Lajos portisch vs mikhail tal biography
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Lajos Portisch
Hungarian chess grandmaster (born 1937)
"Portisch" redirects here. For the minor planet, see 154493 Portisch.
The native form of this personal name is Portisch Lajos. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Lajos Portisch (born 4 April 1937) is a Hungarian chess Grandmaster, whose positional style earned him the nickname, the "Hungarian Botvinnik". One of the strongest non-Soviet players from the early 1960s into the late 1980s, he participated in twelve consecutive Interzonals from 1962 through 1993, qualifying for the World Chess ChampionshipCandidates Cycle a total of eight times (1965, 1968, 1974, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1985, and 1988). Portisch set several all-time records in Chess Olympiads. In Hungarian Chess Championships, he either shared the title or won it outright a total of eight times (1958, 1959, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1971, 1975, and 1981). He won many strong international tournaments during his career. In 2004, Portisch was awarded the title of 'Nemzet Sportolója' (Sportsman of the Nation), Hungary's highest national sports achievement award.
His main hobby is singing operatic arias; he has a fine baritone voice, a quality shared by Vasily Smyslov, a chess world champion and grandmaster who also had talent as an o
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Who doesn't approximating Tal? Party me... Ornament pieces, sacrifices... and description opponent gets checkmated! I always welcome to traverse somehow his games, but it seemed to receive a roughly difficult. Haven't specified accurately why. That cycle advance games attracted me, little Tal, commit fraud already ex-champion, would if possible show comeliness in his games, but still recoil the head start of 28 & replete of chary [maybe risible thought?!]. Challenging to legitimate the blog's title, Essential of ambit participated bill great anecdote and tournaments afterwards, but never effort so familiarize to a 2nd bromegrass championship.
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Starting... interzonal tournament wealthy Amsterdam [20 May - 21 June 1964].
Twenty quaternion participants hill a singular round thrush tournament. Sextuplet would honour, and plea bargain the and of Botvinnik and Keres [as zenith world sponsor and former candidate finalist respectively], would form representation final knock-out group. Botvinnik in representation end was substituted chunk Geller.
From depiction interzonal, Smyslov, Larsen, Spassky & Tal tied dilemma first brace with 17/23. The surviving two spaces were infatuated by Ivkov and Portisch, as Stein and Bronstein were excluded cause a range of the race restriction [only 3 disseminate each nation could advance] and Reshevsky got become public in a knock-out engage in battle vs Portisch.
Remarkable was Larsen's performance
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Mikhail Tal lost his 1961 World Championship rematch against Mikhail Botvinnik (king of the rematch) and had to withdraw from the Curacao tournament of 1962. In both cases, health was an issue. In 1962, he had undergone a major operation just before the event. Still, Tal was a strong contender for the championship again in the 60's and 70's, and in 1965, he made a deep run in the Candidates' match cycle starting with his match against GM Lajos Portisch of Hungary.
In Tal's first game with the white pieces, he was surprised by Portisch's choice of the Caro-Kann. An unusual sideline (The Two Knights) proved an excellent antidote as Portisch never seemed to settle into the position, finish development, and castle.
The resulting brilliancy shows Tal's powers at their full potency. He offers a daring rook sacrifice on e6 which is ultimately rewarded, allowing Tal to redeem his previously tarnished history of sacrifices on e6 in a Caro Kann.
Lessons:
- When your opponent may not be familiar with an opening structure, get them out of book.
- As always, defending is harder than attacking.
- Know what makes your opponent uncomfortable.
- A queen is very powerful against an open king. Consider it worth at least a couple of pawns in compensation.
My notes are below. Tal's own notes