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 8
B85 Sicilian Defense: Scheveningen Variation, Classical Main Line
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nc3 d6 6. Be2 Nf6 7. O-O Be7 8.Be3 O-O 9. f4 a6 10. Qe1 Qc7 11. Qg3 Nxd4 12. Bxd4 b5 13. a3 Bb7 14. Bd3 e5 15.fxe5 Nh5 16. Qh3 dxe5 17. Qxh5 exd4 18. Nd5 Bxd5 19. exd5 g6 20. Qg4 Bd6 21. h4 Rae8 22. Rf3 Re5 23. a4 Rxd5 24. axb5 axb5 25. Raf1 Qe7 26. Qe4 Re5 27. Qc6 Re6 28. Qxb5 Qxh4 29. Rh3 Qe7 30. Qd5 Re3 31. Rhf3 Re5 32. Qb3 Rh5 33. Rxf7 Bh2+ 34. Kh1 Bg3+ 35. Kg1 Rh1+ 36. Kxh1 Qh4+ 37. Kg1 Qh2#
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