Tal: Tal-Botvinik 1960 Taktik Everyone knows they should work

Everyone knows they should work on their endgame play

and many a Topalov fan is close to having a heart attack when Anand once again turns the wheel around at the last second

the wealth of ideas and also the beauty of chess

In the foreword to his book

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Tal: Tal-Botvinik 1960 Taktik Everyone knows they should workMikhail Tal's splendid account of his world championship match victory is one of the masterpieces of the golden age of annotation before insights and feelings and flashes of genius were reduced to mere moves and informant symbols. This is simply the best book written about a world championship match by a contestant. That shouldn't be a surprise because Tal was the finest writer to become world champion. From the Foreword by International Grandmaster