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 been broken by Garry Kasparov who won the ...

The draws in the fourth round of the 7th Tal Memorial don’t tell the whole story. Magnus Carlsen with three draws in the previous rounds, went all out to try crazy stuff against Alexander Grischuk.

“I think it has been a very interesting tournament. There have been twists and turns that noone could foresee. As for myself, I thing I played, well I stared slowly. My first three gmes were not ...

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 in ...

The Grandmaster from Chennai, who last played in the Sinquefield Cup 2016 in August, has participated in only three of the 10 editions of the Tal Memorial, a fifth place being his best finish. After a ...

World Champion Viswanathan Anand had to settle for a draw against Sergey Karjakin of Russia in the first round of the Tal Memorial Chess tournament in Moscow. After a forgettable show in the ...