Mikhail Tal's Best Games of Chess

by P.H. Clarke

Mikhail Tal took the chess world by storm when he blasted a path through the titans of the global chess board - Fischer, Smyslov, Keres, Petrosian - and seized the crown of the mighty Botvinnik. Tal sacrificed as if there were no tomorrow and the very greatest were humbled and smashed by his whirlwind tactics.

Genres: Chess, Games

208 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1961

Reviews

[Piet]

It's amazing what computer analysis shows. This book was written before that time and Stockfish found at least ten gross mistakes made by the annotator.
Although you cannot always blame him for this, there were situations that felt a bit embarrassing.
Luckily this does not deprive us of the pleasure Tal's audacious, and far sighted sacrifices often provides.
The pleasure Tal himself derived from the game of chess is visible in almost everyone of the games shown.

[TrumanCoyote]

P H unfortunately comes off as rather a pompous type (an unheralded thing in a chess annotator!)--and this tends to detract from the proceedings.