Mikhail Tal, the “magician from Riga”, was world champion for one year but he has become one of the greatest legends, a true genius. Tal had creative imagination in abundance, helped by a fantastic ...

Mikhail Tal (1936-1992), a Soviet/Latvian chess player, was an interesting man. He was a grandmaster at 21, a world champion at 23 (that record has since been broken by Garry Kasparov who won the ...

I have met many fine chess players in my time, but very few I would deign to describe as geniuses: Mikhail Tal was one of them. He was a pitiable physical specimen, short and oligodactyl since birth, ...

It seems chess goddess Caissa is particularly kind to world chess #1 Norway’s, Magnus Carlsen as not only did the talented genius pull off a crucial last-round victory, but the overnight leader ...

The games of yesteryear which are considered elegant masterpieces were contested without the assistance of computers. When we re-examine them with assistance of technology we realize they are ...