The Genius of Mikhail Tal

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.

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.

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

As always, Jerrys videos are the best😊

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

Best chess channel, we are grateful to you Jerry!

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

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.

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 explanation of the game. Thanks for going over it.

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 😊❤

Magnificent commentary, Jerry. Thank you. ♟️

Great video! I hope you continue to upload regularly

Impressive and educational! Thank you!

The game is superb, and I absolutely liked the reportage

Love your work