The Magic of Tal | Mikhail Tal vs Boris Spassky, Tilburg 1980

[@PowerPlayChess]

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[@ananthakumarrajamani3625]

Absolute magic on the board by the legendary Misha!!! Looking 10 odd moves ahead and choking the opponent 👌👍 Those days, no computers, no engines, only practice, reading, analyzing and implementing on the board Outstanding stuff

[@kenneththompson4655]

I will forever wonder how great Tal would have been if he had been blessed with good health!!

[@TheOneMonk]

Perhaps he was as good as he was at chess just because he had health issues and that led to developing strenghts in other areas?

[@joseraulcapablanca8564]

fantastic attack from Tal, with the same themes as the magnus and Boris games, illuminating anlysis. It is worth noting that Magnus has produced strategical masterpieces with both sides of the Breyer. thanks Daniel and keep up the good work.

[@samahitabanerjeeganguly768]

Amazing analysis and great comentary.

[@mrmarkstv6585]

I really enjoy watching your videos while eating ice cream.

[@PowerPlayChess]

That is living!

[@mrmarkstv6585]

@@PowerPlayChess Could you please show the game where Spassky won with the Breyer against Tal.

[@nickjackson6962]

Sorry I’m late! Powerplay to 100k!

[@PowerPlayChess]

Lol

[@CraigPendlebury]

You had me at "Tal"

[@tome57a]

Spassky, if I remember correctly, liked the Breyer and had good results with it. Thanks GM King for another great game in the RUY LOPEZ!

[@timmarshall4881]

Another wonderful game. Thank you very much indeed. I hope you will pursue these games.

[@AlwaysAudacity]

As you build your channel up, keep this in mind. I follow several chess channels, wherein the commentator tells me every piece moved from the beginning, e4, e5, nf3 etc. What your doing, starting the game in the background with some story in the foreground is much more engaging. I shouldn't feel as if the person presenting the game is reading it off the pgn in Stockfish. And stories about the players, fleshing them out into 3D is great as well.

[@PowerPlayChess]

Thank you for the feedback! I will continue in the same vein!

[@letslevelup112]

Loved it! Ty for the content king!

[@chrisgroves4097]

Awesome video. Please also consider covering Kasparov-Petrosian 0-1, Tilburg 1981

[@MMhb-dj1hj]

When you think you have seen all Tal masterpieces and a video pops up showing yet another one. RIP magician from Riga. P.S. Great commentary as always by Mr King.

[@strong8705]

Tal and engines sac and then sac some more. On the opposite, me and other patzers see 4 times guarded e4, so move Pe4-e5 instantly goes to list of eliminated moves, which we have instead of list of candidates. "Bizarre blunder of tempo and material" ;)

[@epicchess2021]

Awesome thanks

[@RoyGazoff]

Great stuff! Bright coverage. More, please

[@bobby2ram]

Splendid game by Tal and Kings commentary equally scintillating

[@KrishnaKumar-np3tw]

Really entertaining. Wonder if you have a Tal series, would love to see (and understand) the genius's games.

[@landilevanaj3499]

One of my favorite chess players Tal I really like that kind of attack is amazing. Daniel once again thank you so much for ur videos!

[@lucasddo8612]

darn when you said ''tal found something even better'' i was looking for checkmate all over the place. Turns out it's just some kind of long inbetweener to improve the position of his queen :D

[@dariuszgietka1457]

Such a beauty break in the center e5 ! Nice win over one of Tal chess nemesis.

[@johnballard6725]

Surely the best loved chess player of all time due to his slashing attacks! Even more amazing how creative he was considering his serious medical issues for much of his life.He even discharged himself from hospital near the end of his life to play in a chess tournament and did pretty well!

[@jprw]

Tal played a secret match with Fischer around 1980

[@markilsemann950]

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[@PowerPlayChess]

Very decent of you to say so Mark, and thank you for your contributions!

[@beefboi9993]

More Tal games

[@Ash_4949]

Please make video on Danish Gambit. Line, traps etc.

[@I_runn]

1K completed

[@JohnSmith-od5kh]

8:34 Yes I did spot it, because in Tal's book, knights only go forward.

[@LordArpamies]

just brilliant

[@user-svqmbiv]

4:05 I feel like if you gave Tal a choice between attacking the enemy king and not doing that; that he'll attack the enemy king almost every time.

[@hildebrand142]

poor gyula breyer. great results in early 1920-s. Dead of heart problems at age 28. hope he enjoyed every minute of his short life. the hypermodern movement is absolutely fascinating to me.

[@Opferschach]

Do you have a playlist of games in the Spanish? I am sure you already have a lot of Spanish games on the channel, but without a playlist I can't find most of them.

[@PowerPlayChess]

These opening playlists are available to Patrons contributing a mere $10 per month: www.patreon.com/powerplaychess You get great benefits and also support the channel!

[@rossgeller422]

My dream came true finally😢😢😢

[@otherguylb5629]

Brilliant game. I never liked Spanish as black, I just did not understand how to be active and obviously as an amateur, playing for a draw as black is ridiculous. During this game I felt that Black should have pushed those queenside pawns somehow. I had a game in a tournament few years ago and I played Spanish there as black. All I could think of was to just smash the opponent with my queenside pawns and ended up winning the game. My opponent won the tournament with a stupid tiebreak rule though, he had more consecutive wins. But ya, that was my only Spanish as Black in a competitive classical game. :D

[@brianbailey3374]

Totally unrelated, why did David Howell resign in 2003 Staunton, I think his queen takes your queen?

[@royprovins7037]

Surprising Tal was over 2700 in 1980

[@nomennescio317]

Look at Tal's rating!

[@taljechin]

Qd1! instead of Bd1! this time! :) All these crushing wins for White makes me wonder why Black bothers with the Breyer when he could play the Philidor and save a couple of tempii on Nbd7 in one move and not weakening the q-side with a6+b5. Still a bit passive, but it seems more solid...

[@PowerPlayChess]

The Breyer is a very rich system. Just because I have shown a couple of wins, don't believe it is bad!

[@TheOneMonk]

While the knight sacrifice on h5 is a very nice move in deed, the perhaps better move was Sf5! After Nxh5 Black shouldn‘t take the knight on h5 but instead play ..f6. Of course white has the advantage then and must win but Sf5! seems clearer.

[@makerKID5]

This is a question for anyone who reads this: If a player really wants to improve should that player study master games that were before a certain era. For example should a player really be looking at Morphy, Anderssen or even Marshall games? What is the cut off if there is one?

[@PowerPlayChess]

There is no cut off! Often those games that seem one-sided demonstrate valuable principles!

[@fundhund62]

For me, it's more a question of how good the commentary is. Any well annotated master game is helpful, but there is a certain shortage of those, as far as I'm concerned. That's one of the reasons this chanel is so great!

[@amitbharati8941]

Whom do you consider top 3 experts in Ruy Lopez opening?

[@PowerPlayChess]

I don't think one could ever say who were the greatest experts in the Ruy Lopez. Kasparov, Fischer, Karpov, Carlsen, Anand...that's a starting point!

[@maciejatkowski5524]

This game is a good example of why I never felt comfortable playing e5 and especially closed Spanish with Black - passive but solid, without space and would love to play it as White because he has all the fun in the world and what Black has in return is the queenside but really I don't feel it.

[@achronos999able]

The key move for me as black is getting Bg4 pinning the knight to the queen. If I can get it in it makes all the difference in my games. White can't play h3 g4 to push it away because it's too weakening. The bishop either ties down the white queen or the queenside knight to defend the pinned knight. Even if white wriggles out of the pin long term you have both bishops protecting your king.

[@maciejatkowski5524]

@@achronos999able And that's exactly why White plays h3 instead of the immediate d4 in the mainline.

[@achronos999able]

@@maciejatkowski5524 Yeah. I usually play Bg4 right after c3. Here Spassky castled instead of Bg4. Both are considered fine for black

[@zalooooo]

@@achronos999able i believe most people consider that an inaccuracy. Bg4 should only be played if d4 is played by white. Otherwise, white plays d3, shuffles the knight over to g3 and then pushes the bishop back before playing d4. He gets to do the same thing but your light squared bishop isn't really accomplishing anything now

[@callidus9421]

Is Tal's rating correct? 2705 in 1980 seems kinda high. I always assumed Karpov to be the only one to be over 2700 in those days. Moreover Korchnoi would have to be no 2 in the world and I'm fairly certain he never was over 2700.

[@PowerPlayChess]

Apparently this rating is correct. In 1979 he had won the super tournament in Montreal and the Riga Interzonal tournament with 14/17...!

[@callidus9421]

@@PowerPlayChess Wow.Being over 2700 in 1980 makes his career even more impressive.

[@callidus9421]

I actually found the rating list of 1980: Indeed I was right regarding Korchnoi in that he never was over 2700, but Tal overtook him as no. 2 in the world. fidelists.blogspot.com/2008/02/january-1980-fide-rating-list.html?m=0

[@tobylerone007]

This was such a dry position. Tal is the best!

[@slowslav6653]

the position wasn t dry at all

[@tobylerone007]

@@slowslav6653 It was. Tal made something happen with some creative pawn pushes.

[@slowslav6653]

@@tobylerone007 this kingside combination could have been played by any good GM if you look at Tal Games he usually plays much more creative

[@paulsontag9233]

Young Spassky owned Tal but later Spassky couldn’t beat him.

[@skakdosmer]

“Magic of Tal” = first like, then watch.

[@markusfleischmann4865]

Agreed

[@oliverangermuller9827]

What a massacre. The position after e5 from White speaks for itself. All of Whites pieces are pointing towards the black King. Playing this variation against Tal seems to me like suicide.

[@grudgesgalore8666]

tal was way better than spassky , just my opinion !

[@crimeanapolitan8564]

Too much, man. Too much.

[@MichaelLorenz]

Please don't say "Brayer". It's BREYER!

[@PowerPlayChess]

Not in west London. Nor in Hungary, according to my sources and, after all, Gyula Breyer was Hungarian.