This week someone asked about the "most amazing draws in chess history". The first answer was Larry Even;s swindle of Sammy Reshevsky in the 1963/64 US Championship, although to my mind it was just a stalemate trick. A better answer was Hamppe - Metner 1872, but for my money Fischer v Tal 1960 is the best.
I can remember seeing it for the first time as a kid and was amazed that the game ended the way it did. I thought surely someone must be winning, giving the number of pieces hanging in mid-air. But of course both players had managed to calculate their way through the complications, and saw that all sensible paths led to a perpetual.
Fischer,Robert James - Tal,Mihail [C17]
Leipzig ol, 1960
2 comments:
Great game, thanks!
Hi Shaun,
An excellent book you should try and find is "Draw!" by Wolfgang Heidenfeld, which is full of amazing and interesting drawn games.
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