Mikhail Tal
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Mikhail Tal was a Soviet Latvian chess grandmaster 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 histor
Tal in 1962
Tal lived in this apartment building in Riga.
Tal in 1959
Tal in 1968
Alexei Shirov
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Alexei Dmitrievich Shirov is a Latvian and Spanish chess player. Shirov was ranked number two in the world in 1994.
Mikhail Tal
…grandmasters with his aggression. It is also notable that he adopted a more sedate and positional style in his later years. In the modern day, Latvian Alexei Shirov has been most often compared to Tal. In fact, he studied with Tal as a youth. Many other Latvian grandmasters and masters, for instance Alexander…
Alexei Shirov, 2010