Mikhail Tal, the former world champion who recently died in Moscow at the age of 55, was an authentic genius of chess. So awesome were his mental powers that one famous grandmaster complained that ...

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Mikhail Tal (1936-1992), a Soviet/Latvian chess player, was an interesting man. He was a grandmaster at 21, a world champion at 23 (that record has since been broken by Garry Kasparov who won the ...

The games of yesteryear which are considered elegant masterpieces were contested without the assistance of computers. When we re-examine them with assistance of technology we realize they are ...

7th Mikhail Tal Chess Memorial 2012 winners (from left) Teimour Radjabov, third; Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana, second. Fabiano Caruana was taken in by Levon Aronian’s home preparation.

Mikhail Tal was world champion for only one year but the "magician from Riga" has gained the accolade of "genius" more than any other player in chess history because of the imaginative fantasies ...

The Mikhail Tal Memorial is a chess tournament played in Moscow each year since 2006, to honour the memory of the former World Champion Mikhail Tal who died in 1992. - Source: Wikipedia ...

Mikhail Tal From a Far is a documentary exploring the unpredictable and tragic life of the genius world chess champion Mikhail Tal Rigas native son Mikhail Tal becomes the youngest world chess ...