The Magic Tactics of Mikhail Tal
Learn from the Legend
Published on 7. March 2014
336 pages
978-90-5691-456-1 (ISBN)
Description
Mikhail Tal was one of the greatest geniuses of chess history. The magician from Riga, as he was known because of his dazzling attacking games, took the chess world by storm and in 1961, at the age of twenty-three, he won the world championship.
His sacrificial style made Tal immensely popular with chess players all over the world. In this book Grandmaster Karsten Muller and chess journalist Raymund Stolze have created an instructional chess tactics guide by investigating and explaining the secrets of his breathtaking combinations. Moreover, the authors have selected from the games Tal played one hundred exercises which will teach amateurs how they can finish a game with a stunning sacrifice.
His sacrificial style made Tal immensely popular with chess players all over the world. In this book Grandmaster Karsten Muller and chess journalist Raymund Stolze have created an instructional chess tactics guide by investigating and explaining the secrets of his breathtaking combinations. Moreover, the authors have selected from the games Tal played one hundred exercises which will teach amateurs how they can finish a game with a stunning sacrifice.
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By Karsten Muller and Raymund Stulze
Content
- The Magic Tactics of Mikhail Tal
- Contents
- About this book
- Prologue - Knowledge? Intuition? Risk?
- Reflections on Mikhail T.
- Chapter I - Warm-up
- Intermezzo
- The golden rules of attack
- Exercises
- Solutions
- Intermezzo
- Sieghart Dittmann: Comments on a game of chess
- Wolfgang Uhlmann: An instructive experience
- Hans-Joachim Hecht: Encounters with Tal
- Gennady Nesis: Misha never played the star
- Evgeny Vasiukov: Tal a magnet for the public
- Chapter II - Correct Sacrifices
- Exercises
- Solutions
- Intermezzo
- Andrzej Filipowicz: Misha was extremely crafty at the board
- Rainer Knaak: Misha - a master of analysis
- Boris Spassky: Tal was the chess messiah
- What Karpov values in Tal - In conversation with Alexander Bakh
- Chapter III - Speculative Sacrifices
- Exercises
- Solutions
- Intermezzo
- Robert Hübner: In memory of Mikhail Tal
- Chapter IV - The Correct Way to Defend against the Magician
- Exercises
- Solutions
- Intermezzo
- Zurab Azmaiparashvili: He hypnotised me
- Helmut Pfleger: Excessive to the last breath Personal impressions of Mikhail Tal
- Tal played his very own brand of chess In conversation with Artur Yusupov
- This star radiated so much energy that it finally burned out In conversation with Vladimir Kramnik
- Misha lived his life In conversation with Engelina Tal
- Epilogue
- An unbroken love for chess
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Index of Names
- Game List
