[Event "Chess Olympiad (Men) final"]
[Site "Varna"]
[Date "1962.??.??"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Tal, Mikhail"]
[Black "Hecht, Hans Joachim"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E13"]
[Annotator "GM Lubomir Kavalek/Huffington Post"]
[PlyCount "97"]
[EventDate "1962.09.16"]
[EventType "team"]
[EventRounds "12"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]

{"The whole game resembles an artistic creation of the highest order. The
Latvian artists Juta & Mareks used the position before 19.exf6 to honor their
countryman. They recreated it on an one-by-one meter palette, but they left
out the black pawn on c5. In early November 2008, I discovered the piece in an
art shop in Munich and immediately bought it even with the artistic mistake."
- Hecht)} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. Bg5 Bb7 6. e3 h6 7. Bh4
Bxc3+ 8. bxc3 d6 9. Nd2 e5 10. f3 Qe7 11. e4 Nbd7 12. Bd3 Nf8 13. c5 dxc5 14.
dxe5 Qxe5 15. Qa4+ c6 16. O-O Ng6 17. Nc4 {Gone is Hecht's solidly-built game.
Instead, he finds himself in the middle of Tal's beautiful combinational dance.
With a pawn sacrifice, Tal unbalanced the game and opened it up. The hitting
game begins.} Qe6 18. e5 b5 19. exf6 $1 ({"I almost fell out of my chair when
I saw this reply, since I was counting only with} 19. Qb3 {But that was not
all. Suddenly a large demostration board appeared on my right and our position
was being quickly set up. Sensation-seeking spectators were rushing towards
our table. In addition, Tal's teammates were crowding around our board,
resembling organ pipes." - Hecht  "Here the temperamental Najdorf, who was
watching the game, gave me a kiss. The same move, also announcing a queen
sacrifice, appeared in the famous game Lilienthal-Capablanca, Hastings 1934/35,
in which the young master quickly forced the former world champion to resign.
Hecht played his replay without thinking," Tal saw the key moment of the game,
where the crowning glory is a positional queen sacrifice.}) 19... bxa4 20. fxg7
Rg8 21. Bf5 $3 {Diagram #  "This is where I lost it. It took me several
minutes before I was able to calculate the next variations. Tal considered
this game one of the most beautiful in the Olympiad. For me, it represents a
wonderful example of  harmonious coordination of the pieces. I was still able
to find the best defense." - Hecht} Nxh4 (21... Qxf5 22. Nd6+ Kd7 23. Nxf5 Nxh4
24. Nxh4 {with a bad endgame for black.}) (21... Qxc4 22. Rfe1+ Qe6 23. Rxe6+
fxe6 24. Bxg6+ Kd7 25. Rd1+ Kc7 (25... Kc8 26. Bf6) 26. Bg3+ Kb6 27. Rb1+ Ka6
28. Bd3+ Ka5 29. Bc7#) 22. Bxe6 Ba6 $1 {" I chose this move not to win a piece,
but to remove the terrible white knight." - Hecht} 23. Nd6+ Ke7 24. Bc4 Rxg7
25. g3 Kxd6 26. Bxa6 {The end of the combination. Black is left with a
shattered pawn structure. Hecht is not lost by all means, but he has to defend
precisely.} Nf5 $2 ({Allowing Tal to control the b-file. Black could still
defend with} 26... Rb8 $1) 27. Rab1 f6 28. Rfd1+ Ke7 29. Re1+ Kd6 30. Kf2 c4
31. g4 (31. Re4 $1 {picking up a few pawns, wins easily.}) 31... Ne7 32. Rb7
Rag8 33. Bxc4 Nd5 34. Bxd5 cxd5 35. Rb4 Rc8 $2 ({Missing the last drawing
chance. The computers propose to equalize with} 35... h5 36. h3 f5 $11) (35...
f5 36. h3 h5 $11) 36. Rxa4 Rxc3 37. Ra6+ Kc5 38. Rxf6 h5 39. h3 hxg4 40. hxg4
Rh7 41. g5 Rh5 42. Rf5 Rc2+ 43. Kg3 Kc4 44. Ree5 d4 45. g6 Rh1 46. Rc5+ Kd3 47.
Rxc2 Kxc2 48. Kf4 Rg1 49. Rg5 ({After} 49. Rg5 Rxg5 50. Kxg5 d3 51. g7 d2 52.
g8=Q d1=Q 53. Qb3+ {white wins.}) 1-0

