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 3
B18 Caro-Kann Defense: Classical Variation
1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bf5 5. Ng3 Bg6 6. Nf3 Nd7 7. Bd3 Qc7 8.O-O e6 9. Re1 Ngf6 10. c4 Be7 11. b3 O-O 12. Bb2 a5 13. Rc1 Qf4 14. d5 cxd5 15.cxd5 Nxd5 16. Rc4 Qb8 17. Bxg6 hxg6 18. h4 Bf6 19. Bxf6 N7xf6 20. Ne5 Qd6 21.h5 gxh5 22. Nxh5 Rad8 23. Nxg7 Kxg7 24. Rg4+ Kh8 25. Rh4+ Kg7 26. Qd2 Rh8 27.Qg5+ Kf8 28. Rxh8+ Ke7 29. Rh7 Rg8 30. Rxf7+ Ke8 31. Rg7 Rxg7 32. Qxg7 Qe7
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