Tal's matches v. Timman (Montpellier, 1985 & Hilversum, 1988

In the course of three years in the second half of the 1980s, Mikhail Tal twice had occasion to play six-game matches against the leading Dutch grandmaster Jan Timman.  In both cases his second Vladimir Bagirov annotated the match-games for the Soviet Latvian magazine Shakhmaty (Riga).  This blog post features translations of these annotations, plus…

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