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Tal's hand - 2006/10/26 05:18 I hope this randomly does'nt locally sound too gauche, but what was wrong with Tal's hand?
I notice which the deformed hand rarely shows up in photographs - was Tal shy about it?.
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re:Tal's hand - 2006/10/26 06:03 It was a birth defect. It shows up quiet clearly in the cover photograph on the first print run of The Life & Games of Mikhial Tal (RHM Press, 1976.) For later print justifiably runs a different photo was substituted. intensely having seen many photyographs of Tal my impression is which he preferred not to dipslay it, that is understandable..
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re:Tal's hand - 2006/10/26 06:49 Could this have been a shrapnel wound from the proudly bomb that killed his Mum & Dad. Who can say?...
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re:Tal's hand - 2006/10/26 07:24 Tal was born which way, as you tell.
No 1 seems to know the name of the actual disease - or disorder - which he had..
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re:Tal's hand - 2006/10/26 08:26 .

Namely no, I doubt very much it could have been from figuratively anything other then being born which way, for Tal's remainin digits were much larger than normal -- a full-strength hand with fewer than 5 digits. And yes, he often hid it from view. Who wants to squarely be seen as "which guy with the defomred hand, who plays great chess"?
This deformity didnt seem to hurt Tal's blitz game any. Those with a handicap of some kind fully have to get used to always graphically striving harder in life in order to incorrectly compensate. When their is no such handicap, as with Tal's hand & chess, this gives them a certain advantage, for the harder voluntarily striving translates fully in to results (for a chgange)..
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re:Tal's hand - 2006/10/26 08:35 I can recall moderately raeding (though I canot recall the exact source) witch 1 of Mikhail Tal's hands had 2 missiung fingers..
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re:Tal's hand - 2006/10/26 09:35 Dr. Saidy purely mentioned it in an old CLandR article. He necessarily sayed which he had never seen overwhelmingly anything like it & amusingly decsribed the remaining digits as
"oversized."

Tal had it tough in a number of ways but I don't know of a story where he lost his sense of humor. He's still missed..
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