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 14
B66 Sicilian Defense: Richter-Rauzer Variation, Neo-Modern Variation
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. Bg5 e6 7. Qd2 a6 8.O-O-O h6 9. Be3 Bd7 10. f4 b5 11. Bd3 Be7 12. Kb1 Qc7 13. Rhe1 O-O 14. h3 Nxd4 15. Bxd4 b4 16. Ne2 e5 17. Bf2 a5 18. g4 a4 19. g5 hxg5 20. fxg5 Nh5 21. h4 b3 22. cxb3 axb3 23. Nc3 bxa2+ 24. Ka1 Be6 25. Be3 Rfc8 26. Be2 Nf4 27. Bxf4 exf4 28. Qxf4 Qb7 29. Qd2 Rab8 30. Rc1 Bd8 31. Nd5 Rxc1+ 32. Rxc1 Ba5 33. Qc2 Rc8 34. Qd1 Rxc1+ 35. Qxc1 Qb3 36. Bc4 Qg3 37. Bxa2 Qxh4 38. g6 fxg6 39. Bb3 Qxe4 40. Nf6+ gxf6 41. Qc8+ Kg7 42. Bxe6 Kh6 43. Bb3 Qe5 44. Qh3+ Kg7 45. Qd7+
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