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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Mikhail Tal vs Garry Kasparov
Friendly Blitz Match, Tbilisi (1978), Game 5
E92 King’s Indian Defense: Orthodox Variation
1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. c4 Bg7 4. Nc3 O-O 5. e4 d6 6. Be2 e5 7. Bg5 h6 8. Bh4
Nc6 9. dxe5 dxe5 10. Qxd8 Nxd8 11. Bxf6 Bxf6 12. Nd5 Kg7 13. Nxc7 Rb8 14. Nd5
Ne6 15. O-O-O Nc5 16. Nxf6 Kxf6 17. Nxe5 Nxe4 18. Nd7+ Bxd7 19. Rxd7 Rfd8 20.
Rxd8 Rxd8 21. f3 Nc5 22. Rd1 Rxd1+ 23. Kxd1 Ke5 24. Kd2 Kd4 25. b4 Na4 26. Bd1
Nb2 27. c5 Nc4+ 28. Ke2 a6 29. Bb3 Kc3 30. Bxc4 Kxc4 31. Ke3 Kxb4 32. Kd4 Ka3
33. c6 bxc6 34. Kc5 Kxa2 35. Kxc6 Kb3 36. Kb6 Kc4 37. Kxa6 Kd3 38. Kb6 Ke3 39.
Kc6 Kf2 40. Kd6 Kxg2 41. Ke7 f5 42. Kf6 Kxf3 43. Kxg6 Ke4 44. Kxh6 f4
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