When I see Mikhail Tal in a title I have to watch it.

As with most of Tal's games, you want to put 10 or 20 exclamation points across his moves for the beauty, purity, and surprise, he was a poet warrior on a chessboard, he wasn't afraid to lose.

So glad to see you uploading regularly these days. You are the Bob Ross of chess!

The most impressive thing about Tal to me is the length of moves he's able to maintain pressure. A game like this is a great example of that. Sure he won some beautiful miniatures with his trademark attacks but games that lean towards the longer side like this are on another level. Tolush spent nearly the entire game scrambling around trying to hold the whole house of cards together. Tal never once let him get a moment to breathe.

As always, Jerrys videos are the best😊

Best chess channel, we are grateful to you Jerry!

Tal is definitely one of the greatest attackers in chess history. Very Paul Morphy like.

Tal's my favorite and this is the best chess channel going these days. Thank you, Jerry.

Bishop b1 is an incredible conceptual move

Your insights into the “why” of moves and strategy are always so clear.

Thanks for posting this. I love your commentaries, and live games too.

1:25 am here in India,just received notification from chess network.

Great explanation of the game. Thanks for going over it.

Hi Jerry! It's everyone.

Impressive and educational! Thank you!

Magnificent commentary, Jerry. Thank you. ♟️

The game is superb, and I absolutely liked the reportage

Thank you for sharing!

Love your work

Sometimes I want to watch these videos at night before bed but can't since Jerry doesn't describe full notation in his videos. Would be incredible if we could have a video with full notation said by you when describing games because your videos are top tier. Thanks 😊❤

This is great inspiration. I'm currently experimenting with openings that push as many pawns as quickly as possible. This game made me realize I'm overextending myself. I think pushing the f & g pawns, instead of balancing with stronger pieces, is what's wrecking my game. It's not feasible to push your entire legion of pawns forward during early and mid game because your king is critical to defending them but lacks the mobility to follow them. Hence why I keep getting crushed by the players who leave their king's pawns on their starting rank tucked away in the corner. Meanwhile my bishops are getting cut off by my own knights because I need the knights to trade off against infiltrating pieces. Either the bishops get cut off or they get traded for knights; either way I don't know how to play it to my advantage. I know my strategy is faulty but it's important to figure out *exactly* why; maybe avalanche style play has its niches if I only figure out how to see them. My reasoning for trying to push pawns early is because in most games, when played accurately enough, both sides stay equal and trade down to an endgame. And, obviously, the more advanced your pawns are during the endgame, the better. But trying this strategy is messing up my ability to even get *to* the endgame.

Great video! I hope you continue to upload regularly

amazing commentary i love it

great video - well explained. thanks

There are several classics Tal To,ush, this is certainly one of them. Thanks Jerry

I tryrd to subscribe again on this video. Your getting really good at this bro.

Incredible instructive and straight forward how Jerry comments this classic kingsindian Sämisch variation.

Great video

Very informative

youve done it again Jerry

Ty GM 👍🏾

Best in the business. Cheers Jerry

Keep them coming Jerry.

Hey! I love your videos and would like to know which theme/website is that

There can be better chess players than Tal but there is no Tal. No one can play like him. A real magician from Riga.

Great game....

He is something extra ordinary, a poet in the chess board...

Tal had a very creative way of attacking his opponents positions. The way he would make his moves were brilliant. His nickname, The Magician of Riga, was well earned.

SATISFIYING TO SEE YOUR OPPONENT BEING CRUSHED

Jerry the GOAT

Imho there are great players you love to watch ,and those you want to learn from ,and there are players like Tal that you just admire without conditions :)

funny that always in Tal's games after a piece goes on a square where it can be captured apparently for free, jerry starts saying " what other options do you have?"

And yet all the calculators like Keres defeated the magician. His playing style worked very well against Fischer. Keres in his prime would have had the same record against Fischer as his fan boy. People focus too much on Spassky and Iron Tigran when real chads came from Riga and Narva.

thanks Jerry...so much to learn from Tal's style about positional ideas.

3:20 that's sick

I am from Bangladesh and in Bengali language "Tal" means mad . Tal is really Tal🔥🔥

Jerry, any chance you can have the engine bar on the side. This is very nice to visual during the analysis.

Jerry, Why don't you continue to analyze the chess games of the supercomputers? I really like you doing about it. I hope you will continue to do so. Thank you very much.

The last chess player to just have fun

Tal slices through defenses like a lightsaber through Swiss.

I learned a lot for tournament play from Tal. I started playing tourny chess late, but I have beaten several masters with simply exchanging my rook for a knight and cracking open his king. They just don't see that coming from an 1800.

Tal the Warrior on the chessboard !!!

Pure domination

Tolush was Tal's long time second, wasn't he? Or at least after this tournament (Tal won the USSR Championship before he'd qualified to be an IM). [edit: I was thinking of Alexander Koblentz.]

I really like the saemisch system against kings india.

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My favorite player of all time is Mikhail Tal. Jerry has a lot to do with it.

Most beautiful, uncle Tal

new Jerry upload from 2 hours ago!? Don't mind if I do 👀

Is this re-upload?

Tolush seems to have played an opening basically as “bad” as the Sicilian Dragon and Tal just played extremely natural moves. But maybe because at the time Tolush didn’t know how bad the opening was he felt like Tal played well, but I feel like a lot of us could play the same moves and win in a blitz game. Anyone disagree?

You said move 9 is c5, but the score sheet says d5.

Tal was the Tao of chess.

10:59 we all know tal is the only one that can laugh in the face of stockfish

I must be psychic - and not in a good way! It seems like everytime I’m playing an opening with my longtime friend and long distance chess opponent, the VERY next game I see from you, Jerry, is the exact same opening I’m playing! In this one, it’s all the way down to the Saemich of the Kings Indian! Then I feel like I’m cheating, because we go by the old rules of the Correspondence Chess League of America: You can refer to BOOKS/literature between moves, but no “electronic aid”. 😕 Oh well, I’ll try to forget whatever I learnt here. Which should be easy, since this was very uncharacteristic of Tal’s play - positional and closed - right up to the last phase. Maybe that was Tal’s strategy in this one - to play completely out of his opponent’s expectations?

Jerry at this point is just drawing non sense lines on board for a good a thumbnail Still a good video 😁

At move 21, why not pawn to h6? Can someone explain why giving up the knight is better?

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Why not 27. Bg5 attacking the queen and threatening Qxh7+?

Using your opponents doubled pawns as a defensive resource is clever and not something a low level player like me would really consider, the urge to recapture is too great and knowing I'm a pawn down would affect me. This is the reason why I'm not a GM (plus a million other reasons).

Mikhail Tal made Alexander Tolush look like Alexander Toilet.

Hi Jerry.

Have watched many thriller movies of Tal, and still, in awe of them. 😎😎

If someone does this in internet today, or maybe even in OTB the phrase will go like this "you know boris today I played a cheater"

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Tal isvtallest in Chess

HI JERRY IT'S ME

Tals amazing but I feel hes a GM who is hard to learn from. Im only 1300 rated and trying to emulate Tal would be catastrophic for me.

Well, is 90% accuracy really all that good? even against a strong player yet only managed 87. Tal may have magical games but not sure this was one. I suspect that after Qd2 move 8 with the battery that stockfish would have unspeakable plans for the swift murder of black.

queen a5 on move 12 than queen c7 on move 14 is odd

Tal must have been disappointed; he could not get to do any sacrifice, esp. no intricate ones.

40….Qd3+doesn’t that lead to a perpetual? Obviously black can’t fork room and king and take the rook but it seems a perpetual is possible

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Hey Jerry, youre my favorite chess channel and i dont like watching absolutely anyone else. I like to watch English openings because it seems different, i noticed you have videos where its involved and youre playing Black. This deeply saddens me and it makes for a sad day. Please play the English opening as white or i will dislike all of your videos despite you not being bothered by it at all. Thank you much love.

Gg

Maybe I’m the next Carlsen but I didn’t see any genius in this game.

Pieces sequestered on the back rank is never a good idea

I disagree

Please stop showing so many sidelines that didn't happen.

I didn’t like this video. The narrator’s comments are lengthy without substance and poorly timed especially the analysis in the beginning. Also the wording is not precise. “White is up a piece” that “piece” is a pawn.

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