Tal once said that his favorite way of winning was to spot a trap that his opponent had laid, "fall into it" and then reverse the trap on his opponent.
@@scarfacepug4844 It's in "My Life & Games", which is indexed by opening and opponent. Tracking it down is a 500 page endeavor. I've read it multiple times, but that's why I'm so reluctant to go searching for it again.
Didn't know there were still so many interesting Tal games! Glad you aren't waiting for each milestone to present these gifts to us.... time to enjoy the show!
I remember a story about Tal in his later years, having a very good tournament (I don't remember where or when). Someone asked him what he was doing to play so well, and he responded. "Walking around, smoking some cigarettes, sacking some pieces."
Tal comes through did we ever doubt Not at all to be Tals student his opposition is truly Blessed to have such a great tutor My Favorite Player Mikhail
8:04 in last pause the video, I don't understand why Nd5 doesn't work... If Nxd5 then Bxd5 and If Rxb3 then Nxf4... In both the cases everything is fine for white!!
One would think so, but I remember watching Romanishin’s advancement during the 70’s, he was no scrub. That said, Tal was still Tal whenever he wasn’t in hospital. Had Tal not been both a heavy smoker and chronically ill, and Fischer more mentally stable, I think Botvinnik’s prediction would have proven true: that Tal and Fischer would have been contesting the WC for at least a decade.
8:10 why not nd5, taking advantage of the hanging knight on f4, and if nxd5 then bxd5 saving the bishop. Or is 2 pieces for the rook better than being up a piece?
For the second pause the video moment: My immediate reaction would have been to just move the knight to d5. If he takes my bishop I take his knight. If he takes my knight, I can take back with the bishop, moving him out of harms way. I would be up a full piece and not just up the exchange. What did I miss?
@@henrikschrder7115 What if after nd4, g5, white just plays bc4? Then black cannot take the knight on h4 without leaving his own knight hanging on f4. If black plays nxd4 first, white captures back with the bishop, attacking the rook.
@@Basjejo The line you said Nd5, g5 then 2 Bc4 black will play Rb4 attacking the bishop. So if white protects his Bishop with Rc1 or move it to safety black plays Nxd5 and the h4 knight is hanging, instead of saving the bishop white plays Nxf4 black just capture the bishop Rxc4 and the two knight are still attacked at f4 and h4, and also after black played Rb4 to attack the bishop white then tries Nf6+ black plays Kh8 leaving white bishop on c4 and knight at h4 hanging.
As in most games, as soon as you move your rook to the opponents back ranks its all but over. Because you rarely can kick it back out. Thats why open files are so advantageous for your rooks. Even semi open files give an advantage.
At 7:56 wouldn’t it be better to play ND5 moving the knight to safety. If the black rook takes the bishop on B3 then white will just take the hanging black Knight on F4. This will still keep you ahead by a price. If the black knight takes the white knight on D5 then white will just take the knight back with its bishop on B3 and move itself out of the rooks sight.
@@romanh2142 that's NOT the solution, black simply plays Nd3 counter-attacking the rook. Now both rook and bishop are attacked. Rb1??? Pawn to c4 wins the piece back.
Nd5. Rxb3. Nxf4. Then g5! forking both white knights and as there are no checks, captures or counterthreats from either knight, black simply wins one of them.
I think Kh2 and now you have both Knight and the Queen hanging. Although you can move the Queen and try to sustain the support to the knight, it's a rabbit hole going down that path.
@@HiImKvothe no man, how do you come to fork? White moves knight to g5, then black takes the knight with the knight and white bishop takes it back. Or black takes the bishop on b3, then white can take the knight on f4. So white hadn't give 2 pieces.
@@CrimeanHorseArcher I guess by g5 you mean d5, if you move the knight there, black takes the bishop on b3 and when you take the knight back on f4 black has g5! forking both the knight in f4 and h4
Hello mr. Radic, maybe you must add a Saga about a 5 WC consecutive match Kasparov vs Karpov, of course mr. Radic can choose just a kind of that best games.
Near the end, doesn't black Nd4 have more threats than Nc3? Once white Na5, then move your black king so no discovery, or move black bishop to prepare attack the white N on a5... and win a piece back... white out of defenders. Wasn't that more playable than a weak black Na3 move? It just seems that there were still chances, and should play it out instead of resigning.
Agadmator>>> Can you tell me if the Nezhmetdinov-gambit in the Siesta-variation in the Ruy Lopez is known under other names? It´s just that I can´t find it mentioned anywhere except in Jakov Estrin´s little book "Gambits" which in my country (Denmark) is called "Gambitplay in chess". Ruy Lopez and Siesta-variation I can find, but not Nezhmetdinov-gambit. Therefore I thought it might have another name in chesslitterature that is more known. If you want to I can give you all the moves and different waters the play can enter into, because I took a copy of the pages where Nezhmetdinov.gambit is mentioned.
And black is not moving, right??? WEAK beginners always calculating just one move... that's why it's so EASY to defeat people like you. Knight to d3, counter-attacking the rook!
In the second" pause the video moment",can white play Nc4? If the black rook captures the white bishop then whites knight can capture blacks knight. And if black's knight captures white's knight,then white's bishop can capture the black knight,also saving white's bishop from the attack
In the 2nd pause-the-video moment, can anyone tell me why white playing Nd5 doesn't allow him to keep his piece advantage. If Rxb3, then white takes the knight. If black takes the knight, white retakes with the bishop saving it.
#Suggestion Gellert Karacsonyi vs Pranav V. 0-1 Reykjavik Open 2023 round 3 An interesting queen endgame nd a smash at the end by Pranav! Your analysis is awaited!
what do people think about the take back button online? If someone does an obvious miss click then I'll accept...im rating at 1400 and I run in to people a few times a day that blunder and then when I don't accept they make me wait the whole game, I wish that button wasn't there.
women's chess 1 - Anna Cramling's dad beats Mikhail Tal. #suggestion 2 - Philippine women's chess #suggestion - WGM Janelle Frayna, the female Wesley So, upset Georgian GM (really GM not just WGM) Bela Khotenashvili at the 2022 world blitz. There's a 13-move UNDERPROMOTION puzzle here. [Variant "From Position"] [FEN "6k1/6b1/1p1P3p/6pP/3pPpP1/p2NqP2/6K1/5Q2"] 1. Qd1 a2 2. Qb3+ Kf8 3. d7 Qe2+ 4. Nf2 Ke7 5. Qd5 Kd8 6. Qe6 Bf6 7. Qe8+ Kc7 8. Qc8+ Kd6 9. e5+ Qxe5 10. d8=R+ Bxd8 11. Qxd8+ Kc6 12. Qa8+ Kb5 13. Qxa2 For some reason none of the Philippine channels except Kelvinllovejr even cover this game. LOL. But Janelle did cover the game where e drew against Nemo, so maybe Janelle will cover this game later on. P.S. Please help get Wesley So on Lex Fridman's podcast. See xcdhgq
@@jessejordache1869 winning a record 7 Russian Chess Championship against the best chess players of all time and you think he did nothing iin his life ?!!
@@ideservesomehappinessinmyl5500 You misunderstand. They key work is "simply", not "nothing". Nezhmetdinov didn't "simply" attack Tal, he did it with great complexity. Get it?
Tal once said that his favorite way of winning was to spot a trap that his opponent had laid, "fall into it" and then reverse the trap on his opponent.
Son of a
Well, mine is to simply win without me or my opponent loosing face through bad play
Source trust me bro
@@scarfacepug4844 It's in "My Life & Games", which is indexed by opening and opponent. Tracking it down is a 500 page endeavor. I've read it multiple times, but that's why I'm so reluctant to go searching for it again.
Mate in 2
Didn't know there were still so many interesting Tal games! Glad you aren't waiting for each milestone to present these gifts to us.... time to enjoy the show!
Tal is a great player. Many Kamikaze games.
When Tal 's pieces start dancing all over the board, my mind goes crazy! In this tournament Tal's play was impressive.
I remember a story about Tal in his later years, having a very good tournament (I don't remember where or when). Someone asked him what he was doing to play so well, and he responded. "Walking around, smoking some cigarettes, sacking some pieces."
Did he mean getting laid? "Sacking some pieces". Another tournament he lost 3 days bc he got beat up hitting on some Russian's wife I heard
There's no chance Mikhail Tal said "Sac-ing some pieces" 😭
Where there is Tal, there is entertainment
"Where there's a Tal, there's a way."
entertalment
Tal comes through did we ever doubt Not at all to be Tals student his opposition is truly Blessed to have such a great tutor My Favorite Player Mikhail
8:04 in last pause the video, I don't understand why Nd5 doesn't work... If Nxd5 then Bxd5 and If Rxb3 then Nxf4... In both the cases everything is fine for white!!
I was thinking just the same i dont find anything why it wouldnt work
There's pawn to g5 at the end of Rxb3 - Nxf4 which forks the two knights
@@rogelioorozco3154Ohhh... Now I see... Nd5 Rxb3 Nxf4 then there is g5 forking both the knights
Appreciate you reviewing these games from what seems to be a different planet - from same city that houses the legendary Ivanchuk
Right before his game with Tal, Oleg was chased into the playing hall by an angry mob wielding torches and pitchforks.
One would think so, but I remember watching Romanishin’s advancement during the 70’s, he was no scrub. That said, Tal was still Tal whenever he wasn’t in hospital.
Had Tal not been both a heavy smoker and chronically ill, and Fischer more mentally stable, I think Botvinnik’s prediction would have proven true: that Tal
and Fischer would have been contesting the WC for at least a decade.
Tal games by Antonio to brighten your day .
Tal was really the most creative chess genius the world has ever seen.
Wrong. Paul Morphy was.
Kasparov and Morozevich are also very original players. ;)
Tal is MUCH stronger than Paul Morphy. Take a seat.
@@majorcastleberry2624there’s a difference between strength and creativity
Magnus is a stronger player but as a creative as Tal
the story behind every game is what makes it so special. thats why we love to watch ur chess explanations. they are just very human.
Tartakower has apparently been watching my games
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Great comment
8:10 why not nd5, taking advantage of the hanging knight on f4, and if nxd5 then bxd5 saving the bishop. Or is 2 pieces for the rook better than being up a piece?
Nvm I just saw g5 at the end forking both knights 😂
i wish someone who actually know Oleg just show him this video. i'm sure he'd be happy, and it would bring back some great memories for him
Tal = Brilliance
For the second pause the video moment: My immediate reaction would have been to just move the knight to d5. If he takes my bishop I take his knight. If he takes my knight, I can take back with the bishop, moving him out of harms way. I would be up a full piece and not just up the exchange. What did I miss?
Nd4, g5,nxf4,Rxb3- both knights are hanging
@@henrikschrder7115 What if after nd4, g5, white just plays bc4? Then black cannot take the knight on h4 without leaving his own knight hanging on f4. If black plays nxd4 first, white captures back with the bishop, attacking the rook.
@@henrikschrder7115 I got it: after nd4, black *first* plays rxb3. If nxf4, only then g5.
@@Basjejo The line you said Nd5, g5 then 2 Bc4 black will play Rb4 attacking the bishop. So if white protects his Bishop with Rc1 or move it to safety black plays Nxd5 and the h4 knight is hanging, instead of saving the bishop white plays Nxf4 black just capture the bishop Rxc4 and the two knight are still attacked at f4 and h4, and also after black played Rb4 to attack the bishop white then tries Nf6+ black plays Kh8 leaving white bishop on c4 and knight at h4 hanging.
@@henrikschrder7115 So is his rook. After the dust settled I am up a full rook.
As in most games, as soon as you move your rook to the opponents back ranks its all but over. Because you rarely can kick it back out. Thats why open files are so advantageous for your rooks. Even semi open files give an advantage.
for Tal, chess was a hobby, not a career
Tal indeed made his opponent pay for his ambitions to attack him
Splendid analysis
FOr the second pause: Isn't knightd5 better ? If knight takes on c5 then just B recaptures, if rook takes bishop, then knight takes knigh
G5
Show us a game that Tal lost. That would be interesting #suggestion
At 8:18 I would of moved my b6 knight to d5?He can take m bishop but i will take his knight?
At 4:48 black knight can capture pawn on h3 check the king. Idk why thats not played
Because after king h2 your knight is attacked as well as your queen and if you go queen e6 to defend both Bishops b3 and you lose a knight.
7:57 NbD5 also holds extra piece, not?!
Rxb3 Nxf4 g5...
there's a pawn fork on the two knights once that sequence ends
thanks alot dudes🙏
@@ghasemiata usualy WEAK BEGINNERS never calculate the best move of the oponent... that's why they are so EASY to defeat!
Tal maybe the James hunt (F1) of chess.
Love watching Tal games
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At 7:56 wouldn’t it be better to play ND5 moving the knight to safety. If the black rook takes the bishop on B3 then white will just take the hanging black Knight on F4. This will still keep you ahead by a price. If the black knight takes the white knight on D5 then white will just take the knight back with its bishop on B3 and move itself out of the rooks sight.
I went to comments to find out xD i also found this "solution"
and if black plays Nd3, with attack on rook?
@@romanh2142 that's NOT the solution, black simply plays Nd3 counter-attacking the rook. Now both rook and bishop are attacked. Rb1??? Pawn to c4 wins the piece back.
happy saturday agad
8:14 how about knight to d5? If rook captures bishop you take the horsey and if horsey takes horsey you take the knight back with the bishop.
Rxb, NxN, g5 forks the 2 knights
@@Jonathan-ec9pp I am 1800 rated player and I missed this🤦
Thanks!
The year still young that one got me 😂😂
8:15 Why not Nd5?
Nd5. Rxb3. Nxf4. Then g5! forking both white knights and as there are no checks, captures or counterthreats from either knight, black simply wins one of them.
@@alanlancaster4797 Thanks!
Thank you for the bonus fat chocobo discussion
At 8:04 isn't knight d5 better?
You mean WORSE and STUPID... he has Nd3! with counter-atttack to the rook. Rb1??? Pawn to c4!!!
8:07 what about Nd5?
Nd3 and he recoveres the piece.
4:48 Why not Nxh3 here first?
I think Kh2 and now you have both Knight and the Queen hanging. Although you can move the Queen and try to sustain the support to the knight, it's a rabbit hole going down that path.
3:42 what do you mean never reached again ?
8:03 I thought the move was knight a5 :(
Learn how the knight moves, you WEAK BEGINNER.
happy saturday antonio radic
8:05 what about kd5?
You mean Nd5 (that means knight d5, kd5 means king d5). He can simply play Nd3, counter-attacking the rook... you are a BEGINNER, right?
Beautiful
8:10 Knight to D5 was a better move not??
You get forket at the end of the sequence with pawn to g5!
@@HiImKvothe no man, how do you come to fork? White moves knight to g5, then black takes the knight with the knight and white bishop takes it back. Or black takes the bishop on b3, then white can take the knight on f4. So white hadn't give 2 pieces.
@@CrimeanHorseArcher I guess by g5 you mean d5, if you move the knight there, black takes the bishop on b3 and when you take the knight back on f4 black has g5! forking both the knight in f4 and h4
@@HiImKvotheyeah god damn it i see now. 😂
@@CrimeanHorseArcher he also has Nd3, counter attacking the rook. Rb1??? Pawn to c4!!!
Hey Brother, really appreciate what you do. Thank you.
Tal and FFVII in the same video is hard to beat! You won't find it nowhere else, only here, way to go everyone!
Can apart from Rb1 also Nd5 be played to save your piece? That was my guess, anyway. :)
The answer was already given in the comments, g5... Bloody pawn. :p
Hello mr. Radic, maybe you must add a Saga about a 5 WC consecutive match Kasparov vs Karpov, of course mr. Radic can choose just a kind of that best games.
9:20 why doeant ba3 work ??
White is probably safe with Na5 it looks fine but I've not calculated everything
Chocobos are a final fantasy staple since the second or third one I think.
Near the end, doesn't black Nd4 have more threats than Nc3? Once white Na5, then move your black king so no discovery, or move black bishop to prepare attack the white N on a5... and win a piece back... white out of defenders. Wasn't that more playable than a weak black Na3 move? It just seems that there were still chances, and should play it out instead of resigning.
How about Kd5 to hold the extra piece?
Black can just take the bishop and fork knights with g5
@@wiktorslavov8049 brilliant
K is King. Knight is N
Agadmator>>> Can you tell me if the Nezhmetdinov-gambit in the Siesta-variation in the Ruy Lopez is known under other names? It´s just that I can´t find it mentioned anywhere except in Jakov Estrin´s little book "Gambits" which in my country (Denmark) is called "Gambitplay in chess". Ruy Lopez and Siesta-variation I can find, but not Nezhmetdinov-gambit. Therefore I thought it might have another name in chesslitterature that is more known. If you want to I can give you all the moves and different waters the play can enter into, because I took a copy of the pages where Nezhmetdinov.gambit is mentioned.
What about Nd5? 8:15
Nd3...
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At 8:05, isn't ND5 defending for white?
And black is not moving, right??? WEAK beginners always calculating just one move... that's why it's so EASY to defeat people like you. Knight to d3, counter-attacking the rook!
@@KublaiKhan2025 you speak exactly like a high 600 elo guy
My skepticism is at max on this day of the year.
In the second" pause the video moment",can white play Nc4? If the black rook captures the white bishop then whites knight can capture blacks knight. And if black's knight captures white's knight,then white's bishop can capture the black knight,also saving white's bishop from the attack
Nd5 not c4 - that's what I thought
@@deebee5241 WEAK MOVE!!!! There is a fork on g5 at the end of the sequence.
didn't even noticed the bird.
Okay, the one donating as the London System likes tactics it seems
Sorry, I meant Nd5, not Nc4
In the 2nd pause-the-video moment, can anyone tell me why white playing Nd5 doesn't allow him to keep his piece advantage. If Rxb3, then white takes the knight. If black takes the knight, white retakes with the bishop saving it.
Because of Nd3 attacking the rook
Tal games and Agad =music....
The fat chocobo was in Final Fantasy IV. Not sure if it appeared before that one, as the NES Final Fantasy games bore the hell out of me.
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#Suggestion
Gellert Karacsonyi vs Pranav V. 0-1
Reykjavik Open 2023 round 3
An interesting queen endgame nd a smash at the end by Pranav!
Your analysis is awaited!
Why Jelena doesnt comment that game?
It seems like on the second pause the video moment where the rook attacks the white knight, the knight can just move to D5.
Does the Tal comb-over make him less cool in his old age, or more cool?
Makes him look like a chess wizard, especially when holding a blunt and playing crazy complex games like this against the young GMs!
Who doesn't know a Chocobo when he sees it? :O
Well instead of rb1 , would nd5 be better choice????
Why don't you cover Kateryna Lagno's games or any other game from FIDE Women's grand prix?
Because no one cares about women (aka inferior) chess. You get the rare game of brillancy from Polgar once in a while, but that's it.
I've totally been grinding FF1 on NES...level 15
Sometimes I think I’m making Tal moves when I start sacking pieces but then I lose.
Oleg’s pic is of a guy who’s already lost.
No describing games anymore???
In the name Oleg the stress is on E.
What happenee to April 1th joke?
G’day mate
what do people think about the take back button online? If someone does an obvious miss click then I'll accept...im rating at 1400 and I run in to people a few times a day that blunder and then when I don't accept they make me wait the whole game, I wish that button wasn't there.
I think there should be a setting on if the button exist, only if both player checks, the button exist.
women's chess
1 - Anna Cramling's dad beats Mikhail Tal. #suggestion
2 - Philippine women's chess #suggestion - WGM Janelle Frayna, the female Wesley So, upset Georgian GM (really GM not just WGM) Bela Khotenashvili at the 2022 world blitz.
There's a 13-move UNDERPROMOTION puzzle here.
[Variant "From Position"]
[FEN "6k1/6b1/1p1P3p/6pP/3pPpP1/p2NqP2/6K1/5Q2"]
1. Qd1 a2 2. Qb3+ Kf8 3. d7 Qe2+ 4. Nf2 Ke7 5. Qd5 Kd8 6. Qe6 Bf6 7. Qe8+ Kc7 8. Qc8+ Kd6 9. e5+ Qxe5 10. d8=R+ Bxd8 11. Qxd8+ Kc6 12. Qa8+ Kb5 13. Qxa2
For some reason none of the Philippine channels except Kelvinllovejr even cover this game. LOL. But Janelle did cover the game where e drew against Nemo, so maybe Janelle will cover this game later on.
P.S. Please help get Wesley So on Lex Fridman's podcast. See
xcdhgq
heavy meTAL
hey Antonio, tune it down. i thought we were pacing ourselves on Tal games, are you getting into a binge?
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More entertaining than Carlsen.
FIRST COMMENT! HAIL TAL !
The magician.
"This position has never been reached again." vs "We have a completely new game." Where is the line drawn?
Oleg looks exactly like Harry Beltik
Chocobo!
Only Heart
Tal❤
It's april fool, that's Ron from harry potter !
17-th!!!
tactical
One Does Not Simply Attack Tal , nezhmetdinov disagree with that
lol true, but I don't think Nezhmetdinov ever "simply" did anything in his life.
@@jessejordache1869 winning a record 7 Russian Chess Championship against the best chess players of all time and you think he did nothing iin his life ?!!
@@ideservesomehappinessinmyl5500 im sure he didnt simply win those titles
@@ideservesomehappinessinmyl5500 You misunderstand. They key work is "simply", not "nothing". Nezhmetdinov didn't "simply" attack Tal, he did it with great complexity.
Get it?
@@jessejordache1869 sure i get it
Tal is the goat
Tal >>>>>>>> fisher >>>>> magnus>>> kasporav
Chocobo
Ok the contributors are getting out of hand again smh, next thing you know one of them will be named horse sh…… or chocolate chicken.
Kn d5 fails to g5, worth mentioning