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 7
B40 Sicilian Defense: French Variation, Westerinen Attack
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. b3 Nc6 4. Bb2 d5 5. exd5 exd5 6. Bb5 Nf6 7. O-O Be7 8. d4 cxd4 9. Nxd4 Bd7 10. Re1 O-O 11. Nc3 Rc8 12. Nce2 Bb4 13. c3 Ba5 14. Bxc6 bxc6 15. b4 Bb6 16. Ng3 c5 17. bxc5 Bxc5 18. Qd3 Qb6 19. Rab1 Bxd4 20. cxd4 Qa5 21.Ba3 Rc3 22. Qxc3 Qxc3 23. Bxf8 Kxf8 24. Nf5 g6 25. Rec1 Qa5 26. Rb8+ Be8 27.Ne3 Kg7
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