blunder. that's a move even I knew was bad!

[@tombx7872]

Sweet as video Mato, thank you for the upload. Keep it up man. Greetings from you're neighbouring city Melbourne :) That's right Go Australia.

[@spanmarx]

Great illustrations Mr Jelic

[@kobathedread]

What a game!! Tal is the man.

[@aredhi]

I like this video before i watch it. :))

[@TheKakashims]

Mind blowing Mato!

[@StoshGalumpke]

I did enjoy watching this video !

[@Narrowcros]

Shame bent went with for the pawn with this queen, things could have been quite diffrent if he didnt do that

[@betulaobscura]

Great game!

[@annamaycuenca7190]

Very interesting game

[@luca-nn2hp]

What a fight!!

[@christak5251]

Amazing game amazing batlle

[@narayandejesus218]

Wow, what a game Mato!

[@SilentForceX]

A Tal game? Just now starting the video but I'm expecting great things...

[@powerguido1299]

Tnks!!!!

[@user-mc3hl5pf9t]

Its looking like a Steinitz - Zukertort game where Steinitz was having same position with black

[@kowalityjesus]

amazing game.

[@altimate1]

Insane moves 🤫

[@Salamander6969]

“Did you find… knight takes on e4?” … “No, Mato…. Nobody did!” 😌

[@yellowdart6666]

and I know his eyes got wide on that endgame blunder.

[@georgebush7223]

Great fight between an attacker and an unorthodox !

[@FreakMan2k]

My thought is at 3:40 f6bK could move to d7 to avoid sacrifice and intending on b6.

[@valeriolucentini5436]

More Tal videos!

[@briddhiman1729]

Looks like Larsen Bent the knee.

[@DarkwingDuc]

crazy game

[@geovannysanchez9995]

Tal was a beast!!!

[@gloriouslyrics6777]

Larsen should have won the game. But that wrong move 'killed' him.

[@peppermints666]

if queen takes night and bishop takes rook is not he move, then night takes pawn is the only aggresive option left, that was easy

[@ganizari8204]

Nice game tal

[@303assassin]

Tal can also sacrifice his dinner just to checkmate his opponent.

[@GoUtes92]

8:00. "Beware of the hanging pawn."

[@ravishankarpatel9478]

At 4:23 pawn to f6 was better than knight to h4....I think so

[@chess_is_a_vibe]

The return of TAL!

[@patrickluszcz7801]

theschultemeister TALI

[@xavierfrazao1469]

Tal is the most amazing player of all time. RIP

[@user-ts2co4ov5h]

It depends exactly how you define Amazing.... If by amazing you mean great combination of vision then you might be right.... Is by amazing you mean great end game skilled and that is Capablanca or Fischer or Morphy... This by amazing you mean the least percentage of losses then we are talking Capablanca again... This by amazing you mean defeating 20 grand masters in a row at the top level now we're talking about Bobby Fischer....

[@Somnio77]

Attack! yeah!

[@nareshkashyap9537]

Please sir make some videos of bent Larsen please sir

[@sammakesmusic]

At 2:15 Why not Qb6+ Qxb5 instead of g4? There's nothing in the dark diagonal to protect against black queen's check...Am i missing something basic here?

[@samuelbruyneel]

How many moves have been played, before the first piece was captured? :-O

[@nichgnoynat]

how many moves did Tal thought ahead!!@.@

[@argentina100ful]

I miss Mariya :)

[@AlonsoRules]

Interesting to not bother with pieces that aren't already developed and attack with those that are

[@BryTheNiceGuy]

At 7:35, why doesn't queen to b4 check, work? Since white queen is pinned by rook, he would be forced to move king, hence losing white queen to black rook. Does this work? Anyone?

[@rocket_gamer3844]

Rook at e7 is pinned

[@ahmedmohamed-jg5th]

in 3.37 larsen have a winning end game after queen c8 exchange queen

[@d4slaimless]

Larsen, indeed, was bent... by Tal!

[@mislavbeg2226]

at 2:05, why not queen b6?

[@rashedpolychem6321]

Mato is the best 👍

[@chaitanyanile1185]

I like tal the most 😚

[@ferdinandbuenavides1256]

Why queen ran away

[@adolfvader8015]

When f3 was able to be played before knight to h4 what is wrong with it? Only bishop is defending f3 and bishop is pinned right?

[@adolfvader8015]

oh I see now because of the rook on f1

[@daveyplinth]

What is wrong with Larsen Qe3xe7...?

[@MrGyges]

A punch up

[@xsassan]

any one can help >> 2:11 why not B.Queen gives check on B6 and then take the black knight on B5

[@rkaytkt]

because after check, Nf2 defending the king and clearing the path for white bishop to defend the knight on b5

[@MrKentandersson]

queen takes knight and wished good night!

[@harishmohan1364]

He is talking through his hat. The curative petition has been filed and rejected by Supreme Court. The time limit of three years does not hold any water because there is no restriction on filing it earlier. Hence his new appeal will meet it's waterloo

[@bhawanarathor2174]

vaise larsen ne tal ko kafi fer tak jhel liya

[@ahmadrahimkhan]

why did Larsen make this blunder 😕

[@antithesa9476]

Tal is genius

[@skakdosmer]

I don't like the inverted board.

[@user-km6po1ox3i]

And I made the move and the world resigned

[@mohamedmaqsudmohammed6445]

My teacher mato Why black didn't play qb6+ on 2:10 time winning the white knighte

[@bolzanoitaly8360]

He did blunder

[@7117hpr7117]

at 3:58 after white king moves to e1 why not black pawn to f3. Game over. if white rook takes pawn, black queen to h1 preventing white king to d1...and black is winning..k

[@ShashwatKumar]

f3 would be followed by Rf2 and if Q goes to 1st rank, then Bf1 lessening the attack and also opening space for whites black bishop

[@altimate1]

Lot of politics. Iam going to Disneyland.

[@justinbro6173]

Larsen was winning until ... Qxa7 Greedy.

[@user-ts2co4ov5h]

Why would Larsen take the useless pawn on A7??? Type of move a C player at club level might make...you are just asking for trouble...I never liked Larsen for that exact reason... He could play a bunch of good moves then make some ridiculous retarded move....Something Fischer, Capablanca or Karpov would NEVER DO

[@alexobed3184]

Insanity.