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The Gazette Montreal, Quebec, Canada Saturday, October 28, 1961
Bled Tournament
Mikhail Tal, in his game with young Fischer in the 2nd round at Bled (which we published a few weeks ago), played the opening like a tyro and had a hopeless situation in a dozen moves. “Chess” Magazine gives the explanation:
“Tal thought precisely 55 minutes over his sixth move in a standard defense. It was obvious that he was not calculating the moves, but speculating along psychological lines. At last he decided on the most fashionable variation—he played his move, stood up, glanced at the chessboard, and said aghast, to the nearest reporter: ‘I've gone wrong over the order of moves!’ The forty cigarettes he smoked for his next forty moves did not help him: Bobby even had the occasion to entrance the spectators with a queen sacrifice.”
