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 12
C80 Ruy Lopez: Open, Main Line
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Nxe4 6. d4 b5 7. Bb3 d5 8. dxe5 Be6 9. c3 Nc5 10. Nbd2 d4 11. Ng5 dxc3 12. Nxe6 fxe6 13. bxc3 Nxe5 14. Qh5+ Nf7 15. Bc2 g6 16. Qh3 Qd5 17. Nb3 Ne4 18. Rd1 Qe5 19. Re1 Neg5 20. Bxg5 Nxg5 21.Rxe5 Nxh3+ 22. gxh3
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