When Mikhail Botvinnik lost the world championship in 1960 to the dazzling attacking player from Riga, Mikhail Tal, there seemed little chance of him regaining his title. Yet in the Return Match a year later, with a surprising demonstration of aggressive chess, Botvinnik completely outplayed his you[...]

In this book Grandmaster Joe Gallagher takes a fresh look at Tal's games and career, focusing on the previously neglected period from 1975 to 1992 during which he played some of his most accomplished chess. Despite periodic bouts of ill-health Tal occupied a place in the world's top ten for most of [...]

Mikhail Tal (1936—92), vosmoj chempion mira po shakhmatam.Nevysokij, khrupkij junosha s bolshimi chernymi glazami, fenomenalnoj pamjatju i unikalnoj intuitsiej dokazal shakhmatnomu miru, chto 2kh2=5(!). Genij atak i kombinatsij, on vsegda dejstvoval soglasno postulatu S. Tartakovera - «zhertvu[...]

This tactics training book gives you the opportunity to get in the shoes of the most famous attacking player of all time. It offers one hundred training exercises in positions the former World Champion turned in his favour. Can you be as imaginative as Mikhail Tal was? Mikhail Tal (1936-1992) was th[...]