[chessmind-announce] New post at The Chess Mind
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Hello,
There is a new post on The Chess Mind. You can read it at:
http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1176764383.shtml
It begins:
The stuff that shows up on YouTube is pretty
amazing sometimes. Here's a brief video of Mikhail
Tal winning the world championship against Mikhail
Botvinnik back in 1960 - the good times. And then
there's this video of him just a few weeks before
his death in 1992, and it's almost horrifying,
considering he was just 55 years old at the time.
On the plus side, he actually won that game (a
blitz contest against Kasparov) - on time,
incredibly. (There are other brief Tal videos
there; you'll see them on the sidebar.)...
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