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 13
1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bf5 5. Ng3 Bg6 6. h4 h6 7. Nf3 Nd7 8. h5 Bh7 9. Bd3 Bxd3 10. Qxd3 Qc7 11. Bd2 Ngf6 12. O-O-O e6 13. Ne4 O-O-O 14. g3 Nc5 15. Nxc5 Bxc5 16. Bf4 Bd6 17. Bxd6 Rxd6 18. Ne5 Rhd8 19. c3 c5 20. Kb1 Rd5 21.f4 cxd4 22. cxd4 Kb8 23. Rc1 Qe7 24. Rc4 Nd7 25. Rhc1 Nxe5 26. fxe5 a6 27. Qc3 R5d7 28. a4 Ka7 29. a5 Qg5 30. Qb4 Qf5+ 31. Ka2 Qf3 32. Qb6+ Kb8 33. R1c3 Qd5 34. b3 Qb5 35. Rc7 Qxb6 36. axb6 f6 37. exf6 gxf6 38. Ka3 e5 39. dxe5 fxe5 40.R7c5
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