CHESS PLAYER

Mikhail Tal

1936 - 1992

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Mikhail Tal (9 November 1936 – 28 June 1992) was a Soviet and Latvian chess player and the eighth World Chess Champion. He is considered a creative genius and is widely regarded as one of the most influential players in chess history. Tal played in an attacking and daring combinatorial style. His play was known above all for improvisation and unpredictability. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mikhail Tal is the 5th most popular chess player (down from 4th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Latvia (up from 4th in 2019) and the most popular Latvian Chess Player.

Mikhail Tal is most famous for his chess playing. He was a Soviet chess grandmaster and the eighth World Chess Champion. He was also a chess writer and a chess coach.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Mikhail Tal ranks 5 out of 461. Before him are Wilhelm Steinitz, Bobby Fischer, Boris Spassky, and José Raúl Capablanca. After him are Alexander Alekhine, Emanuel Lasker, Mikhail Botvinnik, Anatoly Karpov, Tigran Petrosian, Max Euwe, and Garry Kasparov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Mikhail Tal ranks 11. Before him are Mario Vargas Llosa, Yves Saint Laurent, Robert Redford, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Barry Barish, and Amancio Ortega. After him are Ismail Kadare, Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy, Margaret Hamilton, Ken Loach, Valery Legasov, and Harald zur Hausen. Among people deceased in 1992, Mikhail Tal ranks 9. Before him are Grace Hopper, Alexander Dubček, Willy Brandt, Friedrich Hayek, Astor Piazzolla, and Menachem Begin. After him are Olivier Messiaen, John Cage, Francis Bacon, Barbara McClintock, Giovanni Falcone, and Li Xiannian.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Mikhail Tal ranks 3 out of 323. Before him are Sergei Eisenstein (1898), and Wilhelm Ostwald (1853). After him are Mark Rothko (1903), Isaiah Berlin (1909), Mariss Jansons (1943), Mikhail Baryshnikov (1948), Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga (1937), Kārlis Ulmanis (1877), Nicolai Hartmann (1882), Ernst Gideon von Laudon (1717), and Aron Nimzowitsch (1886).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Latvia

Among chess players born in Latvia, Mikhail Tal ranks 1. After him are Hermanis Matisons (1894), Vladimirs Petrovs (1907), Alexei Shirov (1972), Arkadij Naiditsch (1985), Alexander Shabalov (1967), and Dana Reizniece-Ozola (1981).

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