For those of you who don't know the story behind Tal moving his pawn from C6 to C5 was that Fischer said in an interview that the Soviets were afraid to play the Sicilian against him and they only used the Caro-Kann to defend against Fischer. But Tal was not scared to challenge Fischer to a Sicilian game and he decided to troll Fischer a bit by playing C6 then C5.
Maybe Tal got so sick from Soviet arm twisting destroying his immunity. Like Spassky said of the "Fischer Fear" and Soviet 'dragging them to the carpet,' if they lost to Fischer.
@@henryseidel5469 spoken well, by one who fails to elaborate on who or what Fischer was speaking of when he verbally attacked the "Bolsheviks". (P.S. I recommend people read the thousands of contemporary articles to verify Fischer's contemporary views. i.e., his mother marching to Moscow in 1961 to protest Soviet/U.S Nuke tensions and in favor of disarmament and even met with Khrushchev-- ah, but you know nothing of that, or Fischer, posing in 1958, giving the peace / Anti-War sign -- knew nothing of his anti-USSR sentiments, or how he wrote the article about Soviet Cheating?? Why do you omit all this information sir? Fischer had his anti-war, anti-cheat political views, to be sure! And he was correct, even Vishy Anand eventually confessed about '72, the Russians didn't wanna cheat, they were ordered to, and you know what Boris Spassky had to say about the rematch Fischer invited him to? Moscow forbid Spassky to travel to it! But you try to hide this and so much more, to make the USSR Imperial Tyranny out to be a ... lamb... the ... 'good guy'... the 'victim' of undue criticism. BAH! You don't know his history well at all, and not qualified to speak. I have those photos, and provide concrete documented evidence. Please elaborate on the "Bolsheviks", or do you wish to cover up historical facts... including who or what the "Zionists" are. No, they're not Jews. They're land-grabbers... rightwing extremists who hide behind a religion to legitimatize their genocidal ethnic cleansing. Most Zionists are Fundamentalist Xtians and carry great power with AIPAC... and Bobby Fischer was very much opposed. If you please, elaborate! You know, the Atheist Theodore Herzl, which the Jewish people opposed.... like @jewish voice for peace... @TorahJews... @NetureiKartaInternational... you don't want to hide such important information from the public do you, Henry? You don't want to be a white supremacist colonizing land-grabber with your Gulags, and Apartheid Checkpoints, now do you, Henry. Yes, Bobby Fischer disliked the USSR Bolshevik /Soviet Imperialism , immensely. Stop trying to mislead people about history. They can read the newspaper archives, where I've collected thousands of newspaper articles between 1955-2008 where Bobby Fischer is mentioned. There's over 100K followers as I post daily updates and chess puzzles on Facebook. bobby-fischer-1956 blogspot com bobby-fischer-1957 blogspot com bobby-fischer-1958 blogspot com [...] bobby-fischer-1971 blogspot com et cetera
I am not interested in after-made background stories and interpretations concerning Bobby Fischer. And I am not interested in the political attitudes of his mother. In my opinion Fischer was a chess genius, who was not really involved in politics. He sat over the board with Fidel Castro, travelled through the Soviet Union to play and to get literature about the Soviet chess world, and he visited Michail Tal in hospital. "I am stll under the shock of this loss for the chess world. In my view Bobby Fischer was the most honest person in chess history. He fought against organizers and the media more than against me. He never made politics. He was a very pure personality. He could be tough from outside, but inside of him he was pure like a crystal. Very pure. " (Boris Spasski) That is what his friend Boris Spasski said about him, and he should know. To me it is a shame how Fischer was treated by his homeland. All he did was to play chess. If the Soviets has treated one of their players like this, the West would have called him a 'freedom fighter'.
Fischer was much younger then, but they are both beautiful people. No wonder they understood each other very well later on. Human behaviour beyond all political idiotism.
You gotta know a little bit about chess openings and about these two champion's playing style to enjoy this video. Tal is the craziest attacking player and tactical genius that ever lived. When he fakes the Caro Kahn with c6 he basically trolls Fischer saying: "positional game?", then pushes c5 as to state: "hell no, I'm going full tactical, what did you think?!"
More than that, in this Candidates Tournament (1959), all the USSR players were playing the Caro-Kann against Fischer, which he was unhappy about. So this was another layer to the joke
Well as per as I know ... Its from the 1959 candidates tournament ... Bobby challenged that no Soviet can play Sicilian again his e4 as he won almost all games again the same ... But Tal took the challenge and not only played Sicilian but won against Bobby. ...
Tal is funny , Fischer once said “ Soviets are cowards because they play Caro-Kann defence C6 against e4 , but Tal pretended he will play C6 then advanced the pawn to C5 , giving Fischer indirect message saying “ I am not coward “
Just a bit of context. In this candidates tournament basically every russian player went for the Caro-Kann aganist Fischer, indeed he was struggling against it and he said that the russian ware affraid to play a sicilian against him. So Tal, a mad lad taht loves attacking chess and open board, fakes a Caro-Kann (c6) and then played a Sicilian (c5), saying "we can have fun".
Those who say Mikhail Tal is the most famous and beloved chess player in India, are right. :-) Even he looses, the way he plays his moves he wins. Very nice video, love it.
Is Tal pretending to play Caro Kann while continuing with the Sicilian ? Took a while for me to get the humour of the situation. Tal and Fischer became friends later on, they made friends over all political borderlines. Real sportsmen.
@Davi Moreira It was the opposite. Fischer had been playing horribly against the caro-kann in this tournament which was employed by all the soviets and so Tal was making fun that he was gonna play CK, but played Sicilian which Bobby probably preferred to face.
Tal looks scary in this video. Something about his dark complexion. It’s like a crossover episode where one character has a completely different animation style.
It is well known what the board was at that moment. The story, told in an interview by Bobby (which can be found online), as well as in his biography, is that in that particular tournament everyone was replying with the Karo-Kann instead of the Sicilian, which was considered bad. Tal pretended to do the same holding his pawn at c6 for a few seconds and then pushing it to c5, showing he wasn't afraid of a Sicilian game.
Amazing smile of Tal. And great video footage too, I especially like the camere man transition from Tal to Fischer, and how Fischer 'reacted'. And the choice of music for the clip is great too, good taste!
Great sportsmanship from Tal. Hard to tell what Fischer thought in the moment, but there's a video of Fischer remembering Tal's delayed C5 fondly. If even Bobby liked Tal, that's saying something! 😂😂
Nice to see some pictures of how chess players trated each other - far away from political idiotism, and far away from the political soap operas and the sensationalism paparazzi make of it.
The gesture and smile : fischer said that all the soviet player are afraid to play sicilian defense against him thats why they play karocan denfence so first tal acted like he is playing karocan but after with the smile he pushes to the c5 with standard sicilian defense , showing fischer that he has guts to play sicilian against him , and tal won the game
are you sure this was 1958? i checked chessgames and it says there were only 4 games where bobby fischer played mikhail tal & tal played sicilian 1959 Candidates - 1044107 1959 Candidates again - 1044001 1961 - 1008404 1962 Candidates -1008413
If this is from the 1958 Portoroz Candidates Tournament then they were both champions- Mikhail Tal was the Soviet chess champion and Bobby Fischer was the United States' chess champion. In fact the youngest US chess champion ever. Bobby could have won this game with 35B-R6!!;36 B-KT7!!;37 B-B6!! The game was played on 8-23-1958. 10-15-2021
I think, video got year wrong, it was actually 1959 Bled candidates. In Portoroz they played Ruy Lopez and it ended with draw. In 1959 Candidates they played Sicilian twice , Tal won both with black pieces. Tal also won twice with whites in 1959, so it was nightmare opponent for young Bobby in that year.
