I am home sick lately and mannnn this series of vids you've made Mato put a smile on my dial , so much fun to listen to the way you describe them , very very well done .

My day is always better after watching Tal's magnificent play. Thank you Mato and may you provide us with another year of wonderful chess entertainment/instruction.

Brother Tal is amazing player in chess I can't believe this person, he is an outstanding ..this is the only person who use to to sacrifice more and more pieces I don't have words for him. I think Mikhail tal is the best attacking player .... Because usually the games of the other players which I have seen in past doesn't seem like this logical he is a incredible player .... I always guess the move but if you don't ask to guess this I can't think in the play that move ...thank you Mato you are have done great job...right now I am just thinking when would I get such a position in chess I will definetly play like him

Each games of the Riga's magician are mysterious and awesome ! I'm a great fan of TAL ! The best tactician and creative chess player of all time !

Happy 2013 Mato! Thank you for all of your hard work putting up these great videos to teach us and entertain us, you really are a blessing from the heavens!

Chess' immortal game...best one I've ever seen. When white played a4 Tal's brain was already working on the master plan, b6 wasn't necessary for the execution but gave him precious calculation seconds before committing the perfect crime...thanks mato!!

Tnx Mato! Another excellent Tal's game. Tal about himself: "In my games I have sometimes found a combination intuitively simply feeling that it must be there. Yet I was not able to translate my thought processes into normal human language."

Mato...your chess videos are pure magic...and i adore the great magician from riga...MIKHAIL TAL!!!!

Happy new year, and thank you for all the wonderful chess in 2012!

thank you mato for uploading this game......happy new year.......

Bishop takes pond...FINITO!

new years Tal marathon, awesome!!! happy new year Mato

Hi Mato, I wish you a happy New Year. Thx for the chess lessons, greetings from Vienna/Austria.

Nice review of a fantastic game

Happy New Year Mato and thank you for all your videos!

Happy New Year! Thanks for the game!

Mato I would like to wish you a Happy New Year! (And I will most certainly continue to watch your great videos) Cheers from Portugal, Lisbon.

MATO, I wish you Happy New Year. Thank you for all you have done for us.

Great video! Thank you. I love the wizard from Riga.

so glad first video of the year is a TAL video :)

Mato thanks for this briliant video ! Good job !!!

Mato, your videos have stuck in my head so much, that if I discover a new opening and search for it in KZfaq and a video by you doesn't come up, I will stick your name on the end so that I can find one by you.

I'm deeply analysing this game. Studying the Modern Benoni defense.

*another brilliant game by my all time fav player...Tal the Magnificent !!

3.26 Tal captures the pawn on h3 leaving his queen to be captured, Tals trademark move

i remember that, but to do that in a tournament! i do it all the time on playchess online, but the guy did it in tournaments all the time! he even did it a world championship game! guy is unbelievable....unreal

Fantastic game by the great Tal. And this succes-game with the black pieces in the Modern Benoni can make you ask yourself why there´s so much prejudice from many grandmasters on this opening. So much in fact that I only know of Topalov on top-level to like it so much that he plays it in his own games. Sad that only he seems to support this exciting and complicated opening. But maybe it´s because of it´s complications that many grandmasters avoid it. I think this is a good reason because of the complications Kasparov himself faced in this opening against for example Korchnoi. But should this stop us from playing it? I can´t see that this opening is the greatest bluff in modern opening-theory as some people think. Just because you´re facing enormous difficulties in playing it doesn´t mean it´s unsound. I haven´t seen any computeranalysis that confirms this. I think it´s an opening that can develop the indivdual player enormously. Don´t be afraid of it. It´s a gift to chessplayers who doesn´t fear complications....

if Queen takes bishop at c4 then white queen take pawn at g2 check, then king moves to d1 and finally queen takes bishop at d2 and its checkmate with queen and rook

I saw the killer move even before the warning bell.,,.But only because I learned to look over the shoulder of a genius !!!

Highly dynamic game, introduced by a spirited Mato! Thanks :)

Nitza was very good player to i remember him

Tal´s mobes looks so simply, but no one see that - except Tal.

Amazing player................,

omg....that is just not even human. there were so many deep calculations in that variation, it would take average peoples days to calculate

A masterpiece game by mikhail tal... Wow

Happy New Year Mato!

woooot i love these! I was planning some positional games for my next tourney but it seems that i should go for some tactical playing too :D

I think it's Qg2+, Kd1, then Qd2 checkmate. It only works because the white queen is no longer defending the bishop.

At 6:14 at first I thought white could refuse the Bishop by playing Qc3, but then black would play QxR+, and after white plays BxQ, Rd1 is mate.

At 5:20, Tal could have captured the g2 pawn with the queen. The knight couldn't take because it's pinned by the e8 castle. This puts the king in a position where he must retreat, and further advancement on Tal's part can be achieved through the castles and bishops, as well as pushing a pawn up through the b file to threaten the castle and limit space further. Would that be a good continuation?

we need many more tal games...

I remember reading about when Tal was planning a sacrifice, but it was too difficult to see if it worked or not. Then he remembered a quote: "Oh, what a difficult job it was. To drag out of the marsh the hippopotamus." He spent loads of time thinking about HOW you would get a hippo out of the marsh. That's when it hit him; just let it drown! He realised the sacrifice was purely intuitive. The next day, the papers reported that after 40 minutes, Tal played an accurately calculated sacrifice :)

another great video, im going to try that knight sac in my games, but i probably will not know the right continuation but it will be fun trying and the game will be dedicated to mato.

Mato, how about a Modern Benoni game in which White captures the pawn on e6 at move 4? There haven’t been many - I can guess why - but it would be instructive to see a couple of strong players grapple with the results.

tal was brutal

for the puzzle its instead of Kd1, white played Qxc4..then its Qxg2+,Kd1,Qxd2 mate

Amazing chess by Tal...

Happy New Year Mato.

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU TOO MATO :D

damn Mato you have a knack for picking amazing games!

I like your voice, it makes me calm :)

thanks

A Fantastic Video by Mr.Mato...An excellent option of choosing the game of Tal..It was a delightful sacrificial game by Mikhail Tal...But I had a doubt in the opening..Please solve a query...What would happen if 11.Bxa6 would be played by white?It would led to a doubled-pawn queen side structure for white...So I wanted to ask that is 10...Na6 a good move?

Happy new year mato :D

Yeah, playing in tournament settings is very different. Tal began to succeed after he realised that not only was he scared, but his opponents were too.

Big fan of your channel

happy new year mato :-)

Thank u Mato for finding another v

"It is better to say goodbye to the Bishop than to have a dead King."

Mikhail tal was truelly the magician of chess

Qxg2 check, followed by Kd1, then Qx B chkmt

I also prefer to have a bishop pair, but 2 knights can be really annoying to have against you too =). I don't like trading my bishop for a knight, but if I have to, I'll do it. Usually I trade my knight for a bishop.

If 28.Qxc4 then 28. ... Qxg2+, 29.Kd1 (only move) Qxd2# =)

If 28. Qxc4 then 28. ... Qxg3+ 29. Kd1 Qxd2# Thanks for all your video's this year Mato. Best of luck to you in 2013 :)

tals moves are very deep but easiest to guess, if you know that tal is playing

Mato, Happy New Year 2013 !!!

Tal was in chess like Federer is in tennis today. A genius attacking player. Too bad we cannot see Tal at his best against Magnus(the best grinder) although sadly I think Magnus would be favored.

happy new year

killer move

Great!

You got 2 thumbs and a seal of approval from jmertelj even though 29. Kg1 is an illegal move , though its quite plain what you meant its not really a typo because d isnt next to g on the keyboard .

Qxc4, Qxg2!, Kd1, Qxd2 checkmate

I'm not so sure, if I was playing Tal and he sacrificed a piece against me, I would be overwhelmed with honour and joy! I think it would be much better to lose to a brilliant attacking combination 29 moves after a sacrifice than to win a dull positional struggle.

nice video

I think the SAS has adopted Tal ways " who dares win"

wonderfull but very risky opening. i remember Bobby Fischer playing this opening against Spasskij who was shocked about such a silly move as to move the black knight to the edge of the board and having doubled pawn on h file. but nevertheless Fischer knew exactly what he was doing. whatch this awesome Game :D

@3:23 "IN THE GAME" LOL

I think you meant Kd1 in your solution. That works.

if i can pause the video, i often find the "Killer - moves", but in my games, it's a problem, because 1.) how to get in that kind of position, and 2.) when is it time to play a killer - move? in this games i know there must be a good move that works, on the board i don't know if i play a "killer move" or just blunder!? anyway, your videos are very instructive and i like it! thanks to adelaide from berlin. and where is berlin? ;)

yeah, I came up to the same conclusion.

i would like to see Morgan Freeman commentary a game

hi mato :) what about King NOT taking Knight is Tal still winning ??

yay i saw bishop sacrifice :P

We don't see Benoni very often ...

hahah yeah. he puts the onus on them to solve a huge chess problem and knows it's impossible to fullly calculate, then uses his intuition in order to see if it is a good attack. that's the same skill set needed in go. you can't really fully calculate, you just use instinct and go by feeling and experience. i think tal was the greatest chess player to play the game.

but had a query..what happens if 10.Bxa6 is played by white?

I think that we chessplayers should push ourselves in our understanding of chess by studying games of the great attackingplayers like Morphy, Aljechin, Tal, Fischer, Kasparov, Morozevich, Grischuk, Topalov and Aronian. That´s the best way to improve one´s chess. Much positional play unfortunately seems to stagnate because strategic advantages are static while dynamic advantages are more fluid. However I don´t think one should completely neglect positional principles, but have at least a basic understanding of it.

Mato, at 7:22 why didnt queen takes bishop?

Better to say goodbye to Bishop... but, they wear a nifty hat!

i used to wach tal play again and again even the same game also.....i wish Tal should reborn in this boring and defensive game era

Why can't the queen take the bishop?

Mato or any other, at 5:32 when Bishop captures Knight is it not possible to recapture with the Queen? Am i missing something? Thanks!

Happy New year Mato kamusta n b?

After 15.Kxf2 , instead of Qh4+ why not Bd4+? What do you think?

FINITO!! LOL ;D

after Qxh3 Bf3 why not Ba6+? what will happen? Mato?

Kg1? how does the king moves 2 times and also in the wrong way? You Proberly mean Kd1.

It is better to say goodbye to bishop than to have a dead king 🤣🤣🤣

keske Tal daha yaşasaydı:((

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