The Magic Tactics of Mikhail Tal: Learn from the Legend
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.

A special feature are the contributions from many prominent grandmasters like Spassky, Yusupov, Huebner, Uhlmann and Kramnik, who describe their personal impressions and games with the 8th world champion. The result is both an intimate portrait of Mikhail Tal and an instructive guide for lovers of his legendary combinational style.
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The Magic Tactics of Mikhail Tal: Learn from the Legend
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.

A special feature are the contributions from many prominent grandmasters like Spassky, Yusupov, Huebner, Uhlmann and Kramnik, who describe their personal impressions and games with the 8th world champion. The result is both an intimate portrait of Mikhail Tal and an instructive guide for lovers of his legendary combinational style.
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The Magic Tactics of Mikhail Tal: Learn from the Legend

The Magic Tactics of Mikhail Tal: Learn from the Legend

The Magic Tactics of Mikhail Tal: Learn from the Legend

The Magic Tactics of Mikhail Tal: Learn from the Legend

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Overview

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.

A special feature are the contributions from many prominent grandmasters like Spassky, Yusupov, Huebner, Uhlmann and Kramnik, who describe their personal impressions and games with the 8th world champion. The result is both an intimate portrait of Mikhail Tal and an instructive guide for lovers of his legendary combinational style.
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Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789056914004
Publisher: Continental Sales, Inc.
Publication date: 12/16/2012
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 6.70(w) x 9.40(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Karsten Müller (1970) is a mathematician and a chess grandmaster from Hamburg. He is a prolific writer whose books include the best selling Bobby Fischer: Career and Complete Games and The Modern Scandinavian.

Raymund Stolze (1945) is a chess trainer and journalist who lives in Berlin.

Table of Contents

About this book 7

Prologue - Knowledge? Intuition? Risk? Mikhail Tal 9

Reflections on Mikhail T. Mikhail Botrvinnik 11

Chapter I Warm-up 32

Intermezzo

The golden rules of attack 34

Exercises 36

Solutions 59

Intermezzo

Sieghart Dittmann: Comments on a game of chess 89

Wolfgang Uhlmann: An instructive experience 92

Hans-Joachim Hecht: Encounters with Tal 97

Gennady Nesis: Misha never played the star 102

Evgeny Vasiukov: Tal a magnet for the public 104

Chapter II Correct Sacrifices 106

Exercises 110

Solutions 124

Intermezzo

Misha was extremely crafty at the board Andrzej Filipowicz 147

Misha - a master of analysis Rainer Knaak 150

Tal was the chess messiah Boris Spassky 153

What Karpov values in Tal - In conversation with Alexander Bakh 155

Chapter III Speculative Sacrifices 156

Exercises 169

Solutions 177

Intermezzo

Robert Hübner: In memory of Mikhail Tal 193

Chapter IV The Correct Way to Defend against the Magician 240

Exercises 249

Solutions 275

Intermezzo

Zurab Azmaiparashvili: He hypnotised me 304

Helmut Pfleger: Excessive to the last breath Personal impressions of Mikhail Tal 306

Tal played his very own brand of chess In conversation with Artur Yusupov 312

This star radiated so much energy that it finally burned out In conversation with Vladimir Kramnik 316

Misha lived his life In conversation with Engelina Tal 318

Epilogue 320

An unbroken love for chess, by Mikhail Tal 320

Appendix 321

Bibliography 321

Acknowledgements 324

Index of Names 325

Game List 329

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