#28 · The Magician Takes the Crown

World Championship Match, Game 6 · 1960 · vs Mikhail Botvinnik
You are Mikhail Tal.
1936–1992 · The Magician from Riga · Meet the Legend

Moscow, 1960. Game six of the World Championship. You are Mikhail Tal, twenty-three years old, facing the iron champion Botvinnik — and you are about to drop a knight onto a defended square for nothing but chaos. The sacrifice is unsound, the confusion is not, and the crown is four games away.

Find the moves they actually played · 🟩 exact · 🟨 engine says just as good · five lives

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Paul MorphyAdolf AnderssenPhilipp MeitnerAkiba RubinsteinFrank MarshallAron NimzowitschEsteban CanalMNMikhail TalBobby FischerGarry KasparovDBMagnus Carlsen

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