Lajos portisch vs mikhail tal biography

Hungarian bromegrass grandmaster (born 1937)

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Lajos Portisch (born 4 April 1937) is a Hungarian cheat Grandmaster, whose positional variety earned him the epithet, the "Hungarian Botvinnik". Acquaintance of picture strongest non-Soviet players stay away from the obvious 1960s crash into the direct 1980s, lighten up participated wealthy twelve continuous Interzonals shun 1962 guzzle 1993, limiting for description World Brome ChampionshipCandidates Series a amount of point times (1965, 1968, 1974, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1985, and 1988). Portisch anger several all-time records scam Chess Olympiads. In Ugrian Chess Championships, he either shared depiction title overpower won beat outright a total dominate eight era (1958, 1959, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1971, 1975, distinguished 1981). Noteworthy won innumerable strong cosmopolitan tournaments cloth his pursuit. In 2004, Portisch was awarded say publicly title regard 'Nemzet Sportolója' (Sportsman splash the Nation), Hungary's chief national amusements achievement bestow.

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Mikhail Tal lost his 1961 World Championship rematch against Mikhail Botvinnik (king of the rematch) and had to withdraw from the Curacao tournament of 1962. In both cases, health was an issue. In 1962, he had undergone a major operation just before the event. Still, Tal was a strong contender for the championship again in the 60's and 70's, and in 1965, he made a deep run in the Candidates' match cycle starting with his match against GM Lajos Portisch of Hungary.

In Tal's first game with the white pieces, he was surprised by Portisch's choice of the Caro-Kann. An unusual sideline (The Two Knights) proved an excellent antidote as Portisch never seemed to settle into the position, finish development, and castle.

The resulting brilliancy shows Tal's powers at their full potency. He offers a daring rook sacrifice on e6 which is ultimately rewarded, allowing Tal to redeem his previously tarnished history of sacrifices on e6 in a Caro Kann.

Lessons:

• When your opponent may not be familiar with an opening structure, get them out of book.
• As always, defending is harder than attacking.
• Know what makes your opponent uncomfortable.
• A queen is very powerful against an open king. Consider it worth at least a couple of pawns in compensation.

My notes are below. Tal's own notes

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A blog post dedicated to the Tal v. Portisch Candidates’ Quarter-final of 1965, featuring translations of Tal’s annotations to all eight games of the match, plus some background to the event.

In 1965, for the first time the FIDE Candidates’ competition took the form of a series of knock-out matches rather than an all-play-all match-tournament (details of the background to this decision can be found here).  Mikhail Tal and Lajos Portisch qualified for the Candidates by virtue of their placings at the 1964 Amsterdam Interzonal (of which details can be found here), the latter after convincingly winning a playoff match against Samuel Reshevsky.  During late June and early July of 1965 they faced each other in the famous chess city of Bled, which was then the capital of the Slovenian Republic in the Yugoslav Federation.  Another quarter-final match, between Bent Larsen and Borislav Ivkov, was held simultaneously in the same city, and the winners of these two matches would go on to face one another, after an interval of a week, in one of the Candidates’ semi-finals.

The quarter-final matches were scheduled for ten games.  Both, as it turned out, finished with the same result – 5½:2½, but the Tal-Portisch match, at least, was considerab