Great Players of the Past: Mikhail Tal

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Check out Ben's Chessable courses here! www.chessable.com/author/BenF... GM Ben Finegold discusses four games of Mikhail Tal as part of the Great Players of the Past series. This lecture was recorded January 28, 2020, at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Atlanta (CCSCATL) in Roswell, Georgia. Originally posted on the CCSCATL Channel on January 31, 2020. So yes, you've probably seen this one before.
8:22
Tal, Mikhail vs. Fischer, Robert James
Bled-Zagreb-Belgrade Candidates (1959)
18:22
Gurgenidze, Bukhuti vs. Tal, Mikhail
USSR Championship (1957)
29:13
Tal, Mikhail vs. Tringov, Georgi
Amsterdam Interzonal (1964)
34:29
Tal, Mikhail vs. Petrosian, Tigran V.
8th Soviet Team Cup (1974)
Recorded at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Atlanta on November 6, 2018 and originally posted on the CCSCATL Channel on April 16, 2019. So yes, you've probably seen this one before.
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Intro and concluding music: “Da Jazz Blues,” by Doug Maxwell; • Da Jazz Blues - Doug M... . Thank you Doug!
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@notsogoodduck5580 Год назад

Ben: "who did petrosian beat to become world champion?" Kid: "uhhh... you?" Ben: "close"

@chanky1000 9 месяцев назад

I don't know which answer was more hilarious - ben or magnus

@DrMocktopus1 Год назад

“Fischer wouldn’t play that now, you know what the reasons are? He’s not alive.”😂😂

@thomaswyss5828 Год назад

But his spirit, the spirit in which he played and understood is not. I use it as a chesstrainer.

@thomaswyss5828 Год назад

Fisher was but a kid then. When Fischer is hyped, it is the 68-72 period..

@_nemo171 Год назад

Classical Finegold.🤣😂🤣

@briliantinoprihandikakhari6754 Год назад

the kids were silent LOL

@xibal3405 Год назад

Your sense of humor will never get old

@bhargavabhat9227 Год назад

It will never be shown in the great humor of the past

@attaynez6043 10 месяцев назад

@@bhargavabhat9227 cuz it will always be the best

@chad55009 20 дней назад

until it does. The truth hurts :D

@civil_leuthie Год назад

8 minutes in, thinking "I swear I've heard this before" then I finally read the description. Kinda feel cheated, but watching the rest of it anyway.

@Evilanious Год назад

Always repeat!

@nicholasdupont9097 Год назад

yeah I was so hyped for more tal (and more fischer a couple weeks prior!)

@SeddincY 3 месяца назад

37:24 "And then he moved his pawn back, and they agreed to a draw." His delivery of that line as if it's something that really happened really made me cracked up. Ben never fails combining chess and comedy. I just love it

@EvilSt0ner 2 месяца назад

The kid going Noooooooo had me laughing

@tonyennis1787 10 месяцев назад

When Tal was ill and in the hospital, Fischer was the only chess player who visited. he brought Tal some chess books to read.

@GraemeCree 6 месяцев назад

Yeah, Fischer wanted to make sure he was really sick, and not up to something.

@madanalym4165 4 месяца назад

@@GraemeCree😂😂

@MordimersChessChannel Год назад

The second game was played with white pieces by Hanging Pawns couple of months ago as his training. His opponent was probably the happiest person ever for getting into this variation :)

@arnislapsa1619 Год назад

greetings from Latvia, Ben!

@siIverspawn Год назад

Took me several seconds to parse the Obi-van Benoni R2D2 joke. No chance to do that in real time.

@swettyf745 Год назад

the hozier joke was genius

@briliantinoprihandikakhari6754 Год назад

"He used to be young, oh, maybe that's not Tal" LMAO

@tiagohello Год назад

Great video! Thank you so much! ❤

@tobiass3540 Год назад

Would love to see a lecture about Ivanchuk. Some great attacking games to pick from. I know, he is still playing, but he was also playing in the past, so maybe that still works :)

@joeybashaw3909 7 месяцев назад

Tal was the chess Doc Holliday. "I'm your Huckleberry.."

@haroldbeck4351 Год назад

For Ben's 'Great Players of the Present series it would be a lot of fun, if he did an episode on his old nemesis Ginger GM Simon Williams.

@Chris.4345 11 месяцев назад

he’s about to haha

@1010tuta Год назад

We absolutely love your lectures ben!

@filipsand3290 7 месяцев назад

Thanks Ben, great lecture..

@nicholasdupont9097 Год назад

god dammit, got so excited for an ostensibly new Tal lecture.

@jorgerosero1745 18 часов назад

“He played the King’s Indian every game, even after he died, before he was born and when he was white” I died on this line

@Al.2 Год назад

23:08 I love it 😂

@yosefcohen483 Год назад

27:13 is beautiful - the white rook that is about to be taken with 'check', is the piece supporting the queen to give mate. Rooks are good support beams.

@gavinjones8543 Год назад

Love that domination of Fischer by good'ol zugs!.. Im sure he took it well and congratulated Tal like a true gentleman.

@GraemeCree 6 месяцев назад

One problem with Tal is that whenever he suffered any kind of reverse, people automatically blamed his health. Like when Polugaevsky knocked him out of the 1980 Candidates, everybody said "Oh, Tal must be sick again." It wasn't until the internet let you look it up and see that Tal was only +2-8=22 against Polugaevsky lifetime that you start to think maybe Polugaevsky did win that match fair and square after all.

@brianjacob8728 Год назад

that stare after the putative queen sac on the pawn was CLASSIC. lmao.

@Dropbear2024 Год назад

I've had this position many times but never at the same time 💀never change ben

@Alex-xk6md 6 месяцев назад

Haha this guy is veey entertaining, love the dry humor, also loved your overview of english positions in yasser matches

@RobinZuFALL Год назад

Please make an episode about Ding and nepo before the world championship

@kylemenos Год назад

Probelm is Ding is a great player of the present not the past.

@StratteraCapsules Год назад

Was this reuploaded? I feel like I watched this awhile ago? Very memorable lecture!

@PsychedelicRealities Год назад

Go Ben!

@footyking265 Год назад

Great lecture!

@alhfgsp Год назад

Im sitting here snickering at those relentless puns.

@scottscheule Год назад

I know I’ve seen it before. I don’t care. I’m going to watch and pretend it’s new.

@f.d.3289 Год назад

19:24 "If you play the Obi-Wan Benoni, you should play R2 to D2. Right? You agree? Say 'no'."

@Halibut86 Год назад

Tal is the man! My only question would be if he is actively looking for these long sequences resulting in forced mate / loss of material every move or if this was rehearsed preparation

@michaels4255 Год назад

Maybe some preparation, but probably not all. Sometimes Tal's attacks were later found to be unsound (which suggests those attacks at least were not prepped), but the positions were so complex that his opponents could not find the defense in time control.

@shikaru1730 Год назад

You said you read alot of tal books as a kid, did you ever read tals winning chess combinations by tal and victor khenkin? Thoughts on the book if you have?

@roqsteady5290 Год назад

I had that book. Not sure how much Tal had to do with it though. Was a competent tactics book.

@asileris2804 Год назад

You are the man Ben, thanks for this

@kevinstrand4596 Год назад

mainly and so forth

@MrHeroicDemon 7 месяцев назад

Ahh I love ben's teaching style, and explaining fast rather than slow at times with humor. Always thanking him for shortening and having a laugh. They should pay this guy. I love tal's style, It's my favorite, I regularally do piece sac's for pawns to open the king for a good attack. I did it twice in a row, 3 piece sac, bishop bishop knight, and bishop knight and rook, both into check mates with queen. Very awesome feeling, but its on lichess, dont hate me.

@gosukiwi Год назад

haha I love when he stares at the camera

@survivaloftheidiots6239 Год назад

ben is on fire as of late

@johnjable33 Год назад

Is this a joke, or are you lucky enough to be viewing these lectures for the first time?

@FrankBakulov Год назад

19:30 Obi van Benoni & R2D2 is another brilliant joke from Ben Finegold.

@MatthewThornhillTheDoctor Год назад

i watch your videos to remind me that i am bad at chess. thanks!

@randyreal5871 Год назад

The Claw 😀

@dw3yn693 Год назад

My GOAT

@srinivasarameshkotikalapud1838 Год назад

How much is it to sponsor a lecture?

@GMBenjaminFinegold Год назад

Email Karen@atlchessclub.com for info on sponsoring lectures! - Ben’s Editor

@yosefcohen483 Год назад

Just like lady gaga - Tal was born sick. Thx GM Finegold. Any other pop-stars references? You're so awesome. Not half as awesome as your nemesis - GingerGM, but still.

@innosanto 2 месяца назад

Lets do all great players again

@vorpalinferno9711 Год назад

Who wants to see Tal vs Doofus?

@euclideszoto997 8 дней назад

Korchnoi had an impressive record against Tal.

@paulmitchell5349 Год назад

Tal 's magic has never been replicated. Not even Fischer. Too much of cigarettes or booze or food can kill a person early.............................Ben.

@h0wnr681 Год назад

It's okay, I don't think Ben eats cigarettes

@_nemo171 Год назад

Except for one thing.

@gustafcederborg9744 Год назад

Lol

@vibovitold 2 месяца назад

"Not even Fischer" I'm not sure about that "even". This wasn't Fischer's playing style at all. Fischer steered towards clear cut, "rational" positions. He didn't particularly like speculative, hyperaggressive play. He didn't appreciate Alekhine, for example ("in a sense his whole method of play was a mistake").

@pirds102010 Год назад

Nobodys laughing, but I do often :D

@roqsteady5290 Год назад

6:30 Plus score against almost everyone, except Korchnoi.

@luke46219 Год назад

7:32 maybe that's not Tal... yeah, I think it was Short. I'll see myself out.

@davidgoble8891 Год назад

I really enjoy Ben's dry humor 😂

@animalntelligence3170 Год назад

How do we know that Tal's hand was not the next step in evolution? How can you simply call a physical characteristic of the possessor of one of the greatest minds in history a "deformity" ?? I am serious.

@animalntelligence3170 Год назад

@@willywonka7812 I did say I was serious and if the "next stage in evolution" thing was somewhat fanciful, I see no reason to bring up something that the World Champ found embarassing. He was a very great man who overcame a lot to create some beautiful chess and I who among us is perfect physically let alone mentally?

@animalntelligence3170 Год назад

@@willywonka7812 someone calling him "The Claw" meant to be offensive. My last word.

@vibovitold 2 месяца назад

what would be the benefit of this mutation? why would natural selection favor it? if there is a good reason, then it will favor it, and the mutation is going to become prevalent in the gene pool. that's how you find out if something is beneficial or not. what we do know is that it hasn't happened over the last 200 thousands years or so,.

@nicholasdupont9097 Год назад

Holy hell 37:34

@inspectorlunge3887 6 месяцев назад

27:28

@imaginitivenickname6770 Год назад

I wouldn’t see the hanging pawn 30:20

@davidgriffiths7696 Год назад

Botvinnik I knew it

@andriyandriychuk 10 месяцев назад

Wizard from Riga!

@GraemeCree 6 месяцев назад

Mednis labeled 12... Bf6 as the losing move.

@Ericapires12 Год назад

TAl🎉

@pirds102010 Год назад

"He looked like he died a few years ago" Haha :D

@brianerpelding 4 месяца назад

That's the move you would have played,right? Ya 😅

@riverajavieri 3 месяца назад

❤🤭👏👏👍👍

@electorofsaxony7646 Год назад

Instant click

@xaosIncorporeal Год назад

Harry Nelson Pillsbury, short lived but certainly an American genius between Morphy and Fisher

@GraemeCree 6 месяцев назад

He was a world class player, certainly. I don't know if that makes him a genius, though (other world class players will tell you it does). Of course, these days, doing "this" before you borrow from the bank is genius, so the whole concept of genius has been dumbed down somewhat.

@camreese Год назад

Repost

@_nemo171 Год назад

Confusing the audience.

@nimzomitch Год назад

Mmmm consolidation content! Etcetera.

@_nemo171 Год назад

Mainly etcetera.

@timothymiller806 3 месяца назад

1.25x Ben is pretty chipper

@lukemarks3281 Год назад

Ben crappin on tal way too much there to start it off lol

@unjust7156 Год назад

Ben, I just got banned on your Twitch stream after sending my very *first* message, which was "play moore". That was during your break, after your 20-0 streak on today's Titled Tuesday.(grats btw, loved every second even tho I was banned) I requested an unban, but nothing. Just wanted to let you know your mods aren't very nice. 'Capeych' was my username.

@nicholasdupont9097 Год назад

I got banned years ago for inviting him to join my Krazy Knights Klub.

@fireballxl-5748 Год назад

50k in 1988 was equal to 130k in 2023.

@scottrackley4457 7 месяцев назад

Gonna admit, the first videos I didn't particularly take to your delivery. Then you aged well and I got the joke. Well, not exactly well, you need to go up a shirt size.