How should one go about studying Tal's games?

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WinchenzoMagnifico

I recently bought the Life and games of mikhail tal.... so far a lot of the sacrifices he makes stockfish says better moves could be found for the defender, and tal also had better moves to make other than the sacrifice... so what should i take away when i play over his games?

Like when to intuitively know if a speculative sacrifice will prove effective against a human opponent?

Irontiger
WinchenzoMagnifico wrote:

Like when to intuitively know if a speculative sacrifice will prove effective against a human opponent?

If I knew it, I would already be a titled player.

Alas, no way... You have to practice, practice, practice.

royalbishop
WinchenzoMagnifico wrote:

I recently bought the Life and games of mikhail tal.... so far a lot of the sacrifices he makes stockfish says better moves could be found for the defender, and tal also had better moves to make other than the sacrifice... so what should i take away when i play over his games?

Like when to intuitively know if a speculative sacrifice will prove effective against a human opponent?

Smile knowing you have a way to punish your opponents.

I would post the games here that i like and ask what everybody thought about it. That way you gain more from studing them. I want to get that book so bad......?  How many pages and games?

Rasparovov

Study his games as a psychological factor. If there is a very confusing sacrifice, play it, at your level it should win very often since it's easier to attack than defend. Or that's what people learn first from what I know.

sid_chess101

Study everything you can find on Tal's openigs and middle game tactics goto chess games .com and download his games in PGN file. Michael Tal should be studied from a powerful tacitcal point of view. The student needs combinational understanding as well as kneen tactical vision, that's what I'm developing myself.

royalbishop
Rasparovov wrote:

Study his games as a psychological factor. If there is a very confusing sacrifice, play it, at your level it should win very often since it's easier to attack than defend. Or that's what people learn first from what I know.

I learned to defend before i could attack. When most of play our first couple of games we get mated early an often so you have to defend as your opponent at that stage has a pretty good idea when your confused and attacks without caution.

When i learned how to stop those silly attacks then i could learn how to attack. Then like most of us we fell in love with the attack and forgot how to defend and we lost games to blunders. At this moment is where most beginners on chess.com are now. Asking questions how to learn an opening.

royalbishop
Irontiger wrote:
WinchenzoMagnifico wrote:

Like when to intuitively know if a speculative sacrifice will prove effective against a human opponent?

If I knew it, I would already be a titled player.

Alas, no way... You have to practice, practice, practice.

We all want to know what we read would work on our opponents, this is one of the reasons why Chess.com has unrated games. When nobody wants to play me in an unrated game i go to live chess  as i do not care about that rating at all. I suggest 5 minute game or longer. I use it experiment with new openings that i created based on methods from book to get into situations like you are talking about here.

NimzoPatzer

Turn of your engine and simply enjoy the sacs, try to find a defense yourself, you probably won't, now imagine having Tal in front of you and a clock running.

Tal's games are beatiful, Tal played practical chess, not computer chess.