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Smash
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Civ2 Diehard
Jul 1999
time: 21:14
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LOL..oh ya he was man of many talents 
Some Tal-ism
* Youngest World Champion until Kasparov.
* Played in 8 Olympiads, 5 Best board Results, 3 times absolute best score.
* 6 times USSR Champion.
* Lost only once to Kasparov & once to Karpov.
* A countback of ELO ratings revealed that Tal's rating during his peak around 1960 would be 7th in the all time rankings with 2700 behind Fischer, Kasparov, Capablanca, Botvinnik, Lasker, & Karpov. In fact in 1979 following his wins in Montreal & Riga he went up to 2710.
* 3rd in 1985 Interzonal thus qualifying for Candidates at 49
* Only 3 men played in both USSR-Rest of the World matches - Tal, Larsen, & Polugaevsky.
Quotes about Tal
* If Tal had really studied Chess in the late fifties and early sixties he would have been impossible to play against - Botvinnik
* How does Tal win? - He develops all his pieces in the centre and then sacrifices them somewhere - Bronstein
* If Tal has an open file it will be mate - an onlooker at a Tal post mortem analysis session.
Tal quotes
* "If you wait for luck to turn up, life becomes very boring."
* "There are two types of sacrifices - sound ones and mine."
>I don't know.Ken or Carolus....we're afraid of you,you big bully 
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Ken Hinds
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I just had my chance to get back to this game. I start a new thread with my first move shortly.
Ken
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