1966 Chess Tournament Signed Scoresheet Mikhail Tal win Robert Byrne Havana for Sale

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1966 Chess Tournament Signed Scoresheet Mikhail Tal win Robert Byrne Havana:
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1966 Chess Tournament Signed Scoresheet Mikhail Tal win Robert Byrne Havana

Very rare chess scorecard signed and noted by the eight world chess champion with a win using the white pieces during the 1966 XVII Olimpiada Mundial de Ajedrez in Cuba

Mikhail Nekhemyevich Tal[a] (9 November 1936 – 28 June 1992) was a Soviet Latvian chess player and the eighth World Chess Champion. He is considered a creative genius and one of the best players of all time. Tal played in an attacking and daring combinatorial style. His play was known above all for improvisation and unpredictability. It has been said that "Every game for him was as inimitable and invaluable as a poem". His nickname was "Misha", a diminutive for Mikhail, and he earned the nickname "The Magician from Riga". Both The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Gamesand Modern Chess Brilliancies include more games by Tal than any other player. He also held the record for the longest unbeaten streak in competitive chess history with 95 games (46 wins, 49 draws) between 23 October 1973 and 16 October 1974, until Ding Liren's streak of 100 games (29 wins, 71 draws) between 9 August 2017 and 11 November 2018. In addition, Tal was a highly regarded chess writer.

The Mikhail Tal Memorial chess tournament has been held in Moscow annually since 2006.

Robert Eugene Byrne (April 20, 1928 – April 12, 2013) was an American chess player and chess author who held the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM). He won the U.S. Championship in 1972, and was a World Chess Championship Candidate in 1974. Byrne represented the United States nine times in Chess Olympiads from 1952 to 1976 and won seven medals. He was the chess columnist from 1972 to 2006 for The New York Times, which ran his final column (a recounting of his 1952 victory over David Bronstein) on November 12, 2006.

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