See What Happened When Benko Won Tal’s Poisoned Pawn

November 8, 2019 NHaselton Chess Lectures

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The 8th World Chess Champion GM Mikhail Tal crushes American GM Pal Benko in 21 moves after the latter grabs a poisoned pawn! In this video I am covering that game! In the end of the video as usual you can solve the daily puzzle!
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Mikhail Tal vs Pal Benko
Amsterdam Interzonal (1964), Amsterdam NED, rd 11, Jun-02
Caro-Kann Defense: Karpov. Smyslov Variation Main Line (B17)
1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nd7 5.Bc4 Ngf6 6.Ng5 e6
7.Qe2 Nb6 8.Bb3 h6 9.N5f3 Be7 10.Nh3 c5 11.Be3 Nbd5 12.O-O-O
Nxe3 13.fxe3 Qc7 14.Ne5 a6 15.g4 Bd6 16.g5 hxg5 17.Nxg5 Bxe5
18.dxe5 Qxe5 19.Rd8+ Ke7 20.Rxh8 Qxg5 21.Qd2
1-0
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