[Event "Riga"]
[Site "Riga"]
[Date "1949.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Josif Israel Zilber"]
[ECO "C07"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "65"]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 c5 4.exd5 Qxd5 5.Ngf3 Nc6 6.Bc4 Qh5
7.dxc5 Bxc5 8.Ne4 Nge7 9.Bg5 Qg4 10.Qd3 b6 11.O-O-O O-O 12.Bf6
Qf4+ 13.Kb1 gxf6 14.g3 Qh6 15.g4 Qf4 16.g5 fxg5 17.Nfxg5 Ng6
18.h4 Nb4 19.Qh3 e5 20.Qg2 Bf5 21.h5 Kg7 22.hxg6 h6 23.Bxf7
Rxf7 24.gxf7 hxg5 25.Nxg5 Qxf2 26.Ne6+ Kxf7 27.Qg7+ Kxe6
28.Rh6+ Bg6 29.Qxg6+ Ke7 30.Rh7+ Kf8 31.Qg7+ Ke8 32.Qd7+ Kf8
33.Rh8# 1-0

[Event "Riga"]
[Site "Riga"]
[Date "1952.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Karlis Klasup"]
[ECO "A80"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "127"]

1.d4 f5 2.e4 fxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f3 d5 5.fxe4 dxe4 6.Bc4 Bf5
7.Nge2 Nc6 8.O-O e6 9.Bb5 a6 10.Ba4 Qd7 11.Bg5 O-O-O 12.Kh1
Be7 13.Bxf6 Bxf6 14.d5 exd5 15.Bxc6 bxc6 16.Nd4 Bg4 17.Qd2 Qd6
18.Nb3 c5 19.h3 h5 20.Na5 e3 21.Qxe3 d4 22.Qe4 dxc3 23.Qb7+
Kd7 24.Nc4 Qd4 25.Nb6+ Ke8 26.bxc3 Qd6 27.Nc4 Qg3 28.Rae1+ Kf8
29.Re3 Qh4 30.Qxc7 Kg8 31.Kg1 Bc8 32.Rf4 Qg5 33.Ref3 Kh7 34.h4
Rd1+ 35.Kh2 Qd5 36.Rg3 Bg4 37.Rxf6 Qxc4 38.Rf5 Kh6 39.Rxh5+
Kxh5 40.Qxg7 Qf4 41.Qxh8+ Kg6 42.Qg8+ Kf5 43.Qc8+ Ke5 44.Qxg4
Qxg4 45.Rxg4 Rd2 46.Rg5+ Kf4 47.Rxc5 Rxc2 48.Rc6 Kg4 49.Rc4+
Kh5 50.a4 Rd2 51.Kh3 Rd3+ 52.g3 Rd6 53.a5 Rd5 54.g4 Kg6
55.Rc6+ Kf7 56.Rxa6 Rd3+ 57.Kg2 Rxc3 58.h5 Kg7 59.Rb6 Ra3
60.a6 Kf7 61.Kh2 Kg7 62.g5 Ra5 63.Rb7+ Kg8 64.a7 1-0

[Event "LAT-ch Tal"]
[Site "LAT-ch Tal"]
[Date "1953.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Mark Pasman"]
[ECO "B93"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "80"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.f4 e5 7.Nf3
Nbd7 8.Bd3 Be7 9.O-O O-O 10.Kh1 b5 11.a3 Qc7 12.fxe5 dxe5
13.Nh4 Nc5 14.Bg5 Qd8 15.Nf5 Bxf5 16.Rxf5 Nfd7 17.Bxe7 Qxe7
18.Nd5 Qd6 19.Qg4 g6 20.Raf1 f6 21.h4 Kh8 22.R5f3 f5 23.exf5
Qxd5 24.fxg6 Rxf3 25.g7 Kg8 26.Bxh7+ Kxh7 27.Rxf3 Ne4 28.h5
Ndf6 29.Qg6+ Kg8 30.h6 Ra7 31.Kh2 Re7 32.Rh3 Nh7 33.Rd3 Qa8
34.Qxe4 Qxe4 35.Rd8+ Kf7 36.g8=Q+ Kf6 37.Rd6+ Kf5 38.Qg6+ Kf4
39.g3+ Ke3 40.Rd3+ Qxd3 1-0

[Event "Kharkov"]
[Site "Kharkov"]
[Date "1953.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Isaak Birbrager"]
[Black "Mikhail Tal"]
[ECO "A70"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "76"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3 exd5 5.cxd5 d6 6.e4 g6 7.Nf3
Bg7 8.Bd3 O-O 9.O-O Na6 10.Nd2 Nb4 11.Be2 Re8 12.a3 Na6 13.Re1
Nc7 14.Qc2 Rb8 15.a4 b6 16.Nb5 a6 17.Nxc7 Qxc7 18.Ra2 Qe7
19.f3 Nh5 20.Nf1 f5 21.Bd3 f4 22.g4 Bd4+ 23.Kh1 Qh4 24.Re2 Qh3
25.Rg2 Qxf3 26.Nd2 Qe3 27.Nf1 Qf3 28.Nd2 Bxg4 29.Nxf3 Bxf3
30.h4 Rf8 31.Be2 Ng3+ 32.Kh2 Bxg2 33.Kxg2 Nxe2 34.Qxe2 f3
35.Qxf3 Rxf3 36.Kxf3 Rf8+ 37.Kg3 Be5+ 38.Kg2 Bf4 0-1

[Event "Riga"]
[Site "Riga"]
[Date "1953.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Straume"]
[ECO "C84"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "115"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.d4 exd4 7.e5
Nd5 8.Nxd4 Nxd4 9.Qxd4 Nb6 10.Qg4 Nxa4 11.Qxg7 Rf8 12.Bh6 d5
13.Qxh7 Bd7 14.Nd2 Bb5 15.c4 dxc4 16.Ne4 Nxb2 17.Bxf8 Bxf8
18.Nf6+ Ke7 19.Rfe1 Qd4 20.Re4 Qc5 21.e6 Kd6 22.e7+ Kc6
23.Qxf7 Bxe7 24.Rxe7 Kb6 25.Rxc7 Qd4 26.Rxb7+ Ka5 27.Qd5 Rd8
28.Qxd4 Rxd4 29.h3 c3 30.Rc1 Kb4 31.Re7 Bc4 32.Ne4 Rd1+
33.Rxd1 Nxd1 34.Nxc3 Nxc3 35.h4 Bxa2 36.h5 a5 37.h6 Bb1 38.h7
Bxh7 39.Rxh7 a4 40.g4 a3 41.Ra7 Na4 42.Rb7+ Kc3 43.Rb1 Kc2
44.Re1 Nc3 45.g5 a2 46.g6 Nb1 47.g7 a1=Q 48.g8=Q Kd2 49.Qe6
Qg7+ 50.Kf1 Nc3 51.Qe3+ Kc2 52.Rc1+ Kb3 53.Qxc3+ Qxc3 54.Rxc3+
Kxc3 55.Ke2 Kd4 56.Kf3 Ke5 57.Kg4 Kf6 58.Kf4 1-0

[Event "Riga"]
[Site "08"]
[Date "1954.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "9"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Vladimir Sergeevich Saigin"]
[Black "Mikhail Tal"]
[ECO "A31"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "58"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.Nf3 e6 4.g3 cxd4 5.Nxd4 d5 6.Bg2 e5 7.Nf3
d4 8.O-O Nc6 9.e3 Be7 10.exd4 exd4 11.Nbd2 Be6 12.Re1 O-O
13.b3 Qd7 14.Bb2 Rad8 15.a3 a5 16.Ne5 Nxe5 17.Rxe5 b6 18.Nf3
Bc5 19.Qd2 Ng4 20.Ree1 d3 21.Rf1 Qd6 22.Qc3 f6 23.Rad1 Rfe8
24.Rd2 Bf5 25.Ng5 Ne3 26.fxe3 Bxe3+ 27.Kh1 Bxd2 28.Qxd2 Re2
29.Qc3 Rxg2 0-1

[Event "Riga"]
[Site "Riga"]
[Date "1954.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Yuri Averbakh"]
[ECO "C47"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "80"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.d4 exd4 5.Nd5 Nb4 6.Nxd4 Nxe4
7.Nf5 c6 8.Nxb4 Bxb4+ 9.c3 Qf6 10.Qf3 Nxc3 11.a3 Ba5 12.Bd2 d5
13.Ng3 Qe6+ 14.Qe3 d4 15.Qxe6+ Bxe6 16.f3 O-O-O 17.Kf2 Bb6
18.bxc3 dxc3 19.Be3 Bxe3+ 20.Kxe3 Rhe8 21.Ne4 Bd5 22.g4 Bxe4
23.fxe4 Rd5 24.Rc1 g6 25.Bg2 f5 26.gxf5 gxf5 27.Rhf1 fxe4
28.Rxc3 Rh5 29.Rh1 Rh4 30.Rc4 Kc7 31.Rxe4 Rexe4+ 32.Bxe4 Rh3+
33.Bf3 c5 34.Rg1 b5 35.Rg7+ Kb6 36.Rb7+ Ka6 37.Rb8 Rxh2 38.Be2
Rh3+ 39.Ke4 c4 40.a4 Rh4+ 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Leningrad (RUS)"]
[Date "1956.01.12"]
[EventDate "1956.??.??"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Abram Khasin"]
[Black "Mikhail Tal"]
[ECO "B88"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "72"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Bc4 e6 7.O-O
a6 8.Be3 Qc7 9.Bb3 Be7 10.f4 b5 11.f5 Nxd4 12.Qxd4 O-O 13.fxe6
Bxe6 14.Rad1 Rac8 15.Kh1 Rfd8 16.Nd5 Bxd5 17.exd5 Nd7 18.Qf4
Bf6 19.Bd4 Re8 20.c3 Re7 21.Bc2 Bxd4 22.Qh4 Nf8 23.Rxd4 Re2
24.Bf5 Rce8 25.Rb4 Rd2 26.Be4 Qe7 27.Qe1 Rxd5 28.Qf2 Re5
29.Bd3 Nd7 30.Rf4 Nc5 31.Rxf7 Nxd3 32.Qf3 Re1 33.Qd5 Qxf7
34.Qxf7+ Kh8 35.Kg1 Rxf1+ 36.Qxf1 Re1 0-1

[Event "Uppsala"]
[Site "Uppsala"]
[Date "1956.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Borislav Ivkov"]
[ECO "C97"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "65"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3
O-O 8.c3 d6 9.h3 Na5 10.Bc2 c5 11.d4 Qc7 12.Nbd2 Bd7 13.Nf1
Rfe8 14.Ne3 g6 15.b4 cxb4 16.cxb4 Nc4 17.Nxc4 bxc4 18.Re3 Bf8
19.Bb2 Bh6 20.Ra3 Qb7 21.dxe5 Qxb4 22.Qd4 Nh5 23.exd6 Bg7
24.e5 Bc6 25.Re3 Bxf3 26.Bc3 Qb5 27.gxf3 Rad8 28.f4 Re6 29.Rb1
Qc6 30.Rb6 Qc8 31.Bd1 Bh6 32.Bxh5 gxh5 33.f5 1-0

[Event "Riga"]
[Site "Riga"]
[Date "1957.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Alexander Koblents"]
[Black "Mikhail Tal"]
[ECO "A97"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "77"]

1.d4 e6 2.c4 f5 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.g3 Be7 5.Bg2 O-O 6.O-O d6 7.Nc3
Qe8 8.Re1 Qg6 9.e4 fxe4 10.Nxe4 Nxe4 11.Rxe4 Nc6 12.Re3 Bf6
13.d5 exd5 14.cxd5 Ne5 15.Nxe5 Bxe5 16.Rb3 Bf5 17.Rxb7 Bc2
18.Qd2 Rae8 19.Rxc7 Bd3 20.Qb4 a5 21.Qa4 Bxg3 22.hxg3 Re1+
23.Kh2 Be4 24.Be3 Qh5+ 25.Bh3 Rxe3 26.Rxg7+ Kxg7 27.Qd4+ Kg8
28.Qxe3 Bf5 29.g4 Bxg4 30.Rg1 Rxf2+ 31.Kh1 Qxd5+ 32.Bg2 Qh5+
33.Bh3 Qd5+ 34.Bg2 Qd2 35.Qxd2 Rxd2 36.Bf3 h5 37.Bxg4 hxg4
38.Rxg4+ Kf7 39.Ra4 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1957.01.21"]
[EventDate "1957.??.??"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Lev Aronson"]
[Black "Mikhail Tal"]
[ECO "A97"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "72"]

1.d4 e6 2.c4 f5 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 Be7 5.g3 O-O 6.Bg2 d6 7.O-O
Qe8 8.Re1 Qg6 9.e4 fxe4 10.Nxe4 Nxe4 11.Rxe4 Nc6 12.Qe2 Bf6
13.Bd2 e5 14.dxe5 dxe5 15.Bc3 Bf5 16.Nh4 Bxh4 17.Rxh4 Rae8
18.Qe3 h6 19.b4 Qf6 20.b5 Nd8 21.Bd5+ Kh8 22.f4 exf4 23.Qd2
Qb6+ 24.Bd4 Qg6 25.Qxf4 Kh7 26.Qxc7 Bb1 27.Be5 Ne6 28.Qd6 Qf5
29.Bf4 Ng5 30.Qb4 Be4 31.Bxe4 Rxe4 32.Rf1 Re2 33.Qd6 Rxa2
34.Qd5 Qc2 35.c5 Rd8 36.Bd6 Re8 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1957.02.11"]
[EventDate "1957.??.??"]
[Round "15"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Konstantin Klaman"]
[ECO "B61"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "67"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Bg5 Bd7
7.Qd2 Nxd4 8.Qxd4 Qa5 9.Bxf6 gxf6 10.O-O-O Rc8 11.f4 Rg8 12.g3
e6 13.Bh3 Qc5 14.Qd2 b5 15.Rhe1 b4 16.Ne2 Qc4 17.Kb1 Qxe4
18.Nd4 Qb7 19.Qd3 Be7 20.Qxh7 Rf8 21.Bg4 Qc7 22.Ka1 f5 23.Bxf5
exf5 24.Rxe7+ Kxe7 25.Re1+ Kd8 26.Qh4+ f6 27.Qh6 Qa5 28.Nb3
{not 28.Qxf8+? Kc7 29.Qxf6 b3! -+} Qd5 29.Qxf8+ Kc7 30.Qxf6
Re8 31.Rc1 Ba4 32.Qd4 Qb7 33.Rd1 Re6 34.Qc4+ 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1957.02.14"]
[EventDate "1957.??.??"]
[Round "16"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Paul Keres"]
[Black "Mikhail Tal"]
[ECO "E10"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "88"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 c5 4.e3 d5 5.a3 cxd4 6.exd4 Be7 7.Nc3
O-O 8.Bf4 Nc6 9.Rc1 Ne4 10.Bd3 Nxc3 11.Rxc3 dxc4 12.Rxc4 Qa5+
13.Bd2 Qd5 14.Qc2 f5 15.O-O Bd7 16.Rd1 Rac8 17.Be3 Na5 18.Rxc8
Rxc8 19.Qe2 Bd6 20.Ne5 Ba4 21.Re1 Bxe5 22.dxe5 Rd8 23.b4 Bc6
24.f3 Qxd3 25.Qxd3 Rxd3 26.bxa5 Rxa3 27.Bxa7 Rxa5 28.Bd4 Ra2
29.Rb1 Rd2 30.Bc3 Rc2 31.Bd4 Kf7 32.h4 Kg6 33.Rb4 h6 34.Rb2
Rxb2 35.Bxb2 Kh5 36.Ba3 Kxh4 37.Bf8 Kg3 38.Bxg7 h5 39.Bh6 Bxf3
40.gxf3 Kxf3 41.Kf1 b5 42.Bd2 h4 43.Bb4 h3 44.Kg1 Ke2 0-1

[Event "Reykjavik"]
[Site "Reykjavik ISL"]
[Date "1957.07.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "5"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Atanas Stefanov Kolarov"]
[ECO "B94"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "59"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 Nbd7
7.Bc4 Qa5 8.Qd2 e6 9.O-O-O b5 10.Bxe6 fxe6 11.Nxe6 Kf7 12.Nxf8
Rxf8 13.Qxd6 b4 14.Nd5 Qxa2 15.Rhe1 Kg8 16.Bxf6 gxf6 17.Rd3
Qa1+ 18.Kd2 Qxb2 19.f4 b3 20.Ne7+ Kh8 21.Rxb3 Qa2 22.Qd5 Ra7
23.Ng6+ Kg7 24.Nxf8 Kxf8 25.e5 Nxe5 26.Qc5+ Kg8 27.Qxc8+ Kf7
28.fxe5 Qa5+ 29.Qc3 Rd7+ 30.Kc1 1-0

[Event "Italien"]
[Site "Italien"]
[Date "1957.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Giovanni Ferrantes"]
[Black "Mikhail Tal"]
[ECO "E60"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "82"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.c4 Bg7 4.Nc3 O-O 5.e4 d6 6.h3 e5 7.dxe5
dxe5 8.Be3 Qe7 9.Qb3 Nc6 10.Nd5 Qd8 11.Bd3 Nd4 12.Bxd4 exd4
13.O-O Nh5 14.g4 c6 15.gxh5 cxd5 16.cxd5 Qf6 17.Bc4 b5 18.Be2
Re8 19.Qd3 Qf4 20.Rfe1 Rxe4 21.Qd2 Bb7 22.Qxf4 Rxf4 23.hxg6
hxg6 24.Nd2 d3 25.Bxd3 Rd4 26.Nb3 Rxd3 27.Nc5 Rxd5 28.Nxb7 Rb8
29.Na5 Bxb2 30.Nc6 Rg5+ 31.Kf1 Bxa1 32.Nxb8 Bd4 33.Nc6 Bb6
34.Re4 Rc5 35.Nb4 a5 36.Nd3 Rc3 37.Nf4 Rf3 38.Nd5 Rxf2+ 39.Ke1
Bc5 40.Nc7 Rxa2 41.Nxb5 Rh2 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Riga (RUS)"]
[Date "1958.??.??"]
[EventDate "1958.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Alexander Kazimirovich Tolush"]
[ECO "E53"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "55"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 c5 5.Nf3 d5 6.Bd3 O-O 7.O-O
Nbd7 8.a3 cxd4 9.Nxd5 exd5 10.axb4 dxc4 11.Bxc4 Nb6 12.Bb3
dxe3 13.Bxe3 Nbd5 14.Bc5 Re8 15.Re1 Rxe1+ 16.Qxe1 b6 17.Bd4
Bb7 18.Rd1 Qe8 19.Be5 Qb5 20.Bxf6 gxf6 21.Qe4 Qxb4 22.Nd4 f5
23.Qe5 Ne7 24.Qf6 Bd5 25.Nc6 Qxb3 26.Nxe7+ Kf8 27.Re1 Be6
28.Nxf5 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Riga (RUS)"]
[Date "1958.??.??"]
[EventDate "1958.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Yuri Averbakh"]
[Black "Mikhail Tal"]
[ECO "A76"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "70"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c5 4.d5 exd5 5.cxd5 d6 6.e4 g6 7.Be2
Bg7 8.Nf3 O-O 9.O-O Re8 10.Qc2 Na6 11.Bf4 Nb4 12.Qb1 Nxe4
13.Nxe4 Bf5 14.Nfd2 Nxd5 15.Bxd6 Nf6 16.Bf3 Nxe4 17.Nxe4 Bxe4
18.Bxe4 Qxd6 19.Qc2 Re7 20.Bf3 Rae8 21.Rad1 Bd4 22.a4 b6 23.b3
Re5 24.Rd2 h5 25.Re2 Rxe2 26.Bxe2 h4 27.Kh1 Qf4 28.g3 Qf6
29.Qd1 Rd8 30.Bg4 Bxf2 31.Qe2 Rd2 32.Qe8+ Kg7 33.gxh4 Qd4
34.Bh3 Qd3 35.Bg2 Rd1 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Riga (RUS)"]
[Date "1958.??.??"]
[EventDate "1958.??.??"]
[Round "12"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Efim Geller"]
[ECO "C96"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "65"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3
O-O 8.c3 d6 9.h3 Na5 10.Bc2 c5 11.d4 Bb7 12.b4 cxb4 13.cxb4
Nc4 14.Nbd2 d5 15.exd5 exd4 16.Nxc4 bxc4 17.Qxd4 Bxb4 18.Rb1
Bxe1 19.Rxb7 Re8 20.d6 Qc8 21.Bg5 Re2 22.Rc7 Qe6 23.Nxe1 Rxe1+
24.Kh2 Rd8 25.Bxf6 gxf6 26.Re7 Qxd6+ 27.Qxd6 Rxd6 28.Rxe1 Rd2
29.Rc1 Rxf2 30.Be4 Rxa2 31.Rxc4 a5 32.Rc8+ Kg7 33.Rc7 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Riga (RUS)"]
[Date "1958.??.??"]
[EventDate "1958.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Boris Spassky"]
[Black "Mikhail Tal"]
[ECO "E26"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "146"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. a3 Bxc3+ 5. bxc3 c5 6. e3 Nc6
7. Bd3 e5 8. Ne2 e4 9. Bb1 b6 10. Ng3 Ba6 11. f3 Bxc4 12. Nf5
O-O 13. Nd6 Bd3 14. Bxd3 exd3 15. Qxd3 cxd4 16. cxd4 Ne8
17. Nf5 d5 18. a4 Nd6 19. Nxd6 Qxd6 20. Ba3 Nb4 21. Qb3 a5
22. O-O Rfc8 23. Rac1 Qe6 24. Bxb4 axb4 25. Kf2 Qd6 26. h3 Kf8
27. Rc2 Rxc2+ 28. Qxc2 g6 29. Rc1 Qd7 30. Qc6 Qxc6 31. Rxc6
Ra6 32. a5 b3 33. axb6 b2 34. b7 b1=Q 35. Rc8+ Kg7 36. b8=Q
Ra2+ 37. Kg3 Qe1+ 38. Kh2 Qxe3 39. Rg8+ Kf6 40. Qd6+ Qe6
41. Qf4+ Qf5 42. Qd6+ Qe6 43. Qg3 Qe3 44. h4 Re2 45. Qd6+ Qe6
46. Qf4+ Qf5 47. Qh6 Ke7 48. Qf8+ Kf6 49. Qg7+ Ke7 50. Ra8 Qd7
51. Qf8+ Kf6 52. Ra6+ Re6 53. Qh8+ Ke7 54. Ra8 Re1 55. Kg3 h5
56. Kf2 Re6 57. Rc8 Rd6 58. Qf8+ Kf6 59. Re8 Re6 60. Qh8+ Kf5
61. Qh6 Kf6 62. Qh8+ Kf5 63. Rd8 Qc6 64. Rc8 Qa6 65. Kg3 Qd6+
66. Kh3 Re1 67. g3 Rg1 68. f4 Re1 69. Rc2 Qe6 70. Rf2 Rh1+
71. Kg2 Qe4+ 72. Rf3 Kg4 73. Qc8+ f5 0-1

[Event "Varna"]
[Site "Varna"]
[Date "1958.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Bozidar Djurasevic"]
[ECO "B62"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "81"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd2
a6 8.O-O-O h6 9.Bf4 Bd7 10.Nxc6 Bxc6 11.f3 Qb6 12.Bc4 O-O-O
13.Be3 Qc7 14.Qf2 Nd7 15.f4 b5 16.Be2 Qb7 17.a3 Be7 18.Bf3 Nf6
19.e5 Ne4 20.Nxe4 Bxe4 21.Bxe4 Qxe4 22.Bb6 Rd7 23.Rhe1 Qb7
24.exd6 Rxd6 25.Rxd6 Bxd6 26.Qd4 Bc7 27.Bxc7 Qxc7 28.Rd1 Rd8
29.Qxd8+ Qxd8 30.Rxd8+ Kxd8 31.Kd2 Kd7 32.Kd3 Kd6 33.c4 bxc4
34.Kxc4 e5 35.fxe5+ Kxe5 36.b4 f5 37.b5 axb5 38.Kxb5 f4 39.a4
g5 40.a5 g4 41.Kc4 1-0

[Event "Portoroz Interzonal"]
[Site "Portoroz SVN"]
[Date "1958.09.03"]
[EventDate "1958.08.05"]
[Round "17"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Oscar Panno"]
[ECO "C92"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "113"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3
d6 8.c3 O-O 9.h3 Nd7 10.d4 Nb6 11.Be3 exd4 12.cxd4 Na5 13.Bc2
c5 14.e5 dxe5 15.Nxe5 Nbc4 16.Qd3 f5 17.Bb3 f4 18.Bd2 Nxb3
19.Nc6 Nxa1 20.Nxd8 Bf5 21.Qf3 Raxd8 22.Rxe7 Bxb1 23.Bxf4 Rxd4
24.Qg4 Bg6 25.Qe6+ Bf7 26.Qf5 Nc2 27.b3 Bg6 28.Rxg7+ Kxg7
29.Bh6+ Kxh6 30.Qxf8+ Kg5 31.bxc4 bxc4 32.g3 Be4 33.h4+ Kg4
34.Kh2 Bf5 35.Qf6 h6 36.Qe5 Re4 37.Qg7+ Kf3 38.Qc3+ Ne3 39.Kg1
Bg4 40.fxe3 h5 41.Qe1 Rxe3 42.Qf1+ Ke4 43.Qxc4+ Kf3 44.Qf1+
Ke4 45.Qxa6 Kd4 46.Qd6+ Kc4 47.a4 Re1+ 48.Kf2 Re2+ 49.Kf1 Ra2
50.Qa6+ Kd4+ 51.a5 c4 52.Qb6+ Kd5 53.a6 Ra1+ 54.Kf2 c3 55.a7
c2 56.Qb3+ Kd6 57.Qd3+ 1-0

[Event "Munich"]
[Site "Munich"]
[Date "1958.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Giuseppe Laco"]
[Black "Mikhail Tal"]
[ECO "A22"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "82"]

1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 d6 4.g3 g6 5.Bg2 Bg7 6.d3 O-O 7.Bd2
Nh5 8.Qc1 f5 9.Bh6 Nc6 10.Bxg7 Kxg7 11.Nd5 f4 12.Qc3 Be6
13.Nxf4 Nxf4 14.gxf4 Rxf4 15.h4 Qf6 16.Ng5 Nd4 17.e3 Rxf2
18.exd4 Bg4 19.Bf3 Rxf3 20.O-O-O Qf4+ 21.Kb1 Qxd4 22.Qxd4 exd4
23.Rhg1 Rg3 24.Rxg3 Bxd1 25.Kc1 Bh5 26.Ne6+ Kh6 27.Nxc7 Rf8
28.Ne6 Rf1+ 29.Kc2 Rf2+ 30.Kc1 a6 31.Ng5 Rf4 32.Ne4 Bf3
33.Nxd6 Kh5 34.Rg5+ Kxh4 35.Re5 h5 36.c5 g5 37.Nf5+ Rxf5
38.Rxf5 Kg4 39.Rf8 h4 40.Rd8 h3 41.Rxd4+ Kg3 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Tbilisi (RUS)"]
[Date "1959.01.13"]
[EventDate "1959.??.??"]
[Round "3"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Lev Polugaevsky"]
[ECO "B94"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "67"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg5
Nbd7 7. Bc4 Qa5 8. Qd2 e6 9. O-O Be7 10. Rad1 Nc5 11. Rfe1 Bd7
12. a3 Qc7 13. b4 Na4 14. Nxa4 Bxa4 15. Bxe6 fxe6 16. Nxe6
Qxc2 17. Qd4 Kf7 18. Rc1 Qa2 19. e5 dxe5 20. Qxe5 Qxf2+
21. Kxf2 Ng4+ 22. Kg1 Nxe5 23. Rxe5 Bxg5 24. Nxg5+ Kg6 25. Ne6
Rhe8 26. Re3 Rac8 27. Rf1 Bb5 28. Rg3+ Kh6 29. Nxg7 Rf8
30. Re1 Rf6 31. h3 Rc2 32. Re4 Rc4 33. Re5 Rc1+ 34. Kh2 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Tbilisi (RUS)"]
[Date "1959.01.14"]
[EventDate "1959.??.??"]
[Round "4"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Efim Geller"]
[Black "Mikhail Tal"]
[ECO "A71"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "84"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3 exd5 5.cxd5 d6 6.e4 g6 7.Nf3
Bg7 8.Bg5 a6 9.a4 h6 10.Bf4 Bg4 11.Be2 O-O 12.O-O Re8 13.Qc2
Qc7 14.Rfe1 Nbd7 15.h3 Bxf3 16.Bxf3 c4 17.Be2 Rac8 18.a5 Nc5
19.Bxc4 Nfxe4 20.Nxe4 Rxe4 21.Rxe4 Nxe4 22.Qxe4 Qxc4 23.Qf3
Qb4 24.Qg3 Qxb2 25.Re1 Qb5 26.Qf3 Bf8 27.h4 Qxa5 28.Rb1 b5
29.h5 g5 30.Qg3 Qa2 31.Rd1 Qe2 {31...Qa4! +-} 32.Rd3 Bg7
33.Qh3 Rc2 34.Bxd6 Rc1+ 35.Kh2 Qxf2 36.Rf3 Qg1+ 37.Kg3 Qe1+
38.Kh2 Be5+ 39.Bxe5 Qxe5+ 40.Qg3 Qxd5 41.Rd3 Qc5 42.Qg4 Qe5+
0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Tbilisi (RUS)"]
[Date "1959.01.28"]
[EventDate "1959.??.??"]
[Round "12"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "David Bronstein"]
[ECO "C96"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "85"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O b5 6. Bb3 Be7
7. c3 d6 8. Re1 O-O 9. h3 Na5 10. Bc2 c5 11. d4 Nc6 12. Nbd2
Qb6 13. dxc5 dxc5 14. Nf1 Be6 15. Ne3 Rad8 16. Qe2 g6 17. Ng5
c4 18. a4 Kg7 19. axb5 axb5 20. Rb1 Na5 21. Nf3 Qc7 22. Nd5
Bxd5 23. exd5 Rfe8 24. Qxe5 Qxe5 25. Nxe5 Nxd5 26. Ra1 Nb3
27. Bxb3 cxb3 28. Bh6+ Kg8 29. Nc6 Rc8 30. Rad1 Rxc6 31. Rxd5
f6 32. Rxb5 g5 33. Rxb3 Kf7 34. Rb7 Re6 35. Rxe6 Kxe6 36. h4
Rg8 37. f4 Bc5+ 38. Kf1 gxh4 39. Rb5 Rc8 40. f5+ Kd6 41. b4 h3
42. Rxc5 h2 43. Bf4+ 1-0

[Event "cr tx"]
[Site "cr tx"]
[Date "1960.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Gosta Stoltz"]
[ECO "B63"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "53"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd2
Be7 8.O-O-O O-O 9.Nb3 Qb6 10.f3 a6 11.g4 Rd8 12.Be3 Qc7 13.h4
b5 14.g5 Nd7 15.g6 Nc5 16.gxf7 Kxf7 17.Bh3 Na4 18.f4 Nb4 19.f5
e5 20.Nxa4 Nxa2+ 21.Kb1 bxa4 22.Na5 Rb8 23.Qd5+ Kf8 24.Kxa2
Qxc2 25.Rd2 Rxb2+ 26.Ka1 Qc3 27.Qd3 1-0

[Event "Zurich"]
[Site "Zurich SUI"]
[Date "1959.05.20"]
[EventDate "1959.05.19"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Josef Kupper"]
[Black "Mikhail Tal"]
[ECO "B96"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "48"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4
b5 8.Qf3 Bb7 9.Bd3 Be7 10.O-O-O Qb6 11.Rhe1 Nbd7 12.Nce2 Nc5
13.Bxf6 Bxf6 14.g4 Na4 15.c3 b4 16.Bc2 Nxb2 17.Kxb2 bxc3
18.Kxc3 O-O 19.Rb1 Qa5+ 20.Kd3 Rac8 21.Qf2 Ba8 22.Rb3 e5 23.g5
exd4 24.Nxd4 Bxd4 0-1

[Event "Bled-Zagreb-Belgrade Candidates"]
[Site "Bled, Zagreb & Belgrade YUG"]
[Date "1959.09.15"]
[EventDate "1959.09.07"]
[Round "6"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Robert James Fischer"]
[ECO "E93"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "81"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Be2 O-O 6. Nf3 e5
7. d5 Nbd7 8. Bg5 h6 9. Bh4 a6 10. Nd2 Qe8 11. O-O Nh7 12. b4
Ng5 13. f3 f5 14. Bf2 Qe7 15. Rc1 Nf6 16. c5 Bd7 17. Qc2 Nh5
18. b5 fxe4 19. Ndxe4 Nxe4 20. fxe4 Nf4 21. c6 Qg5 22. Bf3
bxc6 23. dxc6 Bg4 24. Bxg4 Qxg4 25. Be3 axb5 26. Bxf4 exf4
27. Nxb5 Rf7 28. Qc4 Rc8 29. Rf3 Be5 30. Rcf1 Kg7 31. a4 Ra8
32. Kh1 Qg5 33. g3 Raf8 34. gxf4 Bxf4 35. Nd4 Qh4 36. Rxf4
Rxf4 37. Ne6+ Kh8 38. Qd4+ R8f6 39. Nxf4 Kh7 40. e5 dxe5
41. Qd7+ 1-0

[Event "Bled-Zagreb-Belgrade Candidates"]
[Site "Bled, Zagreb & Belgrade YUG"]
[Date "1959.09.18"]
[EventDate "1959.09.07"]
[Round "8"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Vasily Smyslov"]
[ECO "B10"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "51"]

1.e4 c6 2.d3 d5 3.Nd2 e5 4.Ngf3 Nd7 5.d4 dxe4 6.Nxe4 exd4
7.Qxd4 Ngf6 8.Bg5 Be7 9.O-O-O O-O 10.Nd6 Qa5 11.Bc4 b5 12.Bd2
Qa6 13.Nf5 Bd8 14.Qh4 bxc4 15.Qg5 Nh5 16.Nh6+ Kh8 17.Qxh5 Qxa2
18.Bc3 Nf6 19.Qxf7 Qa1+ 20.Kd2 Rxf7 21.Nxf7+ Kg8 22.Rxa1 Kxf7
23.Ne5+ Ke6 24.Nxc6 Ne4+ 25.Ke3 Bb6+ 26.Bd4 1-0

[Event "Bled-Zagreb-Belgrade Candidates"]
[Site "Bled, Zagreb & Belgrade YUG"]
[Date "1959.10.04"]
[EventDate "1959.09.07"]
[Round "16"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Svetozar Gligoric"]
[ECO "E12"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "127"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.Nc3 Bb7 5.Bg5 Bb4 6.e3 h6 7.Bh4 g5
8.Bg3 Ne4 9.Qc2 Bxc3+ 10.bxc3 d6 11.Bd3 Nxg3 12.hxg3 Nd7 13.a4
a5 14.Rb1 g4 15.Nh4 Nf6 16.d5 Qe7 17.O-O Nd7 18.dxe6 Qxe6
19.Bf5 Qxc4 20.Rfd1 Nf6 21.Rd4 Qc6 22.Be6 Rg8 23.Bc4 Kf8
24.Bb5 Qc5 25.Rc4 Qe5 26.Rxc7 Be4 27.Bd3 d5 28.Rc6 Rb8 29.c4
Rg5 30.c5 d4 31.exd4 Qxd4 32.Bxe4 Qxe4 33.cxb6 Qxc2 34.Rxc2
Nd7 35.b7 Nc5 36.Rb5 Nxb7 37.Rcb2 Rxb5 38.Rxb5 Ke7 39.Nf5+ Kd7
40.Nxh6 Kc7 41.Nxf7 Rf8 42.Nh6 Rd8 43.Rg5 Rd1+ 44.Kh2 Ra1
45.Rxg4 Nc5 46.Rc4 Kc6 47.Nf5 Rxa4 48.Nd4+ Kb6 49.Rxa4 Nxa4
50.g4 Nc3 51.Kg3 a4 52.Kf4 a3 53.Nc2 a2 54.g5 Kc5 55.g6 Nd5+
56.Kg5 Kc4 57.g7 Ne7 58.f4 Kc3 59.Na1 Kb2 60.f5 Kxa1 61.f6 Kb1
62.fxe7 a1=Q 63.e8=Q Qa5+ 64.Kh6 1-0

[Event "Bled-Zagreb-Belgrade Candidates"]
[Site "Bled, Zagreb & Belgrade YUG"]
[Date "1959.10.11"]
[EventDate "1959.09.07"]
[Round "20"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Robert James Fischer"]
[ECO "E93"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "67"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Be2 O-O 6. Nf3 e5
7. d5 Nbd7 8. Bg5 h6 9. Bh4 a6 10. O-O Qe8 11. Nd2 Nh7 12. b4
Bf6 13. Bxf6 Nhxf6 14. Nb3 Qe7 15. Qd2 Kh7 16. Qe3 Ng8 17. c5
f5 18. exf5 gxf5 19. f4 exf4 20. Qxf4 dxc5 21. Bd3 cxb4
22. Rae1 Qf6 23. Re6 Qxc3 24. Bxf5+ Rxf5 25. Qxf5+ Kh8 26. Rf3
Qb2 27. Re8 Nf6 28. Qxf6+ Qxf6 29. Rxf6 Kg7 30. Rff8 Ne7
31. Na5 h5 32. h4 Rb8 33. Nc4 b5 34. Ne5 1-0

[Event "Riga"]
[Site "Riga"]
[Date "1959.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Svein Johannessen"]
[ECO "D15"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "53"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 g6 5.Bf4 Bg7 6.e3 O-O 7.Be2 c5
8.dxc5 Qa5 9.O-O dxc4 10.Bxc4 Qxc5 11.Ne5 Nbd7 12.Bxf7+ Rxf7
13.Nxf7 Kxf7 14.Qb3+ Kf8 15.Rac1 a6 16.Rfd1 Qa5 17.Qc4 Qf5
18.h3 Ne8 19.Nd5 Qe6 20.Qb4 b5 21.Rc6 Qf7 22.Nc7 Nxc7 23.Rxc7
Qe6 24.Rdc1 Nb6 25.Rxe7 Nd5 26.Rxe6 Nxb4 27.Bd6+ 1-0

[Event "Russia"]
[Site "Match, Moscow  (1)"]
[Date "1960.03.15"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Mikhail Botvinnik"]
[ECO "C18"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "63"]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 Qc7 7.Qg4
f5 8.Qg3 Ne7 9.Qxg7 Rg8 10.Qxh7 cxd4 11.Kd1 Bd7 12.Qh5+ Ng6
13.Ne2 d3 14.cxd3 Ba4+ 15.Ke1 Qxe5 16.Bg5 Nc6 17.d4 Qc7 18.h4
e5 19.Rh3 Qf7 20.dxe5 Ncxe5 21.Re3 Kd7 22.Rb1 b6 23.Nf4 Rae8
24.Rb4 Bc6 25.Qd1 Nxf4 26.Rxf4 Ng6 27.Rd4 Rxe3+ 28.fxe3 Kc7
29.c4 dxc4 30.Bxc4 Qg7 31.Bxg8 Qxg8 32.h5 1-0

[Event "Russia"]
[Site "Match, Moscow  (6)"]
[Date "1960.03.26"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "6"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Mikhail Botvinnik"]
[Black "Mikhail Tal"]
[ECO "E69"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "93"]

1.c4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 O-O 5.d4 d6 6.Nc3 Nbd7 7.O-O
e5 8.e4 c6 9.h3 Qb6 10.d5 cxd5 11.cxd5 Nc5 12.Ne1 Bd7 13.Nd3
Nxd3 14.Qxd3 Rfc8 15.Rb1 Nh5 16.Be3 Qb4 17.Qe2 Rc4 18.Rfc1
Rac8 19.Kh2 f5 20.exf5 Bxf5 21.Ra1 Nf4 22.gxf4 exf4 23.Bd2
Qxb2 24.Rab1 f3 25.Rxb2 fxe2 26.Rb3 Rd4 27.Be1 Be5+ 28.Kg1 Bf4
29.Nxe2 Rxc1 30.Nxd4 Rxe1+ 31.Bf1 Be4 32.Ne2 Be5 33.f4 Bf6
34.Rxb7 Bxd5 35.Rc7 Bxa2 36.Rxa7 Bc4 37.Ra8+ Kf7 38.Ra7+ Ke6
39.Ra3 d5 40.Kf2 Bh4+ 41.Kg2 Kd6 42.Ng3 Bxg3 43.Bxc4 dxc4
44.Kxg3 Kd5 45.Ra7 c3 46.Rc7 Kd4 47.Rd7+ 0-1

[Event "Hamburg"]
[Site "Hamburg"]
[Date "1960.08.04"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "7"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Klaus Viktor Darga"]
[ECO "B80"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "53"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.g3 a6 7.Bg2
Qc7 8.O-O Be7 9.f4 Nc6 10.Nxc6 bxc6 11.e5 dxe5 12.fxe5 Nd7
13.Bf4 O-O 14.Ne4 Bb7 15.Qh5 g6 16.Qe2 c5 17.Nf6+ Bxf6 18.exf6
e5 19.Bxe5 Nxe5 20.Bxb7 Rab8 21.Bd5 Rb6 22.Rae1 Nd7 23.Qe7 c4
24.Kh1 Rxb2 25.Re6 Rbb8 26.Rd6 Rbd8 27.Rd1 1-0

[Event "Leipzig Olympiad Final"]
[Site "Leipzig GDR"]
[Date "1960.11.01"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "5"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Robert James Fischer"]
[Black "Mikhail Tal"]
[ECO "C18"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "42"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Ba5 6. b4 cxd4
7. Qg4 Ne7 8. bxa5 dxc3 9. Qxg7 Rg8 10. Qxh7 Nbc6 11. Nf3 Qc7
12. Bb5 Bd7 13. O-O O-O-O 14. Bg5 Nxe5 15. Nxe5 Bxb5 16. Nxf7
Bxf1 17. Nxd8 Rxg5 18. Nxe6 Rxg2+ 19. Kh1 Qe5 20. Rxf1 Qxe6
21. Kxg2 Qg4+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "Stockholm"]
[Site "Stockholm"]
[Date "1960.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Gideon Stahlberg"]
[ECO "C02"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "65"]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.c3 Nc6 5.Nf3 Qb6 6.Bd3 cxd4 7.cxd4
Bd7 8.O-O Nxd4 9.Nxd4 Qxd4 10.Nc3 Qb6 11.Qg4 h5 12.Qg5 g6
13.a4 Bh6 14.Qh4 a6 15.Bxh6 Nxh6 16.Qf6 Rf8 17.Nxd5 Qd8 18.Qf4
exd5 19.Qxh6 Qe7 20.Qe3 Bc6 21.Rac1 Rg8 22.f4 Kf8 23.f5 gxf5
24.Qh6+ Rg7 25.Rxf5 Bd7 26.Rc7 Qe6 27.Qh8+ Rg8 28.Qxh5 Rc8
29.Rxc8+ Bxc8 30.Rf6 Qe7 31.Qh6+ Rg7 32.Rd6 Qxe5 33.Qh8+ 1-0

[Event "Stockholm"]
[Site "Stockholm"]
[Date "1961.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Wolfgang Unzicker"]
[ECO "C95"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "50"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3
d6 8.c3 O-O 9.h3 Nb8 10.d4 Nbd7 11.c4 c6 12.c5 Qc7 13.cxd6
Bxd6 14.Bg5 c5 15.dxc5 Bxc5 16.Nc3 Bb7 17.Rc1 Qb6 18.Re2 Rfe8
19.Nd5 Bxd5 20.Bxd5 Rad8 21.Rec2 Be7 22.Rc6 Qa5 23.Bd2 b4
24.Bxf7+ Kxf7 25.Qb3+ Kf8 1-0

[Event "EU-chT Oberhausen"]
[Site "01"]
[Date "1961.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Roman Toran Albero"]
[Black "Mikhail Tal"]
[ECO "A21"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "50"]

1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 d6 3.g3 f5 4.d4 e4 5.f3 Nf6 6.Bg2 exf3 7.Nxf3 g6
8.O-O Bg7 9.e4 fxe4 10.Ng5 O-O 11.Ngxe4 Nxe4 12.Rxf8+ Qxf8
13.Nxe4 Nc6 14.Be3 Bf5 15.Qd2 Re8 16.Ng5 Rxe3 {One might think
that White should resign on the spot, since the Queen cannot
recapture in lieu of Bxd4. However, White has a powerful
drawing resource.} 17.Bd5+ Kh8 18.Nf7+ Qxf7 {Tal isn't
interested in a draw.} 19.Bxf7 Rd3 20.Qe2 Bxd4+ 21.Kg2 Ne5
22.Rd1 Re3 23.Qf1 Be4+ 24.Kh3 Rf3 25.Qe2 Bf5+ {Albero resigns,
as Kg2 runs into Rf2+, and Kh4 falls victim to Re3!
threatening the queen and Nf3+} 0-1

[Event "Bled"]
[Site "Bled YUG"]
[Date "1961.09.03"]
[EventDate "1961.09.03"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Borislav Ivkov"]
[Black "Mikhail Tal"]
[ECO "E92"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "136"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 O-O 6.Be2 e5 7.dxe5
dxe5 8.Qxd8 Rxd8 9.Nd5 Rd7 10.Nxf6+ Bxf6 11.c5 Nc6 12.Bb5 Rd8
13.Bxc6 bxc6 14.O-O Bg4 15.Be3 Rab8 16.b3 Bg7 17.h3 Bxf3
18.gxf3 f5 19.Rad1 Kf7 20.Bg5 Bf6 21.Bxf6 Kxf6 22.Rfe1 Rd4
23.Rxd4 exd4 24.exf5 gxf5 25.f4 d3 26.Kg2 d2 27.Rd1 Rd8 28.Kf3
Kg6 29.b4 Kh5 30.Kg3 Kg6 31.f3 Kh5 32.a3 Rd4 33.Kf2 Kh4 34.Kg2
Rd3 35.Kf2 h5 36.Kg2 Rxa3 37.Rxd2 Rb3 38.Ra2 Rxb4 39.Rxa7 Rb2+
40.Kf1 Rc2 41.Rxc7 Rxc5 42.Kf2 Kxh3 43.Rg7 h4 44.Rg5 Ra5
45.Rh5 Ra2+ 46.Ke3 Kg2 47.Rxh4 Ra3+ 48.Ke2 Rxf3 49.Rh5 Rxf4
50.Rg5+ Kh3 51.Ke3 Rf1 52.Ke2 Kh4 53.Rg6 Rc1 54.Kf3 Rc4 55.Ke3
c5 56.Kf3 Rg4 57.Rc6 c4 58.Rc5 Kg5 59.Rc6 Re4 60.Rc8 Kf6
61.Rc5 Ke6 62.Kg2 f4 63.Kf3 Rd4 64.Rc7 Kd5 65.Rc8 Rd3+ 66.Kxf4
c3 67.Rc7 Kd4 68.Rc8 Rd2 0-1

[Event "Bled"]
[Site "Bled YUG"]
[Date "1961.09.05"]
[EventDate "1961.09.03"]
[Round "3"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Fridrik Olafsson"]
[ECO "B48"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "75"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be3 a6 7.a3
Nf6 8.f4 d6 9.Qf3 Be7 10.Bd3 O-O 11.O-O Bd7 12.Rae1 b5 13.Qg3
Kh8 14.Nxc6 Bxc6 15.e5 Ng8 16.Qh3 Nh6 17.f5 Nxf5 18.Rxf5 exf5
19.Bxf5 g6 20.Bd4 Kg8 21.e6 Bg5 22.exf7 Rxf7 23.Bxg6 Rg7
24.Qe6+ Kh8 25.Be8 h6 26.Bxc6 Qxc6 27.Ne4 Re8 28.Qg6 Re7 29.h4
Qd5 30.Bxg7+ Rxg7 31.Qxd6 Qxd6 32.Nxd6 Bxh4 33.Re8+ Rg8
34.Nf7+ Kg7 35.Rxg8+ Kxg8 36.Nxh6+ Kh7 37.Nf5 Bg5 38.b3 1-0

[Event "Bled"]
[Site "Bled YUG"]
[Date "1961.09.09"]
[EventDate "1961.09.03"]
[Round "5"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Aleksandar Matanovic"]
[ECO "E24"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "82"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.a3 Bxc3+ 5.bxc3 d6 6.f3 e5 7.e4
O-O 8.Bg5 Re8 9.Ne2 h6 10.Be3 c5 11.d5 Nh5 12.g4 Nf4 13.Qd2 g5
14.Ng3 Qf6 15.h4 Na6 16.Ra2 Kf8 17.hxg5 hxg5 18.Qc1 Ke7 19.Nh5
Qg6 20.Rah2 Rg8 21.Ng3 Nc7 22.Rh7 Qf6 23.Qd2 Bd7 24.R1h6 Rg6
25.Nh5 Rxh6 26.Nxf6 Rxf6 27.Rg7 Rh8 28.Rxg5 Ne8 29.Qf2 Rh1
30.Bxf4 Rxf4 31.Rh5 Rxh5 32.gxh5 Nf6 33.Qh2 Rxf3 34.h6 Nh7
35.Qg2 Rf4 36.Qg7 Rxe4+ 37.Kd2 Bf5 38.Bd3 Nf6 39.Bxe4 Nxe4+
40.Ke1 Nf6 41.Qh8 a5 1-0

[Event "Bled"]
[Site "Bled YUG"]
[Date "1961.09.20"]
[EventDate "1961.09.03"]
[Round "12"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Jan Hein Donner"]
[Black "Mikhail Tal"]
[ECO "E69"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "112"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 O-O 5.Nf3 d6 6.O-O Nbd7 7.Nc3
e5 8.e4 c6 9.h3 Qb6 10.dxe5 dxe5 11.a3 Qc5 12.Qe2 Qe7 13.Be3
Nc5 14.Qc2 Nh5 15.b4 Ne6 16.Rad1 f5 17.exf5 gxf5 18.Ne2 f4
19.Bc1 Ng5 20.Nxg5 Qxg5 21.g4 Nf6 22.Nc3 Be6 23.Qe2 Rad8
24.Rfe1 Rxd1 25.Rxd1 h5 26.f3 hxg4 27.hxg4 Nxg4 28.Rd6 Qe7
29.Rxe6 Qxe6 30.fxg4 e4 31.Nxe4 Bd4+ 32.Kf1 f3 33.Bxf3 Qxg4
34.Nf6+ Rxf6 35.Qe8+ Kh7 36.Qe7+ Qg7 37.Qxg7+ Kxg7 38.Ke2 b6
39.Bd2 c5 40.bxc5 bxc5 41.a4 Rb6 42.Bd5 Kf6 43.Kd3 Ke5 44.Be1
Rb3+ 45.Kc2 Ra3 46.a5 Ba1 47.Bf7 Ke4 48.Bg6+ Kd4+ 49.Bf7 Ra2+
50.Kb3 Rb2+ 51.Ka3 Kd3 52.Bg3 Rb4 53.Bd6 Bd4 54.Bd5 Kc2
55.Be4+ Kc3 56.Bd5 Rb3+ 0-1

[Event "Bled"]
[Site "Bled YUG"]
[Date "1961.09.23"]
[EventDate "1961.09.03"]
[Round "13"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Bruno Parma"]
[ECO "B36"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "57"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6 5.c4 Nf6 6.Nc3 Nxd4
7.Qxd4 d6 8.Be2 Bg7 9.Be3 O-O 10.Qd2 Be6 11.Rc1 Qa5 12.b3 Rfc8
13.O-O a6 14.f4 b5 15.f5 Bd7 16.fxg6 hxg6 17.c5 Be6 18.Bf3
dxc5 19.e5 Ng4 20.Bxa8 Bxe5 21.Bd5 Nxe3 22.Bxe6 Rd8 23.Qf2 Nf5
24.Qe2 Bd4+ 25.Kh1 fxe6 26.Qxe6+ Kg7 27.Ne4 Qc7 28.Ng5 Rf8
29.Qxf5 1-0

[Event "Varna"]
[Site "05"]
[Date "1962.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Eduardo Franco Raymundo"]
[Black "Mikhail Tal"]
[ECO "A65"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "124"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3 exd5 5.cxd5 d6 6.e4 g6 7.f3 Bg7
8.Bg5 O-O 9.Qd2 Re8 10.Nge2 Nbd7 11.Nc1 a6 12.a4 Rb8 13.Be2
Qc7 14.Nb3 Qb6 15.Ra3 Ne5 16.a5 Qb4 17.Na4 Nxd5 18.exd5 h6
19.Nbxc5 dxc5 20.Bf4 Bd7 21.Nb6 Bf5 22.Kd1 Rbd8 23.Qxb4 cxb4
24.Rb3 Nc6 25.Bc4 Nxa5 26.Rxb4 Nxc4 27.Rxc4 Bd3 28.Rb4 Bf8
29.Rb3 Bb5 30.Bc7 Bc5 31.Rc3 Bd4 32.Kc1 Bxb6 33.Bxb6 Rxd5
34.Rd1 Rde5 35.b3 Bc6 36.Bf2 Rb5 37.g3 Ra5 38.Rd2 Ra1+ 39.Kb2
Rh1 40.Bb6 Rf1 41.Bf2 g5 42.f4 Kh7 43.Rc1 Rxc1 44.Kxc1 gxf4
45.gxf4 Kg6 46.Rd6+ Re6 47.Rxe6+ fxe6 48.Bd4 Kf5 49.Be5 Kg4
50.Kd2 Be4 51.Ke3 Bf5 52.Bf6 Kh3 53.Bg7 h5 54.b4 Kxh2 55.Kf2
h4 56.Bd4 Kh3 57.Kf3 Bg4+ 58.Kf2 Bf5 59.Kf3 Bc2 60.Bb6 Bd1+
61.Kf2 Kg4 62.Bc7 Bc2 0-1

[Event "Varna olm"]
[Site "Varna olm"]
[Date "1962.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Dieter A Mohrlok"]
[ECO "B63"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "61"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd2
Be7 8.O-O-O O-O 9.Nb3 Qb6 10.f3 a6 11.g4 Rd8 12.Be3 Qc7 13.g5
Nd7 14.h4 b5 15.g6 fxg6 16.h5 gxh5 17.Rxh5 Nf6 18.Rg5 Ne5
19.Qg2 Bf8 20.Be2 Nc4 21.Bxc4 bxc4 22.Nd4 Rb8 23.Rh1 Rb7
24.Rh6 Kf7 25.Rh4 Qb6 26.Nd1 Qc7 27.f4 h6 28.Rg6 Re8 29.f5 e5
30.Nc3 Qd8 31.Nc6 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Yerevan ARM"]
[Date "1962.11.23"]
[EventDate "1962.??.??"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Anatolij Bannik"]
[ECO "C87"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "55"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 d6
7.Bxc6+ bxc6 8.d4 exd4 9.Qxd4 O-O 10.Nc3 c5 11.Qd3 Bb7 12.Bf4
Nh5 13.Be3 Bf6 14.Nd5 Bxb2 15.Rab1 Bxd5 16.exd5 Rb8 17.c3 Qf6
18.Qe2 Bxc3 19.Rxb8 Rxb8 20.Bg5 Bxe1 21.Bxf6 Nxf6 22.Qxe1 Nxd5
23.g3 h6 24.Qe4 Nf6 25.Qc6 Rb1+ 26.Kg2 Rb2 27.Qxc7 Rxa2
28.Qb8+ 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Yerevan ARM"]
[Date "1962.12.17"]
[EventDate "1962.??.??"]
[Round "16"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Arkady Novopashin"]
[Black "Mikhail Tal"]
[ECO "B86"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "82"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e6 6.Bc4 Be7 7.Bb3
O-O 8.f4 Na6 9.Qf3 Nc5 10.Be3 d5 11.exd5 exd5 12.O-O Re8 13.h3
Nce4 14.Nxe4 dxe4 15.Qe2 Nd5 16.Rad1 Nxe3 17.Qxe3 Bc5 18.f5
Qf6 19.Kh1 Bd7 20.Qc3 Bd6 21.Ne6 Be5 22.Qe3 Re7 23.Nc5 Qb6
24.Qg5 Bf6 25.Nxd7 Rxd7 26.Qf4 Re7 27.Rfe1 e3 28.c3 h5 29.Re2
Rae8 30.Qd6 Qb5 31.Qd3 Qe5 32.Rf1 a6 33.Rf3 b5 34.g3 Qc5 35.a4
Qb6 36.Qc2 Qb7 37.Kg2 Rd8 38.axb5 axb5 39.Qc1 Bg5 40.h4 Rd2
41.Qf1 Rxe2+ 0-1

[Event "Miskolc"]
[Site "Miskolc"]
[Date "1963.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Theodor Ghitescu"]
[ECO "C93"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "81"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3
d6 8.c3 O-O 9.h3 h6 10.d4 Re8 11.Nbd2 Bf8 12.Nf1 Bd7 13.Ng3
Na5 14.Bc2 c5 15.b3 g6 16.Be3 Nc6 17.d5 Ne7 18.Qd2 Kh7 19.Bxc5
dxc5 20.Nxe5 Nc8 21.f4 Qe7 22.c4 Bg7 23.Nf3 bxc4 24.bxc4 Nd6
25.e5 Nxc4 26.Qc3 Bb5 27.Rad1 Rad8 28.d6 Nxd6 29.exd6 Qb7
30.Ne5 Nd7 31.Nh5 Bh8 32.Qg3 Nxe5 33.fxe5 Qd7 34.Nf4 Bxe5
35.Bxg6+ Kh8 36.Bxf7 Bd4+ 37.Rxd4 Rxe1+ 38.Qxe1 Qxf7 39.Qe5+
Qg7 40.Qxc5 Bc6 41.Rd2 1-0

[Event "Miskolc"]
[Site "Miskolc"]
[Date "1963.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Istvan Bilek"]
[ECO "B06"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "59"]

1.e4 d6 2.d4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.Nf3 c6 5.Bc4 Nf6 6.e5 dxe5 7.Nxe5
O-O 8.O-O Nbd7 9.f4 Qc7 10.Qf3 a6 11.Re1 e6 12.Bb3 c5 13.Be3
cxd4 14.Bxd4 Nxe5 15.fxe5 Nd7 16.Ne4 Bxe5 17.Bxe5 Qxe5 18.Rad1
Kg7 19.Nd6 Qc5+ 20.Kh1 Ne5 21.Qf4 f6 22.Rf1 a5 23.h4 Ra6
24.Ne4 Qe7 25.h5 h6 26.Qg3 a4 27.Rxf6 Rxf6 28.Qxe5 axb3
29.axb3 b6 30.b4 1-0

[Event "Havana"]
[Site "13"]
[Date "1963.09.12"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "13"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Rene Letelier Martner"]
[ECO "C75"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "55"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 d6 5.c3 Bd7 6.d4 Nge7 7.Bb3
h6 8.Nh4 g5 9.Qh5 Rh7 10.Bxg5 exd4 11.f4 Qc8 12.f5 dxc3
13.Nxc3 Ne5 14.Bf6 Ng8 15.Bxe5 dxe5 16.Ng6 Bd6 17.Bxf7+ Kxf7
18.Nd5 Kg7 19.O-O Nf6 20.Nxf6 Kxf6 21.Nxe5 Qe8 22.Nxd7+ Rxd7
23.e5+ Bxe5 24.Qxh6+ Kf7 25.Rae1 Rd5 26.Qh7+ Kf6 27.Re4 Bd4+
28.Kh1 1-0

[Event "Moscow"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1963.11.13"]
[EventDate "1963.10.29"]
[Round "12"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Nikola Padevsky"]
[ECO "C16"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "55"]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 b6 5.Qg4 Bf8 6.Bg5 Qd7 7.Nf3
Nc6 8.a3 Bb7 9.Bd3 h6 10.Bd2 O-O-O 11.h4 Nge7 12.O-O-O f5
13.exf6 gxf6 14.Rde1 Rg8 15.Qxe6 Rxg2 16.Qe3 Kb8 17.Bf1 Rg8
18.Bh3 f5 19.Qd3 Bc8 20.h5 Qe8 21.Bf4 Qxh5 22.Nb5 Rd7 23.Qc3
Bb7 24.Ne5 Nxe5 25.dxe5 d4 26.e6 dxc3 27.exd7 Bg7 28.Nxc7 1-0

[Event "Moscow"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1963.11.04"]
[EventDate "1963.10.29"]
[Round "6"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Svetozar Gligoric"]
[ECO "B99"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "85"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4
Be7 8.Qf3 Qc7 9.O-O-O Nbd7 10.g4 b5 11.Bxf6 Nxf6 12.g5 Nd7
13.a3 Bb7 14.Bh3 O-O-O 15.Bxe6 fxe6 16.Nxe6 Qc4 17.Nd5 Bxd5
18.exd5 Kb7 19.b3 Qc8 20.Rd3 Nb6 21.Rc3 Qd7 22.Rc7+ Qxc7
23.Nxc7 Kxc7 24.Qc3+ Kb8 25.Qxg7 Nc8 26.Re1 Rdg8 27.Qd4 Bd8
28.Re6 Rf8 29.h4 h6 30.g6 Rhg8 31.h5 Rf5 32.Qe4 Rxh5 33.Re8
Rxe8 34.Qxe8 Bf6 35.c4 bxc4 36.bxc4 Rh3 37.Kd2 Bc3+ 38.Kc2 Bd4
39.f5 Rxa3 40.c5 dxc5 41.d6 Ra2+ 42.Kd3 Ra3+ 43.Kc4 1-0

[Event "Reykjavik"]
[Site "Reykjavik ISL"]
[Date "1964.01.18"]
[EventDate "1964.01.14"]
[Round "4"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Svetozar Gligoric"]
[ECO "C97"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "79"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3
d6 8.c3 O-O 9.h3 Na5 10.Bc2 c5 11.d4 Qc7 12.Nbd2 Bd7 13.Nf1
Rfe8 14.b3 cxd4 15.cxd4 Nc6 16.Bb2 Nxd4 17.Nxd4 exd4 18.Rc1
Qd8 19.Qxd4 Bf8 20.Rcd1 Rc8 21.Bb1 Bc6 22.Ng3 d5 23.Qe3 Nd7
24.Nf5 f6 25.Qg3 Qc7 26.Qg4 Ne5 27.Bxe5 Rxe5 28.Nh6+ Kh8
29.Nf7+ Qxf7 30.Qxc8 Bb7 31.Qc3 b4 32.Qc1 dxe4 33.Rd8 g5
34.Qd2 Bc6 35.Qd6 Be8 36.Qb8 Kg7 37.Rxe4 Rb5 38.Qa8 Bd7 39.Bd3
Rd5 40.Rxf8 1-0

[Event "Reykjavik"]
[Site "Reykjavik ISL"]
[Date "1964.01.28"]
[EventDate "1964.01.14"]
[Round "10"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Freysteinn Thorbergsson"]
[Black "Mikhail Tal"]
[ECO "E77"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "78"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 O-O 5.f4 d6 6.Nf3 c5 7.d5 e6
8.Be2 exd5 9.exd5 b5 10.Nxb5 Ne4 11.O-O a6 12.Na3 Ra7 13.Bd3
Re7 14.Nc2 Rfe8 15.Re1 Nd7 16.Ne3 Ndf6 17.Qc2 Nh5 18.g3 Bd4
19.Nxd4 cxd4 20.Ng2 Ng5 21.Rxe7 Nh3+ 22.Kf1 Rxe7 23.Bd2 Nf6
24.Nh4 Ng4 25.Nf3 Re3 26.Kg2 Qe7 27.Re1 Nxf4+ 28.gxf4 Rxe1
29.Nxe1 Qh4 30.Bc1 Qxe1 31.h3 Nh6 32.f5 Nxf5 33.Bf4 Nh4+
34.Kh2 Nf3+ 35.Kg2 Bxh3+ 36.Kxf3 Qg1 37.Bxg6 Qg4+ 38.Kf2 Qxf4+
39.Kg1 hxg6 0-1

[Event "Reykjavik"]
[Site "Reykjavik ISL"]
[Date "1964.01.30"]
[EventDate "1964.01.14"]
[Round "12"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Fridrik Olafsson"]
[Black "Mikhail Tal"]
[ECO "A12"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "78"]

1.c4 Nf6 2.g3 c6 3.Nf3 d5 4.b3 Bf5 5.Bg2 e6 6.O-O Be7 7.Bb2
O-O 8.d3 h6 9.Nbd2 a5 10.a3 Nbd7 11.Bc3 c5 12.Re1 d4 13.Bb2
Qc7 14.h3 e5 15.e4 Be6 16.Nh4 g6 17.Bc1 Nh7 18.Ndf3 Ng5 19.Nh2
Nxh3+ 20.Bxh3 Bxh3 21.Bxh6 Bxh4 22.gxh4 Qd8 23.Bg5 f6 24.Bd2
Kf7 25.Qf3 Be6 26.Qg3 Rh8 27.f4 exf4 28.Bxf4 g5 29.hxg5 Rh3
30.Qg2 Qh8 31.Rf1 Rxd3 32.e5 Qh3 33.g6+ Kg8 34.Qxb7 Rb8 35.Qc6
fxe5 36.Rae1 Rdxb3 37.Rf3 Rxf3 38.Qxf3 exf4 39.Qe4 Re8 0-1

[Event "Amsterdam Interzonal"]
[Site "Amsterdam NED"]
[Date "1964.06.10"]
[EventDate "1964.05.20"]
[Round "16"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Larry Melvyn Evans"]
[Black "Mikhail Tal"]
[ECO "B40"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "96"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.Nc3 a6 4.Be2 b5 5.d4 cxd4 6.Nxd4 Bb7 7.a3
Qc7 8.O-O Nf6 9.Qd3 d6 10.Bg5 Nbd7 11.Qe3 Be7 12.Rad1 O-O
13.f4 Rac8 14.g4 Nb6 15.Bxf6 Bxf6 16.g5 Bxd4 17.Rxd4 e5 18.Rd2
exf4 19.Rxf4 Rfe8 20.Qf2 Qe7 21.h4 Nc4 22.Bxc4 Rxc4 23.Rd4
Rec8 24.Rxc4 Rxc4 25.Qa7 Qd7 26.Kf2 d5 27.Nxd5 Rxc2+ 28.Kg3
Rc8 29.Rf6 Ra8 30.Qc5 Rd8 31.Rb6 Bxd5 32.exd5 Qf5 33.Qd6 Qd3+
34.Kg2 Qc2+ 35.Kg3 Qb3+ 36.Kf4 Re8 37.Rb8 Qe3+ 38.Kg4 f5
39.gxf6 h5 40.Kxh5 Qf3+ 41.Kg5 Qxf6+ 42.Qxf6 gxf6 43.Kxf6 Rxb8
44.d6 Kf8 45.h5 Rb7 46.Ke6 Rh7 47.Kd5 Ke8 48.Kc6 Kd8 0-1

[Event "Tallinn"]
[Site "01"]
[Date "1964.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Anatoly S Lutikov"]
[ECO "C40"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "61"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d5 3.exd5 e4 4.Qe2 f5 5.d3 Nf6 6.dxe4 fxe4 7.Nc3
Bb4 8.Qb5+ c6 9.Qxb4 exf3 10.Bg5 cxd5 11.O-O-O Nc6 12.Qa3 Be6
13.Bc4 Qe7 14.Nxd5 Qxa3 15.Nc7+ Ke7 16.Rhe1 Qc5 17.Rxe6+ Kf8
18.Rxf6+ gxf6 19.Ne6+ Ke7 20.Nxc5 fxg5 21.Rd7+ Kf6 22.Rd6+ Ke7
23.Re6+ Kd8 24.Nxb7+ Kc7 25.Bd5 Nb4 26.Bxf3 Rae8 27.Nc5 Nxa2+
28.Kb1 Rxe6 29.Nxe6+ Kd7 30.Nc5+ Kd6 31.Nd3 1-0

[Event "USSR Team Championship"]
[Site "Ol URS URS"]
[Date "1964.10.15"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "3"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Vasily Smyslov"]
[Black "Mikhail Tal"]
[ECO "A36"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "144"]

1. c4 g6 2. Nc3 Bg7 3. g3 c5 4. Bg2 Nc6 5. b3 e6 6. Bb2 Nge7
7. Na4 Bxb2 8. Nxb2 O-O 9. e3 d5 10. Nf3 Nf5 11. O-O b6
12. Na4 Bb7 13. cxd5 exd5 14. d3 Qf6 15. Qd2 Rad8 16. Rfd1
Rfe8 17. Rab1 Nd6 18. Ne1 d4 19. e4 Qe7 20. Nc2 f5 21. exf5
Ne5 22. f4 Nf3+ 23. Bxf3 Bxf3 24. Re1 Qe2 25. Rxe2 Rxe2
26. Qxe2 Bxe2 27. Nb2 gxf5 28. Re1 Bh5 29. Nc4 Nxc4 30. bxc4
Re8 31. Kf2 Rxe1 32. Kxe1 Kf8 33. Kd2 Ke7 34. Ne1 a6 35. a4 a5
36. Kc2 Be8 37. Kb3 Bc6 38. Ka3 Kf6 39. Kb3 Kg6 40. Ka3 Kh5
41. h3 Kg6 42. Kb3 Kg7 43. Ka3 Kf6 44. Kb3 Be8 45. Ng2 Bh5
46. Kc2 Be2 47. Ne1 Bf1 48. Nf3 Bxh3 49. Ng5 Bg2 50. Nxh7+ Kg7
51. Ng5 Kg6 52. Kd2 Bc6 53. Kc1 Bg2 54. Kd2 Kh5 55. Ne6 Kg4
56. Nc7 Bc6 57. Nd5 Kxg3 58. Ne7 Bd7 59. Nd5 Bxa4 60. Nxb6 Be8
61. Nd5 Kf3 62. Nc7 Bc6 63. Ne6 a4 64. Nxc5 a3 65. Nb3 a2
66. Kc1 Kxf4 67. Kb2 Ke3 68. Na5 Be8 69. c5 f4 70. c6 Bxc6
71. Nxc6 f3 72. Ne5 f2 0-1

[Event "Kislovodsk"]
[Site "Kislovodsk"]
[Date "1964.07.25"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "11"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Reinhart Fuchs"]
[ECO "D10"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "85"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e3 Bf5 5.cxd5 cxd5 6.Qb3 Qb6
7.Nxd5 Nxd5 8.Qxd5 Qb4+ 9.Bd2 Qxb2 10.Rc1 Bd7 11.Nf3 e6 12.Qc4
Nc6 13.Be2 Bb4 14.Bxb4 Qxb4+ 15.Qxb4 Nxb4 16.Rc7 Bc6 17.Ne5
O-O 18.Nxc6 bxc6 19.a3 Nd5 20.Rxc6 Rfc8 21.Rxc8+ Rxc8 22.Kd2
g6 23.Bf3 Nb6 24.Rc1 Rxc1 25.Kxc1 Kf8 26.Kc2 Ke7 27.Kc3 a5
28.h4 h6 29.e4 f6 30.e5 Kf7 31.Bc6 Ke7 32.f4 Kf7 33.g3 Ke7
34.g4 g5 35.exf6+ Kxf6 36.fxg5+ hxg5 37.h5 Kg7 38.d5 exd5
39.Kd4 Nc4 40.Bb5 Nd6 41.Bd3 Ne8 42.Bf5 Nf6 43.Ke5 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship 1964/65"]
[Site "Kiev URS"]
[Date "1964.12.30"]
[EventDate "1964.??.??"]
[Round "4"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Evgeni Vasiukov"]
[ECO "B17"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "115"]

1.e4 c6 2.Nc3 d5 3.d4 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nd7 5.Nf3 Ngf6 6.Ng3 e6
7.Bd3 c5 8.O-O cxd4 9.Nxd4 Bc5 10.Nf3 O-O 11.Qe2 b6 12.Bf4 Bb7
13.Rad1 Nd5 14.Bg5 Qc7 15.Nh5 Kh8 16.Be4 f6 17.Bh4 Bd6 18.c4
Ba6 19.Nxg7 Kxg7 20.Nd4 Nc5 21.Qg4+ Kh8 22.Nxe6 Nxe6 23.Qxe6
Rae8 24.Qxd5 Bxh2+ 25.Kh1 Qf4 26.Qh5 Qxe4 27.Rfe1 Qg6 28.Qxg6
hxg6 29.Bxf6+ Kg8 30.Rxe8 Rxe8 31.Kxh2 Bxc4 32.Rd7 Re6 33.Bc3
Bxa2 34.Rxa7 Bc4 35.Kg3 Bd5 36.f3 Kf8 37.Bd4 b5 38.Kf4 Bc4
39.Kg5 Ke8 40.Ra8+ Kf7 41.Ra7+ Ke8 42.b4 Bd5 43.Ra3 Kf7 44.g4
Re2 45.Bc5 Re5+ 46.Kh6 Re6 47.Rd3 Bc6 48.Rd8 Re8 49.Rd4 Re6
50.f4 Ke8 51.Kg7 Be4 52.Bb6 Bf3 53.Rd8+ Ke7 54.Rd3 Be2 55.Bd8+
Ke8 56.Rd2 Re3 57.Bg5 Bd3 58.f5 1-0

[Event "Riga"]
[Site "Riga"]
[Date "1965.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Nikolay Zhuravlev"]
[ECO "A23"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "63"]

1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.g3 c6 4.Nf3 d6 5.Bg2 Be7 6.O-O O-O 7.d4
Qc7 8.c5 Nbd7 9.cxd6 Bxd6 10.Bg5 Be7 11.Qc2 Qa5 12.Bd2 exd4
13.Nxd4 Qh5 14.Nf5 Bd8 15.f4 g6 16.Nh4 Ng4 17.Ne4 Bxh4 18.gxh4
Qxh4 19.h3 Ngf6 20.Ng5 Nb6 21.e4 Be6 22.Bc3 Nfd7 23.Rad1 Rad8
24.b3 Rfe8 25.a4 Qh6 26.a5 Nc8 27.Bb2 Qf8 28.f5 gxf5 29.exf5
Bd5 30.Bxd5 cxd5 31.Qg2 Qc5+ 32.Bd4 1-0

[Event "Tal-Portisch Candidates Quarterfinal Match"]
[Site "Bled YUG"]
[Date "1965.06.28"]
[EventDate "1965.06.26"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Lajos Portisch"]
[ECO "B10"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "53"]

1.e4 c6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Nf3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Bg4 5.h3 Bxf3 6.Qxf3 Nd7
7.d4 Ngf6 8.Bd3 Nxe4 9.Qxe4 e6 10.O-O Be7 11.c3 Nf6 12.Qh4 Nd5
13.Qg4 Bf6 14.Re1 Qb6 15.c4 Nb4 16.Rxe6+ fxe6 17.Qxe6+ Kf8
18.Bf4 Rd8 19.c5 Nxd3 20.cxb6 Nxf4 21.Qg4 Nd5 22.bxa7 Ke7
23.b4 Ra8 24.Re1+ Kd6 25.b5 Rxa7 26.Re6+ Kc7 27.Rxf6 1-0

[Event "Tal-Portisch Candidates Quarterfinal Match"]
[Site "Bled YUG"]
[Date "1965.07.01"]
[EventDate "1965.06.26"]
[Round "4"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Lajos Portisch"]
[ECO "C11"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "63"]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 dxe4 5.Nxe4 Nbd7 6.Nxf6+ Nxf6
7.Nf3 c5 8.Bc4 cxd4 9.O-O Be7 10.Qe2 h6 11.Bf4 O-O 12.Rad1 Bd7
13.Rxd4 Qb6 14.Qd2 Bc6 15.Bxh6 Ne4 16.Qf4 gxh6 17.Rxe4 Bxe4
18.Qxe4 Rad8 19.b3 Bc5 20.Qf4 Kg7 21.Qe5+ f6 22.Qg3+ Kh7
23.Re1 Rg8 24.Qh4 Rd6 25.Kf1 f5 26.h3 Rg6 27.g4 Rd7 28.Rxe6
Rd1+ 29.Kg2 Rxe6 30.Bxe6 fxg4 31.Qxg4 Rd8 32.Ne5 1-0

[Event "Tal - Larsen Candidates Semifinal"]
[Site "Bled YUG"]
[Date "1965.07.24"]
[EventDate "1965.07.23"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Bent Larsen"]
[ECO "C66"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "73"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.O-O d6 5.d4 Bd7 6.Nc3 exd4
7.Nxd4 Be7 8.b3 Nxd4 9.Qxd4 Bxb5 10.Nxb5 Nd7 11.Ba3 a6 12.Nc3
Bf6 13.Qd2 O-O 14.Rad1 Re8 15.Rfe1 Nb6 16.Bb2 Qd7 17.a4 Qc6
18.a5 Nd7 19.Ba1 Re6 20.Nd5 Bxa1 21.Rxa1 Rae8 22.f3 f5 23.Re3
fxe4 24.Rc3 Nc5 25.Nf4 e3 26.Qd4 Re5 27.b4 e2+ 28.Re1 Qa4
29.Rc4 Nd7 30.Rxc7 Nf6 31.Qxd6 Qa2 32.h4 Nd5 33.Rc5 Nxf4
34.Rxe5 Rf8 35.g3 Qf7 36.gxf4 Qxf4 37.R1xe2 1-0

[Event "Tal - Larsen Candidates Semifinal"]
[Site "Bled YUG"]
[Date "1965.07.31"]
[EventDate "1965.07.23"]
[Round "6"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Bent Larsen"]
[ECO "B04"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "67"]

1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 d6 4.Nf3 dxe5 5.Nxe5 e6 6.Qf3 Qf6 7.Qg3
h6 8.Nc3 Nb4 9.Bb5+ c6 10.Ba4 Nd7 11.O-O Nxe5 12.dxe5 Qg6
13.Qf3 Qf5 14.Qe2 Be7 15.a3 Nd5 16.Nb5 cxb5 17.Qxb5+ Kd8 18.c4
Qxe5 19.cxd5 Bd6 20.g3 Qxd5 21.Qe2 Ke7 22.Rd1 Qa5 23.Qg4 Qf5
24.Qc4 Qc5 25.Qd3 Qd5 26.Qc3 Be5 27.Qe1 Qc5 28.Bd2 Kf6 29.Rac1
Qb6 30.Be3 Qa6 31.Qb4 b5 32.Bxb5 Qb7 33.f4 Bb8 34.Bc6 1-0

[Event "Tal - Larsen Candidates Semifinal"]
[Site "Bled YUG"]
[Date "1965.08.08"]
[EventDate "1965.07.23"]
[Round "10"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Bent Larsen"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B82"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[MovePly "73"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Be3 Nf6 7.f4
Be7 8.Qf3 O-O 9.O-O-O Qc7 10.Ndb5 Qb8 11.g4 a6 12.Nd4 Nxd4
13.Bxd4 b5 14.g5 Nd7 15.Bd3 b4 16.Nd5 {!} exd5 17.exd5 {The
piece sacrifice is a positional one, since it has been used to
erect an invisible barrier on the e-file. A number of squares
on it (e5 and e6) are controlled by white pawns, and a white
rook will soon be moved to e1. -- Iakov Damsky} f5 18.Rde1 Rf7
19.h4 Bb7 20.Bxf5 Rxf5 21.Rxe7 Ne5 22.Qe4 Qf8 23.fxe5 Rf4
24.Qe3 Rf3 25.Qe2 Qxe7 26.Qxf3 dxe5 27.Re1 Rd8 28.Rxe5 Qd6
29.Qf4 {! With this simple tactic 29 ...Bxd5 30. Re8+ White
keeps his two extra pawns. The finish is straightforward. --
Damsky} Rf8 30.Qe4 b3 31.axb3 Rf1+ 32.Kd2 Qb4+ 33.c3 Qd6
34.Bc5 Qxc5 35.Re8+ Rf8 36.Qe6+ Kh8 37.Qf7 1-0

[Event "Olympiad"]
[Site "Havana CUB"]
[Date "1966.11.17"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "12"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Julio Bolbochan"]
[ECO "B89"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "67"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Bc4
Be7 8.Qe2 O-O 9.Bb3 a6 10.O-O-O Qa5 11.Kb1 Re8 12.Rhg1 Bd7
13.g4 Nxd4 14.Bxd4 Bc6 15.g5 Nd7 16.Rd3 g6 17.h4 Nc5 18.h5
Nxb3 19.axb3 e5 20.Be3 Qc7 21.Bd2 Rad8 22.Rh1 Bf8 23.Qg4 b5
24.Qh4 b4 25.Nd1 d5 26.Ne3 dxe4 27.Ng4 f5 28.Nf6+ Kf7 29.hxg6+
Ke6 30.Nxe8 Rxe8 31.gxh7 Bg7 32.Rdh3 Bd5 33.Qh5 Kd7 34.Qxe8+
1-0

[Event "Havana"]
[Site "10"]
[Date "1966.11.15"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "10"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Erling Kristiansen"]
[Black "Mikhail Tal"]
[ECO "B42"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "70"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Bd3 d6 6.O-O Nf6 7.Be3
g6 8.c4 Bg7 9.Nc3 O-O 10.h3 Nc6 11.Nxc6 bxc6 12.f4 Rb8 13.Rf2
Re8 14.Qf3 d5 15.Ba7 Rb7 16.Bc5 d4 17.Ne2 Nd7 18.Bd6 Rxb2
19.c5 Bf8 20.Rc1 Bxd6 21.cxd6 c5 22.Qg3 Bb7 23.e5 Rxa2 24.Bc4
Ra4 25.f5 Rxc4 26.Rxc4 exf5 27.Rxf5 Be4 28.Rf1 Rxe5 29.Qf4 Qe8
30.Nxd4 cxd4 31.Rfc1 Kg7 32.Rc7 Rf5 33.Qd2 Rd5 34.R7c6 Qe6
35.Qb4 Bxg2 0-1

[Event "Havana olm 2/408"]
[Site "Havana olm 2/408"]
[Date "1966.11.05"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Robert Eugene Byrne"]
[ECO "B69"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "71"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd2
a6 8.O-O-O Bd7 9.f4 Be7 10.Nf3 b5 11.Bxf6 gxf6 12.f5 Qa5
13.Kb1 O-O-O 14.g3 Kb8 15.Bh3 Bc8 16.Rhe1 h5 17.Qe3 Bd7 18.Ne2
Ne5 19.Nf4 Ng4 20.Qe2 Rdg8 21.Nd4 Qb6 22.Rd2 e5 23.Nd5 Qd8
24.Nb3 Bc6 25.c4 Qd7 26.Na5 Bd8 27.Nxc6+ Qxc6 28.Rc1 Kb7
29.cxb5 Qxb5 30.Rd3 Ka7 31.Bxg4 hxg4 32.Qe3+ Ka8 33.Rb3 Qd7
34.Qd3 Ka7 35.Qe3+ Ka8 36.Rb6 1-0

[Event "Moscow"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1967.05.23"]
[EventDate "1967.05.21"]
[Round "3"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Istvan Bilek"]
[Black "Mikhail Tal"]
[ECO "A07"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "60"]

1.Nf3 Nf6 2.g3 b5 3.Bg2 Bb7 4.O-O e6 5.d3 d5 6.Nbd2 Be7 7.e4
O-O 8.Qe2 c5 9.Re1 Nc6 10.c3 a5 11.exd5 exd5 12.d4 Qb6 13.dxc5
Bxc5 14.Nb3 Rfe8 15.Qc2 d4 16.Qf5 Rxe1+ 17.Nxe1 Re8 18.Nf3 Bd6
19.Bg5 Ne4 20.Re1 Ne7 21.Bxe7 g6 22.Qh3 dxc3 23.Rxe4 cxb2
24.Re1 Rxe7 25.Rb1 a4 26.Nbd4 Bxf3 27.Nxf3 Re2 28.Rf1 Rxf2
29.Qc8+ Kg7 30.Qc3+ f6 0-1

[Event "Moscow"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1967.06.07"]
[EventDate "1967.05.21"]
[Round "12"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian"]
[ECO "C96"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "75"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5
7. Bb3 O-O 8. c3 d6 9. h3 Na5 10. Bc2 c5 11. d4 Nc6 12. Nbd2
cxd4 13. cxd4 Bb7 14. Nf1 Re8 15. Ng3 g6 16. Bh6 Bf8 17. Qd2
Nxd4 18. Nxd4 Bxh6 19. Qxh6 exd4 20. Rad1 Rc8 21. Bb1 Re6
22. Rxd4 Qe7 23. Qg5 Rc5 24. Qe3 Rc4 25. Rxc4 bxc4 26. Ne2 Qc7
27. Nd4 Re5 28. Nf3 Rc5 29. Rc1 Qc6 30. Nd4 Qe8 31. Re1 Re5
32. Nf3 Re6 33. Qb6 Bxe4 34. Nd4 Nd5 35. Qxa6 Re7 36. Qc6 Nf6
37. Qxd6 Re6 38. Nxe6 1-0

[Event "Moscow"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1967.05.22"]
[EventDate "1967.05.21"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Miroslav Filip"]
[ECO "B17"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "53"]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nd7 5.Nf3 Ngf6 6.Ng3 e6
7.Bd3 Be7 8.Qe2 c5 9.O-O O-O 10.Rd1 cxd4 11.Nxd4 Re8 12.b3 Qb6
13.Bb2 Nf8 14.Nf3 Bd7 15.Ne5 Rad8 16.Ne4 Nxe4 17.Bxe4 Bc8
18.Qh5 Ng6 19.Nxf7 Kxf7 20.Qxh7 e5 21.Rxd8 Rxd8 22.Qh5 Qe6
23.h3 Bc5 24.Kh1 Bd4 25.Rd1 Rd6 26.Ba3 Ra6 27.Rxd4 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Kharkov URS"]
[Date "1967.??.??"]
[EventDate "1967.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Evgeni Vasiukov"]
[ECO "B05"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "79"]

1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 d6 4.Nf3 Bg4 5.Be2 e6 6.O-O Nc6 7.c4
Nb6 8.exd6 cxd6 9.b3 Be7 10.Nc3 O-O 11.Be3 d5 12.c5 Nd7 13.b4
Nxb4 14.Rb1 Nc6 15.Rxb7 Rb8 16.Rxb8 Ndxb8 17.h3 Bxf3 18.Bxf3
Qa5 19.Qd3 Bf6 20.Rb1 Na6 21.Rb5 Nab4 22.Qd2 Qa3 23.Bd1 e5
24.dxe5 Bxe5 25.Nxd5 Nxd5 26.Qxd5 Rd8 27.Qb3 Na5 28.Qc2 Nc4
29.Bg5 Qc3 30.Kf1 f6 31.Qxc3 Bxc3 32.Bb3 fxg5 33.c6 Kf8 34.c7
Re8 35.Rb8 Nb6 36.Ba4 Rc8 37.Bd7 Be5 38.Bxc8 Bxc7 39.Rb7 Be5
40.Rxa7 1-0

[Event "Wijk aan Zee"]
[Site "Wijk aan Zee NED"]
[Date "1968.01.24"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "12"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Jan Hein Donner"]
[ECO "C18"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "59"]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 Qc7 7.Nf3
b6 8.a4 Ba6 9.Bxa6 Nxa6 10.Qe2 Nb8 11.a5 bxa5 12.Ba3 Nd7
13.dxc5 Ne7 14.c6 Qxc6 15.O-O Qxc3 16.Rfd1 Nc6 17.Bd6 Qc4
18.Qe3 Qe4 19.Qb3 Nb6 20.c4 Qxc4 21.Qa3 Qa6 22.Rac1 Rc8 23.Nd2
f6 24.exf6 gxf6 25.Qf3 Kd7 26.Qxf6 Rhe8 27.Ne4 Ne7 28.Nc5+
Rxc5 29.Bxc5 Nc4 30.Bxe7 1-0

[Event "Tal - Gligoric Candidates Quarterfinal"]
[Site "Belgrade YUG"]
[Date "1968.05.14"]
[EventDate "1968.04.22"]
[Round "9"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Svetozar Gligoric"]
[ECO "C93"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "125"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3
d6 8.c3 O-O 9.h3 h6 10.d4 Re8 11.Nbd2 Bf8 12.Nf1 Bb7 13.Ng3
Na5 14.Bc2 Nc4 15.Bd3 Nb6 16.Bd2 c5 17.d5 Bc8 18.Nh2 Na4
19.Rb1 Bd7 20.b3 Nb6 21.c4 Rb8 22.f4 bxc4 23.bxc4 Na4 24.Qc2
exf4 25.Bxf4 Rb4 26.Bd2 Qc7 27.Bxb4 cxb4 28.Rf1 Be7 29.Kh1 a5
30.Qd2 Nc5 31.Bc2 Bd8 32.Rbe1 Bc8 33.Nf3 Nfd7 34.e5 Nxe5
35.Qf4 Re7 36.Nd4 Ned3 37.Bxd3 Nxd3 38.Rxe7 Qxe7 39.Qe4 Ne5
40.Nc6 Nxc6 41.dxc6 Qe5 42.Qxe5 dxe5 43.Rd1 Bc7 44.Ne4 Kf8
45.Nd6 Bxd6 46.Rxd6 Ke7 47.Rd5 a4 48.c7 b3 49.axb3 axb3
50.Rxe5+ Kd6 51.Rb5 Kxc7 52.Rxb3 Kc6 53.c5 Be6 54.Rc3 Bd5
55.Kg1 f5 56.Ra3 Kb7 57.Rg3 g5 58.Re3 Kc6 59.Re7 Kxc5 60.Rh7
g4 61.hxg4 fxg4 62.Rxh6 Bb7 63.Rg6 1-0

[Event "Riga"]
[Site "04"]
[Date "1968.12.14"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "4"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Aarne Hermlin"]
[Black "Mikhail Tal"]
[ECO "A43"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "50"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 c5 3.d5 g6 4.Nc3 Bg7 5.e4 d6 6.Bb5+ Nbd7 7.a4
O-O 8.O-O a6 9.Be2 Qc7 10.h3 b6 11.Bf4 Bb7 12.Nd2 e5 13.dxe6
fxe6 14.Nc4 Nxe4 15.Bxd6 Nxd6 16.Nxd6 Bc6 17.Bc4 Bd4 18.Bxe6+
Kg7 19.Nde4 Rad8 20.Bxd7 Rxd7 21.Qe2 Re7 22.Qd3 Qf4 23.Rae1
Rfe8 24.Qf3 g5 25.Ne2 Bxe4 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship 1968/69"]
[Site "Alma Ata (RUS)"]
[Date "1968.??.??"]
[EventDate "1968.??.??"]
[Round "12"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Bukhuti Gurgenidze"]
[ECO "B15"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "67"]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 b5 4.a3 dxe4 5.Nxe4 Bf5 6.Bd3 Bxe4
7.Bxe4 Nf6 8.Bd3 e6 9.Nf3 Be7 10.Qe2 Nbd7 11.O-O O-O 12.Re1
Re8 13.Ne5 Nxe5 14.dxe5 Nd5 15.Qg4 a5 16.h4 Bxh4 17.g3 Be7
18.Kg2 g6 19.Rh1 Bf8 20.Bg5 Qc7 21.Rxh7 Qxe5 22.Rxf7 Kxf7
23.Bxg6+ Kg8 24.Bxe8 Bg7 25.Bd7 Nc7 26.Bxc6 Rf8 27.Rd1 Qc5
28.Bf3 Qxc2 29.Rd7 Rf7 30.Rd8+ Rf8 31.Bf6 Qh7 32.Be4 Qh6
33.Bg5 Qh8 34.Rd7 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1969.10.01"]
[EventDate "1969.??.??"]
[Round "17"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Alexander Zaitsev"]
[ECO "C09"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "41"]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 c5 4.Ngf3 Nc6 5.exd5 exd5 6.Bb5 Qe7+
7.Be2 Qc7 8.O-O cxd4 9.Nb3 Bd6 10.Nbxd4 a6 11.c4 Nf6 12.Bg5
Ne4 13.cxd5 Nxd4 14.Qxd4 Nxg5 15.Qxg7 Nxf3+ 16.Bxf3 Rf8
17.Rac1 Bxh2+ 18.Kh1 Qd6 19.g3 Bxg3 20.fxg3 Bf5 21.Rfe1+ 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1969.09.30"]
[EventDate "1969.??.??"]
[Round "16"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Vladimir Borisovich Tukmakov"]
[Black "Mikhail Tal"]
[ECO "A77"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "56"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3 exd5 5.cxd5 d6 6.e4 g6 7.Nf3
Bg7 8.Be2 O-O 9.O-O Re8 10.Nd2 Nbd7 11.f3 a6 12.a4 Qc7 13.Qb3
Ne5 14.a5 Rb8 15.Nd1 Nh5 16.Nc4 f5 17.exf5 Bxf5 18.g4 Nxc4
19.Bxc4 b5 20.axb6 Rxb6 21.Qa2 Bd4+ 22.Kg2 Qg7 23.Nc3 Bd7
24.Bd2 Reb8 25.Rab1 Nf6 26.Rfe1 Qf7 27.b3 Nxg4 28.Ne4 Ne5 0-1

[Event "USSR vs. Rest of the World"]
[Site "Belgrade SRB"]
[Date "1970.04.02"]
[EventDate "1970.03.29"]
[Round "3.9"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Miguel Najdorf"]
[ECO "B47"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "86"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.g3 a6 7.Bg2
Nf6 8.O-O d6 9.Re1 Bd7 10.Nxc6 bxc6 11.Na4 e5 12.c4 Be7 13.c5
O-O 14.cxd6 Bxd6 15.Bg5 Be7 16.Qc2 h6 17.Be3 Rab8 18.Rac1 Rfd8
19.h3 Nh7 20.Bc5 Be8 21.Red1 Rxd1+ 22.Rxd1 Ng5 23.Bxe7 Qxe7
24.Nc5 Ne6 25.Nxe6 Qxe6 26.b3 Qe7 27.Qc3 Rb4 28.h4 f6 29.Rd3
Kh7 30.Bh3 Bg6 31.Rd7 Qf8 32.Qxc6 Rxe4 33.Qxa6 Re1+ 34.Kh2 f5
35.Rd6 Bh5 36.Qd3 e4 37.Qd5 Bg4 38.Rd8 Qf6 39.Qg8+ Kg6 40.Qe8+
Kh7 41.Bxg4 fxg4 42.Qg8+ Kg6 43.Rf8 Qe7 1-0

[Event "Kapfenberg 10/205"]
[Site "Kapfenberg 10/205"]
[Date "1970.05.12"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "3"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Atanas Stefanov Kolarov"]
[ECO "B15"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "69"]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 g6 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.h3 dxe4 6.Nxe4 Nd7 7.Bc4
Ngf6 8.Nxf6+ Nxf6 9.O-O O-O 10.Re1 Bf5 11.Ne5 Be4 12.Bg5 Bd5
13.Bd3 Be6 14.c3 Nd7 15.Nf3 Re8 16.Rxe6 fxe6 17.Qe2 e5 18.Bc4+
Kh8 19.dxe5 Qc7 20.Bf7 Rf8 21.e6 Nf6 22.Qc4 Qa5 23.Re1 Qd5
24.Qh4 Rxf7 25.Ne5 Nh5 26.Nxf7+ Kg8 27.Bxe7 Re8 28.Nd6 Bf6
29.Bxf6 Qxd6 30.Bg5 Rxe6 31.Qc4 Ng7 32.Qb3 Kf8 33.Rd1 Qe5
34.Bh6 Rd6 35.Rxd6 1-0

[Event "Dniepropetrovsk"]
[Site "Dniepropetrovsk"]
[Date "1970.08.08"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Vladimir Bagirov"]
[ECO "B14"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "81"]

1.c4 c6 2.e4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.d4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e6 6.Nf3 Be7 7.cxd5
Nxd5 8.Bd3 Nc6 9.O-O O-O 10.a3 Nxc3 11.bxc3 Bf6 12.Qe2 Bd7
13.Rb1 b6 14.Re1 Re8 15.h4 e5 16.Ng5 exd4 17.Bxh7+ Kf8 18.Be4
Bxg5 19.Bxg5 f6 20.Qh5 Rxe4 21.Rxe4 Kg8 22.Bd2 Be8 23.Qf5 Bf7
24.Rg4 Kh8 25.Re1 Qd6 26.h5 Rd8 27.Rg3 Qd7 28.Qf4 Qd6 29.Qh4
d3 30.Re4 Ne5 31.f4 Nc4 32.Rd4 Qe7 33.Qg4 Rg8 34.Rgxd3 Qxa3
35.Be1 Qc1 36.Qe2 f5 37.h6 Re8 38.Rd8 Rxd8 39.Rxd8+ Kh7 40.Rd7
Bg6 41.hxg7 1-0

[Event "Sochi"]
[Site "Sochi"]
[Date "1970.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Boris Gulko"]
[Black "Mikhail Tal"]
[ECO "D87"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "68"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 Bg7
7.Bc4 O-O 8.Ne2 c5 9.O-O Nc6 10.Be3 Qc7 11.Qc1 Bd7 12.Rb1 cxd4
13.cxd4 Rac8 14.Bb5 Qa5 15.Qb2 Rfd8 16.Bd2 Qb6 17.Qa3 Bxd4
18.Bxc6 Bc5 19.Rxb6 Bxa3 20.Bxd7 Rxd7 21.Bb4 axb6 22.Bxa3 Rc4
23.Ng3 Ra4 24.Bc1 Rxa2 25.Be3 Rb2 26.Rc1 b5 27.Kf1 b4 28.Ke1
b3 29.Rc3 h5 30.e5 Rd5 31.Ne4 Rb5 32.e6 Rb1+ 33.Kd2 b2 34.Bd4
Rd1+ 0-1

[Event "Sochi"]
[Site "05"]
[Date "1970.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Vitaly Tseshkovsky"]
[Black "Mikhail Tal"]
[ECO "C90"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "96"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3
O-O 8.d3 d6 9.c3 Na5 10.Bc2 c5 11.Nbd2 Re8 12.Nf1 Bf8 13.Ne3
Bb7 14.b4 cxb4 15.cxb4 Nc6 16.a3 d5 17.Nxd5 Nxd5 18.exd5 Qxd5
19.Bb3 Qd7 20.Ng5 Nd8 21.Qh5 h6 22.Re3 Bd5 23.Bxd5 Qxd5 24.Ne4
Re6 25.Rg3 Kh8 26.Be3 a5 27.Bc5 Bxc5 28.Nxc5 Rf6 29.Rf1 axb4
30.axb4 Rxf2 31.Re1 Rf4 32.h3 Ra1 33.Rxa1 Qd4+ 34.Kh2 Qxa1
35.d4 Nc6 36.Ne6 Rf1 37.Rxg7 Rh1+ 38.Kg3 Qe1+ 39.Kg4 Qe2+
40.Kh4 Qxh5+ 41.Kxh5 Rf1 42.d5 Nd8 43.Kxh6 Nxe6 44.Rh7+ Kg8
45.dxe6 Rf6+ 46.Kg5 Rg6+ 47.Kf5 Kxh7 48.exf7 Kg7 0-1

[Event "Tallinn"]
[Site "10"]
[Date "1971.03.05"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "10"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Robert Wade"]
[ECO "B14"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "81"]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.c4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.cxd5 Bg7 7.Bc4
O-O 8.Nge2 Nbd7 9.Nf4 Nb6 10.Bb3 Qd6 11.O-O Bd7 12.Re1 a5
13.a4 Rfc8 14.h3 h6 15.Re5 Nc4 16.Qe2 Qb4 17.Ba2 Nxe5 18.dxe5
Nh5 19.Nd3 Qh4 20.g4 Qxh3 21.gxh5 Bg4 22.Nf4 Qh4 23.Qe3 g5
24.Nfe2 Qxh5 25.Ng3 Qh3 26.Bb1 Bxe5 27.Bd3 f6 28.Nce2 Rf8
29.Nd4 Bxd4 30.Qxd4 Bf3 31.Bf1 Qd7 32.Qd3 Qxd5 33.Qg6+ Kh8
34.Qxh6+ Kg8 35.Qg6+ Kh8 36.Ra3 g4 37.Qh6+ Kg8 38.Rc3 Qf7
39.Bc4 e6 40.Bxe6 Qxe6 41.Qg6+ 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Leningrad URS"]
[Date "1971.10.11"]
[EventDate "1971.09.15"]
[Round "18"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Efim Geller"]
[Black "Mikhail Tal"]
[ECO "B47"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "116"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be2 Nf6
7.Be3 a6 8.O-O Bb4 9.Na4 O-O 10.Nxc6 bxc6 11.Nb6 Rb8 12.Nxc8
Rfxc8 13.Bxa6 Re8 14.Bd3 Bd6 15.g4 h6 16.Kh1 Be5 17.Rb1 Bxb2
18.Rg1 Be5 19.Rxb8 Rxb8 20.h4 Bh2 21.Rg2 Bf4 22.g5 hxg5
23.hxg5 Nh7 24.Qc1 Bxe3 25.Qxe3 Rb1+ 26.Rg1 Rxg1+ 27.Kxg1 Qa5
28.e5 Qxa2 29.f4 Nf8 30.Kf2 Qa1 31.Qc5 Qc1 32.Qd4 Qd2+ 33.Kg1
Ng6 34.Qxd7 Qc1+ 35.Kg2 Qxf4 36.Qe8+ Kh7 37.Qxc6 Qxg5+ 38.Kf1
Qf4+ 39.Kg1 Qxe5 40.Bxg6+ Kxg6 41.c4 Qd4+ 42.Kf1 Qd1+ 43.Kf2
Kf6 44.c5 g5 45.Qc8 Qd2+ 46.Kf1 Qd3+ 47.Kf2 g4 48.c6 Qf3+
49.Kg1 Qe3+ 50.Kg2 Qe2+ 51.Kg1 g3 52.Qh8+ Ke7 53.Qh4+ Kd6
54.Qd8+ Kxc6 55.Qc8+ Kd5 56.Qd8+ Ke4 57.Qh4+ Kf5 58.Qh7+ Ke5
0-1

[Event "Moscow"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1971.11.30"]
[EventDate "1971.11.24"]
[Round "6"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Wolfgang Uhlmann"]
[ECO "C07"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "37"]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 c5 4.Ngf3 Nc6 5.Bb5 dxe4 6.Nxe4 Bd7
7.Bg5 Qa5+ 8.Nc3 cxd4 9.Nxd4 Bb4 10.O-O Bxc3 11.bxc3 Qxc3
12.Nf5 exf5 13.Re1+ Be6 14.Qd6 a6 15.Bd2 Qxc2 16.Bb4 axb5
17.Qf8+ Kd7 18.Red1+ Kc7 19.Qxa8 1-0

[Event "Moscow"]
[Site "Moscow"]
[Date "1972.03.08"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "5"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Evgeny Mukhin"]
[Black "Mikhail Tal"]
[ECO "E46"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "58"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 O-O 5.Ne2 d5 6.a3 Be7 7.Nf4 c6
8.Bd3 dxc4 9.Bxc4 Nbd7 10.Nd3 c5 11.dxc5 Nxc5 12.Nxc5 Bxc5
13.Qxd8 Rxd8 14.b4 Be7 15.Bb2 Bd7 16.Ke2 Rac8 17.Bd3 Bc6 18.f3
Nd7 19.Ne4 f5 20.Nd2 Nb6 21.Bd4 e5 22.Bc5 Rxd3 23.Kxd3 Bb5+
24.Kc2 Na4 25.Kb3 b6 26.Nc4 bxc5 27.Nxe5 cxb4 28.Rac1 Nc5+
29.Kxb4 a6 0-1

[Event "Skopje olm 14/438"]
[Site "Skopje olm 14/438"]
[Date "1972.09.20"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Ole Jakobsen"]
[ECO "B53"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "88"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Qxd4 Bd7 5.c4 Nc6 6.Qd2 Nf6 7.Nc3
g6 8.b3 Bg7 9.Bb2 O-O 10.Be2 Qa5 11.Rb1 a6 12.a3 Rfc8 13.O-O
Bg4 14.Rfe1 Bxf3 15.Bxf3 Rab8 16.Be2 Ne5 17.f4 Qb6+ 18.Kh1
Neg4 19.Bxg4 Nxg4 20.h3 Nf6 21.Nd5 Nxd5 22.exd5 Bxb2 23.Rxb2
Qc7 24.f5 b5 25.fxg6 hxg6 26.Qg5 bxc4 27.Rxe7 Qc5 28.Qf6 Qxd5
29.bxc4 Qxc4 30.Rf2 Rf8 31.Rf4 Qc1+ 32.Kh2 Qb2 33.Rxf7 Qxf6
34.R7xf6 Rxf6 35.Rxf6 Kg7 36.Rxd6 a5 37.Rd5 Ra8 38.a4 Ra6
39.Kg3 Kf6 40.Kf4 Ke6 41.Rb5 Kf6 42.Rc5 Rb6 43.Rxa5 Rb4+
44.Kg3 Rb3+ 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Baku AZE"]
[Date "1972.11.27"]
[EventDate "1972.11.17"]
[Round "8"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Valery I Zilberstein"]
[ECO "B06"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "45"]

1. e4 g6 2. d4 c6 3. c4 d5 4. e5 Bg7 5. Nc3 Nh6 6. h4 Be6
7. Nh3 dxc4 8. Nf4 Bd5 9. b3 cxb3 10. axb3 e6 11. Bd3 Nf5
12. Bxf5 exf5 13. Ba3 Bf8 14. Bxf8 Kxf8 15. Qd2 Be6 16. Rd1
Qe7 17. Rh3 Na6 18. d5 cxd5 19. Nfxd5 Bxd5 20. Nxd5 Qxe5+
21. Re3 Qd6 22. Qc3 f6 23. Nc7 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Baku AZE"]
[Date "1972.12.11"]
[EventDate "1972.11.17"]
[Round "16"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Leonid Alexandrovich Shamkovich"]
[ECO "B17"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "57"]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nd7 5.Nf3 Ngf6 6.Nc3 e6
7.Bd3 c5 8.Qe2 cxd4 9.Nxd4 Bc5 10.Nb3 Bd6 11.Bg5 a6 12.O-O-O
Qc7 13.Kb1 O-O 14.Ne4 Be5 15.f4 Bxf4 16.Nxf6+ Nxf6 17.Bxf6
gxf6 18.Qg4+ Kh8 19.Rhf1 Be5 20.Bxh7 f5 21.Qh4 Kg7 22.Rf3 Re8
23.g4 f4 24.g5 Kf8 25.Rxf4 Bxf4 26.Qh6+ Ke7 27.Qf6+ Kf8 28.g6
Bh6 29.Rf1 1-0

[Event "Tallinn"]
[Site "Tallinn EST"]
[Date "1973.02.28"]
[EventDate "1973.02.20"]
[Round "7"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Heikki Westerinen"]
[Black "Mikhail Tal"]
[ECO "B40"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "48"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.b3 Nf6 4.e5 Nd5 5.Bb2 Be7 6.c4 Nc7 7.Nc3 f6
8.Ne4 fxe5 9.Nxe5 O-O 10.d4 cxd4 11.Qxd4 Bb4+ 12.Kd1 d6 13.Nd3
e5 14.Qe3 Ba5 15.Qg5 Qd7 16.Kc2 Qc6 17.f3 Bf5 18.Ng3 Bg6
19.Rc1 Nba6 20.Ba3 Nb5 21.Kb2 Nxa3 22.Qe3 Nb4 23.Kxa3 Bxd3
24.Bxd3 Qa6 0-1

[Event "Tallinn"]
[Site "Tallinn EST"]
[Date "1973.03.10"]
[EventDate "1973.02.20"]
[Round "13"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Boris Spassky"]
[Black "Mikhail Tal"]
[ECO "E30"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "76"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Bg5 h6 5. Bh4 c5 6. d5 b5
7. dxe6 fxe6 8. cxb5 d5 9. e3 O-O 10. Nf3 Qa5 11. Bxf6 Rxf6
12. Qd2 a6 13. bxa6 Nc6 14. Be2 d4 15. exd4 Rxf3 16. Bxf3 cxd4
17. O-O dxc3 18. bxc3 Bxc3 19. Qd6 Rxa6 20. Bxc6 Bb4 21. Qb8
Rxc6 22. Rac1 Bc5 23. Rc2 Qa4 24. Qb3 Qf4 25. Qg3 Qf5 26. Rfc1
Bb7 27. Qf3 Qg5 28. Qb3 Rc7 29. g3 Bxf2+ 30. Kxf2 Qf6+ 31. Ke1
Qe5+ 32. Kf1 Ba6+ 33. Kg1 Qd4+ 34. Kg2 Qe4+ 35. Kg1 Bb7 36. h4
Qh1+ 37. Kf2 Rf7+ 38. Ke2 Qe4+ 0-1

[Event "Leningrad Interzonal"]
[Site "Leningrad URS"]
[Date "1973.06.19"]
[EventDate "1973.06.03"]
[Round "12"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Bent Larsen"]
[Black "Mikhail Tal"]
[ECO "A37"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "70"]

1.c4 g6 2.Nc3 Bg7 3.Nf3 c5 4.g3 Nc6 5.Bg2 e6 6.O-O Nge7 7.d3
O-O 8.Bd2 d5 9.Qc1 b6 10.Bh6 Bb7 11.Bxg7 Kxg7 12.cxd5 Nxd5
13.h4 Nd4 14.Re1 h6 15.Ne5 Nxc3 16.Qxc3 Bxg2 17.Kxg2 Qd5+
18.Nf3 Rad8 19.Kg1 e5 20.Nxd4 exd4 21.Qc4 Qh5 22.Qa4 Rfe8
23.Qxa7 Rd6 24.b4 Rf6 25.bxc5 Qf5 26.f3 Qh3 27.Qc7 Rf5 28.cxb6
Rfe5 29.e4 Qxg3+ 30.Kh1 Qxh4+ 31.Kg2 Rg5+ 32.Kf1 Qh3+ 33.Ke2
Rg2+ 34.Kd1 Qxf3+ 35.Kc1 Qf2 0-1

[Event "Leningrad Interzonal"]
[Site "Leningrad URS"]
[Date "1973.06.23"]
[EventDate "1973.06.03"]
[Round "15"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Svetozar Gligoric"]
[ECO "C95"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "84"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3
d6 8.c3 O-O 9.h3 Nb8 10.d4 Nbd7 11.Nbd2 Bb7 12.Bc2 c5 13.Nf1
Re8 14.Ng3 Bf8 15.d5 g6 16.b3 Nb6 17.Be3 Bc8 18.a4 bxa4
19.bxa4 Nc4 20.Bg5 Bg7 21.Qe2 Na5 22.Qd2 Rb8 23.Reb1 Rxb1+
24.Rxb1 Bd7 25.c4 Nxc4 26.Qd3 Na5 27.Qxa6 Bc8 28.Qa7 Re7
29.Qa8 Qc7 30.Nd2 c4 31.Be3 Nd7 32.Rb5 Nb7 33.a5 c3 34.Nb3 Re8
35.a6 Nbc5 36.a7 Nb7 37.Ne2 Rf8 38.Nec1 f5 39.f3 Bf6 40.exf5
Kg7 41.fxg6 hxg6 42.Nd3 Bh4 1-0

[Event "Nice olm prelim1"]
[Site "FRA"]
[Date "1974.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "7"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Lhamsuren Myagmarsuren"]
[ECO "A13"]
[WhiteElo "2635"]
[BlackElo "2375"]
[PlyCount "69"]

1.c4 e6 2.Nc3 Bb4 3.Nf3 d5 4.d4 Ne7 5.e3 c5 6.Bd3 Nbc6 7.O-O
dxc4 8. Bxc4 O-O 9.a3 cxd4 10.exd4 Bxc3 11.bxc3 b6 12.Qd3 Bb7
13.Re1 h6 14.Ba2 Re8 15.Rxe6 fxe6 16.Bxe6+ Kf8 17.Nh4 Ne5
18.Qh7 N7c6 19.Qg8+ Ke7 20.Nf5+ Kf6 21.dxe5+ Nxe5 22.Qxg7+
Kxe6 23.Nd4+ Kd6 24.Bf4 Bd5 25.Re1 Kc5 26.Rxe5 Rxe5 27.Qxe5
Qd7 28.Nc2 Re8 29.Qd4+ Kc6 30.c4 Be6 31.Qe4+ Kc5 32.h3 Bf5
33.Be3+ Kd6 34.Qf4+ Ke7 35.Nd4 1-0

[Event "Halle"]
[Site "Halle"]
[Date "1974.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Rainer F A Knaak"]
[ECO "C72"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "47"]

1.e4 Nc6 2.Nf3 e5 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 d6 5.O-O Bd7 6.d4 Nf6 7.Bxc6
Bxc6 8.Re1 Be7 9.Nc3 exd4 10.Nxd4 Bd7 11.Qf3 Bg4 12.Qg3 Qd7
13.h3 Bh5 14.Nf5 O-O-O 15.Bg5 Ng8 16.Bxe7 Nxe7 17.Qg5 Nxf5
18.exf5 g6 19.g4 Qc6 20.f6 d5 21.Re7 h6 22.Qe5 d4 23.Ne2 Rd5
24.Nxd4 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Leningrad URS"]
[Date "1974.12.05"]
[EventDate "1974.11.30"]
[Round "5"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Tal"]
[Black "Mark Izrailovich Dvoretsky"]
[ECO "E92"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "73"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Be2 O-O 6.Nf3 e5 7.Be3 c6
8.O-O exd4 9.Bxd4 Re8 10.Qc2 Nbd7 11.Rad1 Qe7 12.Rfe1 Ne5
13.h3 Bh6 14.b4 b6 15.c5 bxc5 16.Nxe5 dxe5 17.Bxc5 Qb7 18.Na4
Be6 19.Bd6 Nd7 20.Nc5 Nxc5 21.bxc5 Bf8 22.Rb1 Qd7 23.Red1 Bxd6
24.cxd6 Rab8 25.a4 Rxb1 26.Qxb1 Qd8 27.Qc2 Qd7 28.Qc5 f6 29.a5
Kg7 30.Rb1 Rd8 31.a6 Kh6 32.Qe3+ g5 33.Qf3 Qf7 34.Rb7 Rd7
35.Bc4 f5 36.exf5 Qxf5 37.Bxe6 1-0

[Event "Moscow"]
[Site "Moscow"]
[Date "1975.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Hans Bohm"]
[Black "Mikhail Tal"]
[ECO "A56"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "70"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 g6 4.Nc3 Bg7 5.e4 O-O 6.Bd3 e6 7.h3 exd5
8.exd5 Re8+ 9.Be3 Nh5 10.Nge2 d6 11.g4 Qh4 12.Kd2 Nf6 13.Qg1
Nfd7 14.f4 Qd8 15.g5 b5 16.Nxb5 Bxb2 17.Rb1 Bg7 18.Nxd6 Qa5+
19.Kd1 Rd8 20.Bd2 Qa3 21.Qe3 Nb6 22.Nb5 Qa4+ 23.Rb3 Nxc4
24.Bxc4 Qxc4 25.Nc7 Na6 26.Nxa8 Qxd5 27.Re1 Qxa8 28.Kc1 Be6
29.Ra3 Nb4 30.Bxb4 cxb4 31.Rd3 Qc8+ 32.Kd1 b3 33.Rxd8+ Qxd8+
34.Qd2 Qc7 35.Nc1 b2 0-1

