Mikhail Tal Vs Bobby Fischer - Tal TROLLS Fischer on the 1st move - The Legendary Attack of the Bobby
After the greatest catastrophe in human history, World War II, two superpowers emerged on the scene: the United States and the Soviet Union. Their confrontation went down in history as the Cold War and reached its peak by 1962, when the world was one step away from nuclear war because of the Caribbean crisis. One element of the confrontation between the two nations was also the chessboard. In 1959 there was a candidates' tournament in which the spotlight was on two prodigies. Twenty-two-year-old Mikhail Tal of the USSR and sixteen-year-old Bobby Fischer of the United States, the world's youngest grandmaster. And now we will see how, in this oppressive atmosphere of confrontation between the two countries, Mikhail Tal decided to pull a stunt on the young Bobby Fischer right on the first move.
Greetings, dear chess fans and experts! This is FIDE Master Max Omariev with you. And in this difficult time nothing is better than to return to the lessons of the past. The Candidates Tournament of 1959 took place under the dictation of Soviet chess players and in the end they took the first four places. The winner of that tournament was Mikhail Tal. But Bobby Fischer didn't come there to train - he really wanted to win. Eyewitnesses said that during the tournament he lived with and for chess - nothing else existed for him. Sometimes at night he would wake up his second, Larson, for chess games analyses. And his only entertainment was reading Tarzan and listening to jazz on the radio. As we can see, Fischer loved good music, but his focus was precisely on winning the tournament. Still, the Soviets showed him that he was not yet ready for such a war.
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