Back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Mikhail Tal Chess Club at what was then the Soviet Cultural Centre in Chennai, which I attended, used to reverberate with amateur players’ raucous ...

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 ...

Mikhail Tal was world champion for only one year but the "magician from Riga" has gained the accolade of "genius" more than any other player in chess history because of the imaginative fantasies ...

Remarkable chess games: Botvinnik vs Tal. Mikhail Tal in thought in 1964 (Photo: Harry Pot/Dutch National Archives) By Errol Tiwari. April 27, 2025.