In the last round of 1978 USSR Championship 15-year-old Garry Kasparov who was competing at that strong event for the first time faced the 8th World Chess Champion Mikhail Tal. The Exchange variation of Ruy Lopez led to quick simplifications and on move 17 having a completely equal position on the board the players agreed to a draw . Thus Mikhail Tal secured himself the first place while Kasparov landed in the 9th place! After shaking hands they moved to press center and asked for a chess clock. A blitz match of 14 games would soon start driving the attention of everyone passing nearby. Time passed and those games were considered to be lost until in 2019 Alexander Nikitin published them in his book Coaching Kasparov, Year by Year and Move by Move. It turns out that when they returned to their hotel room Nikitin gave Kasparov an exercise book and the future world chess champion wrote down the annotations of all those 14 games without looking at the board. I bought that book and now we can enjoy those games together.
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Garry Kasparov vs Mikhail Tal
Friendly Blitz Match, Tbilisi (1978), Game 2
B63 Sicilian Defense: Richter-Rauzer Variation, Traditional Variation
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. Bg5 e6 7. Qd2 a6 8.
O-O-O Bd7 9. f4 b5 10. Bxf6 gxf6 11. Nxc6 Bxc6 12. Qe1 Be7 13. Bd3 Qb6 14. Kb1 O-O-O 15. Rf1 Bb7 16. f5 Kb8 17. Qg3 Qc5 18. fxe6 fxe6 19. Ne2 Qe5 20. Nf4 Rde8 21. Rde1 Reg8 22. Qh3 Bc8 23. Qe3 Qc5 24. Qe2 Rg5 25. c3 Re5 26. Bc2 Qc4 27.Nd3 Rg5 28. Bb3 Qc6 29. Nf4 Re5 30. Qc2 Qc7 31. g3 Bb7 32. Ka1 f5 33. exf5 exf5 34. Nd3 Be4 35. Rxe4 Rxe4 36. Bd5 Re3 37. Nb4 Ka7 38. a4 Qc5 39. axb5 Bf6 40.Rxf5 Rc8 41. Nc6+ Kb6 42. Bb3 Re1+ 43. Ka2 axb5 44. Rxc5 Ra8+ 45. Ba4 Rxa4+ 46.Kb3 dxc5 47. Qf5 Re2 48. Na5 Rb4+ 49. cxb4 Rxb2+ 50. Ka3 cxb4#
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