November 9th is Tal’s Birthday! Is there a greater attacking player than Tal was?
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no i think he definitely lives up to the role of greatest attacking player of all-time.
Just a note: The official site says that there are no games today.
http://www.russiachess.org/eng/content/view/12/71/
It seems that Tal’s birthday will be rest day for Tal Memorial…
http://nellacoloniapenale.splinder.com/
Tal was not only a great chessplayer, he had terrific charisma; this is something sorely lacking today.
Happy Birthday Tal, we all miss you and wish you were still with us. My only wish is that you had written more.
I would have to say Fischer is also one of the top attackers but I don’t believe he took as many risks of losing in order to create a win (eg. questionable sacrifices) etc.
So I’d have to go with Tal on the “attack at any and all costs” vote.
“Some sacrifices are sound, the rest are mine.” – Tal
I would have loved to have seen a Tal vs Fischer World Championship!Both men respected each other and there truly would have been spectacular explosive chess on the board!! Not for the faint hearted.
P.S. Whats a draw? LOL
The young Tal was a great attacker. The older Tal was stronger in other phases of the game – something even he acknowledged in interviews later in his career.
The wonderful thing about Tal was that he accepted that the clock was a factor – he realized that one didn’t have to find some “holy grail” truth to a position and that some of his moves may not have been completely sound – but they posed so many problems that his GM opponents with only a fixed amount of time, couldn’t always find the correct line of play.
A great player!
Tal is Tal. There is no one like him. He is a great chess legend, an original personality and a great humanitarian. I spent time with him twice and was overwhelmed by his generosity, cultured manners, story telling, humanitarianism, and analytical insight. Please do not compare anyone else with Tal.
Thanks for the reminder, Susan. Tal is one of my favorite players!
Fist Tal. After him, Alekhine and Shirov.
Happy Birthday to the magician!
“I shall observe for the thousand and first time: years of analysis and minutes of play are not quite the same thing” – Mikhail Tal.
This great quote shows that many people foolishly call his sacrafices unsound.
If you think he is so unsound why don’t you play him and prove it when his move is unsound? Great players like Fischer, Kasparov, etc failed to do this over the board.
Why is he unsound amateurs? Because a GM or Mr. Fritz said so?
In Baseball and Football there are many extremely famous plays that can be rerun on historical highlight sports shows.
But in chess the most famous moves tend to be blunders. For instance, people remember Spassky’s 1972 blunder 27. Qd3c2?? Bd7:a4 28. Resigns, in Spassky-Fischer game 5.
Yet chess does have a precious few excellent moves that the chess public at large does remember.
I suspect the two best remembered great moves in chess history are….
[1] One great move widely remembered is Fischer’s queen sacrifice in Byrne-Fischer 1956. 17… Bg4e6!!! 18. Bc5:Qb6.
http://
http://www.bobby-fischer.net/
game_of_the_century_chess.htm
[2] Tal had what I think is the other best remembered move. Against Smyslov in 1959 Candidates’ competition, Tal sacrificed his bishop in return for merely one tempo, to aid a high speculative king side attack that was just beginning to take form. 14. Qd4h!!! b5:Bc4.
http://
http://www.chessmaniac.com/
2006/10/chess.php
Gene Milener
http://CastleLong.com/
Dear Susan,”the greatest attacking player”…. difficult but interesting question. I’m douting between Fischer and Tal. Well…I think 1. Fischer 2. Tal 3. Alekhine 4.Kasparov. René
sure Tal was the most aggresive attacking player of all times followed by Bobby and tpalov, but the last has still to prove to be effective; i was thinking of Morphy? what do u think?
And of course all those aggresive players of the 18th century!!!
Until someone finds a way to bring back alive Tal, here´s a way to do so, although im not to sure if its a good idea to bring back people who are already dead.
Krinstinsson Tahl.
Siciliana. Reykjavik, 1974.
e4 c5
Sf3 e6
d4 c.d4
Sd4 a6
Sc3 Dc7
Ld3 Sf6
0-0 Sc6
Le3 Lb5
a3 Lb7
De2 Se5
h3 Tc8
f4 Sc4!?
Sdb5! axb5
Sxb5 Dc6
Sa7 Sxe3!
Sxc6 Lc5!
Kh2?! Sxf1+
Txf1 Lxc6
c4 d6
Dc2?! Ld4
L4 e5
f5 Ke7
a4 g6
L5 La8
De2 Tcg8!
a5 h5
g3 Th7
Kg2 Thg7
fg6 Tg6
fxg6 Txg6
Tf3 Sh7
De1 Sg5
Tf1 Sxe4
Lxe4 Txg3+
Kh2*/DxT!?? Tg2+
Kh1 Tg1+
Txg1/Kh2 P_E. Txg1+
Dxg1 Lxe4+*/Bxg1
0-1. c´est fini.
You can´t beat him, can yo??
RIP dear Tal.
By the way if he were alive he would reach the not so great year of 70.!!!!
thanks for reminding us of his bday, ill try and write a littole about him and dot down his last game, in case u dear susan or any blogger is interested in looking at the game at least your more than welcome to look it at the jb blog. i hope u dont mind me stealing u picture for that purpose, that in case i can download it properly.
bye to all, take care and be hayppy.
jctahl luishernandez714
Fri Sep 22 17:41:28 P.M.
d2d4- g8f6
c2c4 d7d6
g1f3 e7e6
g2g3 f8e7
f1g2 b8a6
0-0 a6b4
d1a4+ b4c6
b1c3 a7a6
d4d5 e6xd5
c4xd5 f6xd5
c3xd5 0-0
d5xe7+ d8xe7
a4c4 c8e6
c4d3 c6b4
d3b1 c7c5
f3g5 a8d8
b1xh7++.
Of course Kasparov is the Greatest.
His sacrifices stand the test of time.