À la Tal

by Oliver Reeh
12/21/2018 – In the diagram position Black can snatch a pawn with 20...Bxf2. But why be so petty-minded... better start a mating attack instead! Can you play like the 8th world champion?
On this DVD Dorian Rogozenco, Mihail Marin, Oliver Reeh and Karsten Müller present the 8. World Chess Champion in video lessons: his openings, his understanding of chess strategy, his artful endgame play, and finally his immortal combinations.

À la Tal II

My father very fondly remembers Mihail Tal's visit to Bremen in the early 1980s - the charming magician from Riga used to play blitz against three opponents simultaneously, cigarette in one hand, a glass of something in front of him, all the time telling stories - in German!

 
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1.c4 d6 2.d4 e5 3.Nc3 Nd7 4.Nf3 Ngf6 5.g3 g6 6.Bg2 Bg7 7.0-0 0-0 8.h3 c6 9.e4 Qb6 10.Re1 Re8 11.Rb1 exd4 12.Nxd4 Ng4 13.hxg4 Qxd4 14.g5 Qxc4 15.Qxd6 Ne5 16.Bf1 Nf3+ 17.Kh1 Qd4 18.Qxd4 Bxd4 19.Rd1 Bg4 20.Bf4 In the diagram position Black can snatch a pawn with 20...Bxf2. But who would be so petty-minded... if he can start a mate attack instead! Can you play like the 8th world champion?
Tal had a very simple chess motto: Attack the enemy king! Can you find his continuation as Black?
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88 times, IM Oliver Reeh leads you step by step through the most brillant game conclusions of the world champions - in interactive Fritztrainer format, enabling you to enter the winning moves yourself.

Oliver Reeh in ChessBase Magazine

Do you like these lessons? There are plenty more by tactic expert Oliver Reeh in ChessBase Magazine, where you will also find openings articles and surveys, endgames, and of course annotations by the world's top grandmasters.
 

The best of ChessBase Magazine #187:

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Oliver Reeh has been working for ChessBase for many years as a translator and presenter of the internet show TV ChessBase, and he also looks after the tactics column in ChessBase Magazine, for which he has also been responsible as editor-in-chief since 2019. The International Master has contributed to the CB "MasterClass" series and is the author of the DVDs "Strike like the World Champions" and "Master Class Tactics - Train your combination skills!" Volumes 1 & 2. Oliver Reeh lives in Hamburg.

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