Tal's last chess game
Mikhail Tal vs. Gary Kasparov
Annotated by:
excile (1200)
Chess opening:
Sicilian (B51), Canal-Sokolsky (Nimzovich-Rossolimo, Moscow) attack
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11. f4
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Tal being aggressive,attacking the knight. |
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11... h6
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Kasparov decides to ignore that by playing h6. An in-between-move. |
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12. Bh4
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Tal Retreats his bishop. and now another in-between-move. |
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12... g5
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The point is that kasparov wants to get rid of the f-pawn. He wants to make a hole on e5 to take advantage of. |
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13. fxe5
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Tal decides to exchange the knight. |
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13... gxh4
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Pawn takes bishop. Black gets a double isolated h-pawn. Kasparov perhaps hopes to play Rg8 soon,putting pressure on Tal. |
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14. exd6
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Tal wanted to delay any pressure against himself. And get rid of the double e-pawn. |
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14... Bxd6
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Hence after Bxd6 even more pressure gets added on Tal's king. Kasparov threatens to play h3,Bxh2,Rg8 and Tal has to do something. And he did. Try to see what move Tal found before scrolling down. |
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15. Nd5
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Nd5!? a typical Tal move, attacking Kasparovs queen. |
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15... exd5
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Kasparov must have wasted some serious seconds thinking how to reply but in the end he decided to accept this knight sacrifice. Remember that this was a blitz game and i find sacrifices like these in a blitz game quite amazing! |
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16. exd5+
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Pawn takes Pawn with check! |
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16... Kf8
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Kasparov played Kf8 |
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17. Qf3
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Tal had probably this position on his board,on his preperations. This was the point of this knight sacrifice. And now suddenly out of nowhere (unfortunately!) kasparov lost on time. He probably spend time thinking on how to react to this knight sacrifice. I would have been very pleased to see how this game would have gone if Kasparov didn't loose on time. Maybe Ne6+ comes on the right moment? who knows. So this was a nice last game by Tal. He opened with his favorite e4 and managed to make a sacrifice against kasparov. gg. |
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