Monday, December 21, 2020

I adding this to my list of favorite chess quotes.

Wanna play like Tal
Brooklyn United States

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The chessplayer probably has a Brooklyn accent. He was my opponent. I won an interesting game. We had an opposite-colored bishops endgame. I had the Black pieces. https://lichess.org/7m7xusfm/black#0

Brooklyn is a borough of New York City, co-extensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. It is the most-populous county in the state, the second-most densely populated county in the United States, and New York City's most populous borough, with an estimated 2,648,403 residents in 2020.


Mikhail Tal is a famous Soviet Latvian chess player.

Mikhail Tal
Mikhail Tal 1962.jpg
Tal in 1962
Full nameLatvianMihails Tāls
RussianМихаил Нехемьевич Таль
CountrySoviet Union → Latvia
Born9 November 1936
RigaRepublic of Latvia
Died28 June 1992[1] (aged 55)
MoscowRussia
TitleGrandmaster (1957)
World Champion1960–61
Peak rating2705 (January 1980)

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