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 9
A10 English Opening: Adorjan Defense
1. c4 g6 2. e4 e5 3. d4 Nc6 4. Nf3 exd4 5. Nxd4 Bg7 6. Be3 Nge7 7. Be2 O-O 8.Nc3 d6 9. O-O f5 10. exf5 Bxd4 11. Bxd4 Nxf5 12. Be3 Nxe3 13. fxe3 Be6 14.Rxf8+ Qxf8 15. Ne4 Qg7 16. Ng5 Qe5 17. Nxe6 Qxe3+ 18. Kh1 Qxe6 19. Bf3 Kg7 20.Bd5 Qf6 21. Qb3 Rf8 22. h3 Na5 23. Qa4 c6 24. Qxa5 cxd5 25. Qxd5 Qxb2 26. Re1 Rf7 27. Qxd6 Qf2 28. Qe5+ Qf6
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