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On that day, however, they met me with the tragic news of Mikhail Tal's death in a Moscow hospital on June 28. www.chessbase.com/columns/column.asp?pid=134
Mikhail Nekhemevich Tal was born on 9 November 1936 in Riga, Latvia and started playing chess at 8. Tal joined the Riga Palace of Young Pioneers chess club and started to play in tournaments. By the time he was 16 he had become a national master. In 19 www.biogs.com/famous/tal.html
He qualified for the Championship of the USSR in 1956, finishing joint fifth, and became the youngest player to win it the following year, at the age of twenty. He had not played in enough international tournaments to qualify for the title of grandmaster listing-index.ebay.com/games/Mikhail_Tal.html
Known as the "Magician from Riga", Tal excelled in tactical attacks. He often gave up material in exchange for the initiative -in chess defined as the ability to make threats to which the opponent must respond. ... Of the current top-level players, th www.centipedia.com/articles/Mikhail_Tal
Mikhail Tal , the "Magician from Riga", was the greatest attacking World Champion of them all, and this enchanting autobiography chronicles his extraordinary career with charm and humor. Dazzling games are interspersed throughout with anecdotes and witty www.chesscentral.com/The-Life-and-Games-of-Mikhail-Tal-p/...
