My Misha – Mikhail Tal

#039;My  head  is  filled  with  sunshine'  - these  were  the  first words  of  the 23 -year-old Misha Tal  in an overcrowded hall in Moscow,  immediately  af­ter his brilliant victory in  the  candidates tournament in Yugoslavia  in  1959. It  was  there,  too,  that  he  said:  'In  the  first game  of  the  match  with Botvinnik I will…

Nepenthe - “Misha was so ill-equipped for living When he travelled to a tournament, he couldn't even pack his own suitcaseHe didn't even know how to turn on the gas for cooking.

On this day in 1960, Mikhail Tal defeated Mikhail Botvinnik 12½-8½ in Moscow to become the 8th world chess champion! : r/chess

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