Mikhail Tal's Averbakh Gambit blasts Spassky

Featured is the chess game between Boris Spassky and Mikhail Tal from Tallinn 1973. In reply to Tal's Nimzo-Indian Defense, Spassky chooses the Leningrad variation. Tal's response with the Averbakh Gambit strips Spassky of central control. The Averbakh Gambit is a close relative of the Blumenfeld Gambit, with the main difference being the location of black's dark-squared bishop. On display is Tal's excellent depth of calculation. Before Tal executes his 15th move, he had to at least crunch the numbers up to his 22nd move. This is a model game for the Averbakh Gambit, and it highlights Tal's skill as both attacker and defender.
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PGN
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Bg5 h6 5. Bh4 c5 6. d5 b5
7. dxe6 fxe6 8. cxb5 d5 9. e3 O-O 10. Nf3 Qa5 11. Bxf6 Rxf6
12. Qd2 a6 13. bxa6 Nc6 14. Be2 d4 15. exd4 Rxf3 16. Bxf3 cxd4
17. O-O dxc3 18. bxc3 Bxc3 19. Qd6 Rxa6 20. Bxc6 Bb4 21. Qb8
Rxc6 22. Rac1 Bc5 23. Rc2 Qa4 24. Qb3 Qf4 25. Qg3 Qf5 26. Rfc1
Bb7 27. Qf3 Qg5 28. Qb3 Rc7 29. g3 Bxf2+ 30. Kxf2 Qf6+ 31. Ke1
Qe5+ 32. Kf1 Ba6+ 33. Kg1 Qd4+ 34. Kg2 Qe4+ 35. Kg1 Bb7 36. h4
Qh1+ 37. Kf2 Rf7+ 38. Ke2 Qe4+

[@ChessNetwork]

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[@h0wnr681]

What a great game, the way Tal saw these tactical defenses in advance is really amazing.

[@Ebobster]

Great game! Interesting discussion of different evaluation depending on whether white’s pawn is on b3 vs a2. Thank you Jerry!

[@ChessNetwork]

👍

[@Javidfarali1980]

Hey Jerry, it's me, the guy that always nags you about making rapid/blitz videos. I didn't leave a comment but be assured that I watched it at least five times. I was asleep for four of them. As my therapist I want to thank you for helping me do that. Also keep up the great work. Talk to you soon buddy

[@abebuckingham8198]

Pure wizardry out of the Magician from Riga

[@ChessNetwork]

🧙‍♂️

[@leefields3658]

Beautiful game. Brilliant play by both Tal and Spassky. Very nice analysis by you!

[@matt6539]

Early tactics and so many forced moves. Great break down Jerry thank you. Shining the light on Tals genius.

[@brixward2629]

Long time fan thanks Jerry! Always love your recaps especially Tal recaps, that one was nasty.

[@ChessNetwork]

Thank you 👍

[@Kuribohdudalala]

I’ve been really interested in the blumenfeld gambit recently so it was cool seeing this on your channel!

[@amyalindaily3781]

Tks for the game ❤

[@ChessNetwork]

And thank you for watching. 👍

[@amyalindaily3781]

@@ChessNetwork Always 🙏

[@dougcarey2233]

Those were some Bobby Fischer bishops. It always blows my mind how utterly savage the bishop pair becomes in an open endgame.

[@Winkkin]

Tal was a master of coordinating the actions of his pieces.

[@matiasg1234]

"Queen has dark, Bishop has light"

[@Ghilji-w5f]

In Endgame, it's like walking on eggshells. This game looks scary like simple missteps leading into checkmate.

[@bimmerdanny659]

Tal really had a different mindset towards the game of chess just when you think you escaped he finally gets you. Great understanding of the game. The whole time I was stressing this is not enough i don't see a move for black but he proved me and spassky wrong. Rip

[@איציקפיש]

Beautiful game!!

[@RoyGazoff]

M.Tal provided marvelous games in his times. He had the vision and was showing the slightest positional details as something to consider more important than plain material.

[@MonMohonSinha]

I like the way you explained each and every move Thanks

[@jozefserf2024]

Even in the 1970s Tal had the old magic.

[@FahimHoq]

Only Tal can make player of Spassky's calibre look ordinary

[@irfanyamashita7184]

And fischer

[@BK-nd7iz]

Wonderful game from Riga's magician thank you Jerry

[@ardentthinker5430]

The accuracy is uncanny!

[@jonathangarellek3982]

the most amazing thing about Tal is that despite his combinatorial style he had in the 60s the longest unbeaten streak, which is to say that no one could truly out-calculate him over the board.

[@irfanyamashita7184]

I think its in 70s?

[@irfanyamashita7184]

I think it's in 70s?

[@andyslater5041]

Thank you Jerry!

[@connorregan9128]

Tal made the doubled rooks look like nothing... even a weakness. Truly a wanderer of the deep, dark forest of chess.

[@chesspunk489]

I think I am going to start playing this gambit.

[@Muy_Lyndo_mindframe]

Simply wow, theres really nothing else to say. Greatest game ever invented in my opinion.

[@aleksandarknezevic6158]

Hello. Tal , Judit and Rashid. Chess art!

[@mikecyclingsocal912]

Extraordinary!

[@-AxisA-]

3:51 Yes! I just keep guessing/knowing the right move almost everytime in any chess KZbinr's "pause the video" moment and I'm only a novice player:D 700-1000 rated in different modes on platforms.

[@moesheri9385]

Thx Jerry 😊

[@hazemfoda3662]

Amazing ❤❤

[@sammer11069]

Incredible

[@tahir2443]

so nice

[@MoonBurn13]

The amazing part of this game is, if Jerry’s theory is correct, Tal’s calculation out from move 15 to 22. And how could Jerry’s analysis be incorrect? If Tal hadn’t done the calculation exactly, his 15th would have started a slow seppuku.

[@LogioTek]

According to Garry Kasparov, Tal didn't calculate (this is also why he was so good at blitz, his opponents didn't have enough time to calculate): GK: I worked a bit with Tal. Around 1980, he visited Baku, we played a couple of training games, and the chess contact wasn't lost until Tal's very last days. There was a blitz tournament in Moscow, one month before Tal's death. He looked horribly. But Tal was still Tal. In this blitz tournament, I lost my only game to him. I retaliated in the second round, but the fact was that until the very end, he still had this vision of games. He was the only one I knew who didn't calculate the variants, he saw them. EK: Can you elaborate? GK: We calculate: he does this then I do that. And Tal, through all the thick layers of variants, saw that around the 8th move, it will be so and so. Some people can see the mathematical formulae, they can imagine the whole picture instantly. An ordinary man has to calculate, to think this through, but they just see it all. It occurs in great musicians, great scientists. Tal was absolutely unique. His playing style was of course unrepeatable. I calculated the variants quickly enough, but these Tal insights were unique. He was a man in whose presence others sensed their mediocrity.

[@LogioTek]

I study TALented (pun) people across various fields and just like Kasparov says, indeed there are people like Tal who "just see it all instantly" from their instinct and intuition. Their brains are wired differently from birth. It's not something that can be learned. You can scan these people with MRI while they are solving puzzles pertaining to their fields and you will find that compared to ordinary people, their brains have additional and surprising areas very active when they are presented with puzzles. This rare condition is called synesthesia. For example, some musicians can process audio information with their visual cortexes and that gives them an instant "glimpse" of ideas as pictures and colors and they can instantly and fluently improvise on any random sound input.

[@MoonBurn13]

@@LogioTek I read once (it might have been a Fisher biography) where the scientific observations were that there are three fields where the genius shows before puberty: Math, Music, and Chess.

[@JS-jk1qc]

More Tals games please Jerry!

[@orapronobis1040]

GREAT ANALYSIS. TAL IS SO SUBTLE AS USUAL

[@horvathliviu2101]

Thanks¡

[@TheMarkODonohue]

Hey Jerry I was wondering whether you could start a series where people beat Magnus? It’s a pretty rare occurrence and I know we all love to see Magnus masterclasses, but a playlist of people taking him down would be cool as well!

[@ChessNetwork]

“How to defeat Magnus” 😎

[@huberhg]

The Magician from Riga

[@konstantinoskountousias3099]

Tal is the best of all time

[@flippert0]

Game is more than 50 years old now. Both Tal and Spasski are legends in their own rights. Spasski is 87 now and still among us.

[@harryposner7584]

I had the honour of playing Spassky in 1971 in Toronto during an open Swiss system tournament. I played the Averbach gambit (cheeky for a twenty-year-old!) against Spassky, but lost the game. Afterwards he told me that he made an error in the middle game and I could have had a draw! Kasparov also annotates this game with Tal in his "My Great Predecessors" books, mentioning my game in passing. Great memory!

[@M.KEY_HEMIN]

Wow

[@roydavis7561]

Hey Jerry, go browns.

[@ChessNetwork]

0-3 in pre 😎

[@precioustreasures6045]

If you played ....Rxf2! Then you must be very very careful of Kramnik😂

[@loplop7029]

Hi Jerry.

[@ChessNetwork]

Hi Lop^2. 👋

[@bhargavabhat9227]

Memories of anton^2?

[@loplop7029]

@@bhargavabhat9227 Hi. No. Max Ernst, the painter, lost his sister to scarlet fever when he was young. He would always have these repeated motifs of a two-headed bird that represented the memories of him and his sister. The name of the two-headed bird was “loplop.” You’re the first person who ever asked.

[@brianlara8651]

Tal !

[@esotericman22]

Spassky plays 90% accuracy and still gets mullered!

[@schaflp6867]

wassup

[@wmbriggz]

Tal was only 37 years old but 12 years from his world championship title… Spassky was only a year past the fisher match so in his prime……. Always have to wonder in this type of Russian situation if the game had been agreed to beforehand….still… tal did have a period of great success during this decade…. Pretty game…