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White to move and mate in two #378 -- The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal [1]
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Date: 2023-07-13
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It was especially interesting on this occassion, for Fischer, who was my rival, demonstratively took Najdorf aside to prepare him for our game. It was quite clear: Najdorf was being initiated into the secrets of an interesting variation of the Scilian Defence, which Fischer systematically and successfully later adopted as Black.
On the evening before the game, the Soviet Grandmasters were with Gligoric’ in the hotel bar, when Fischer came up to the table and confidentially informed me: ‘You will lose tomorrow to Najdorf. But on the whole you haven’t played badly, and I have no objection to sharing first place with you, so I won’t win against Ivkov.’
I did my best to dissuade Robert, but he stuck to his opinion. The following day I played a completely different variation against Najdorf. Fischer came up, saw what was happening, and frowned …
Tal — Najdorf
Bled, 1961
Sicilian Defence
1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 d6 3 d4 cxd4 4 Nxd4 Nf6 5 Nc3 a6 6 Be2 The Najdorf-Fischer duo had prepared for my normal 6 Bg5 e6 7 f4, the reply … Qb6?!
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