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 6
E92 King’s Indian Defense: Orthodox Variation
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 c5 4. exd5 exd5 5. Bb5+ Bd7 6. Qe2+ Be7 7. dxc5 Nf6 8.Nb3 O-O 9. Be3 Re8 10. Nf3 a6 11. Bd3 Ba4 12. Nfd4 Nbd7 13. O-O Nxc5 14. Nxc5 Bxc5 15. Qf3 Ne4 16. Rad1 Bxd4 17. Bxd4 Qg5 18. Rfe1 Rac8 19. b3 Bc6 20. Qe3 Qxe3 21. Rxe3 f6 22. f3 Nd6 23. Rxe8+ Rxe8 24. Kf2 Kf7 25. a4 g6 26. g4 Re6 27.h4 Ne8 28. h5 Ng7 29. hxg6+ hxg6 30. Rh1 b5 31. axb5 Bxb5 32. Bxb5 axb5 33. Ra1 Rc6 34. c3 Ne6 35. Ke3 f5 36. gxf5 gxf5 37. Ra5 Nc7 38. Kf4 Ke6 39. b4 Rc4 40.Kg5 Rc6 41. Ra1 Ne8 42. Re1+ Kf7 43. Re5 Ng7 44. Rxd5 Rg6+ 45. Kf4 Ne6+ 46.Kxf5 Rg5+ 47. Ke4 Rg2 48. Rxb5
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