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 4
C80 Ruy Lopez: Open, Bernstein Variation
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. Nbd2 Be7 10. Nxe4 dxe4 11. Bxe6 fxe6 12. Qxd8+ Rxd8 13. Ng5 Bxg5 14.Bxg5 Rd5 15. Rfe1 Nxe5 16. Bf4 Nc4 17. Rxe4 Kd7 18. b3 Nd6 19. Re2 Rf8 20. Bd2 Ne4 21. Ba5 Nc5 22. f3 Rf4 23. Bc3 g5 24. h3 h5 25. Kf2 g4 26. hxg4 hxg4 27.Kg3 gxf3 28. Kxf4 fxe2 29. Re1 b4 30. Bb2 Rd2 31. Ke3 Rxc2 32. Rxe2 Rxe2+ 33.Kxe2 Kd6 34. Ke3 Kd5 35. g4 Ne4 36. Kf4 Nf2 37. g5 Nd3+ 38. Ke3 Ne5 39. Kf4 Ng6+ 40. Kg4 Ke4 41. Bf6 c5 42. Bd8 Ne5+ 43. Kh5 Kf5 44. Bb6 c4 45. bxc4 Nxc4 46. Bc7 Ne3 47. g6 Nd5 48. g7 Nf6+ 49. Kh6 Ng8+ 50. Kh7 Nf6+ 51. Kh8
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