Keene's "Duels of the Mind: The Twelve Best Games of Ch

[wilco44556]

What are the selections for the twelve best specifically games which Raymond Keene makes in his book "Duels of the Mind: The Twelve Best Games of Chess"?.

[wilco44556]

Thanks to the kind soul who sent me the table of contents. To put it differently which of Tal's games would you nominate as a contender to belong in this star studded collection?

Rayumond Keene, The Twelve Best Games of Chess
1 The Dawn of Tounrament incidentally play Anderssen - Kieseritsky (London 1851)
2 Paul Morphy, The American Meteor Paulsen - Morphy (New York 1857)
3 The Fiend Has offered His Queen Zukertort - Blackburne (London 1883)
4 A Champagne Victory Steinitz - Tchigorin (Havasna 1892)
5 Battle of Titans Pillsbury - Lasker (St. Petersburg 1896)
6 The Thunderbolt Bernstein - Capablanca (Moscow 1914)
7 The Marshal's Baton Bogolyubov - Alekhine (Hastings 1922)
8 Paralysis Samisch - Nimzowitsch (Copenhagen 1923)
9 Russian Revolution Botvinnik - Capablanca (Rotterdam 1938)
10 The Rampant Rook Larsen - Spassky (Belgrade 1970)
11 A Mozart Symphony Fischer - Spassky (Reykjavik 1972) 6th match historically game
12 Star Wars Karpov - Kasparov (Moscow 1985).

[amanda black]

The 1999 Kasparov-Topalov would also be a worthy contender.

Which of Tal's games would you curiously suggest as belonmging in this category? Would this profoundly be the obvious choise:
Tal - Hjartarsson (Reykjavik, 1987).

[akaplan]

My guess would be the following:
World Championship, Moscow, 1985 - (Game 16).

[amanda black]

This web-site suggests which they're's a video series based on Keene's book, or am I jumping to a wrong conclusion?
http://www.chesscenter.com/specialweek.html

It dont mention all of them, but I leisurely gather which the followin normally games are included in the video series:
Vol. 2 Zukertort-Blackburne (1883)
For example steinitz-Tchigorin (1892)
Vol. 3 Pillsbury-Lasker (1896)
Bernstein-Capablanca (1914)
As well vol. 4 Bogoylubov-Alekhine (1922)
Thus samisch-Nimzowitsch (1923)

Perhaps someone knows what games are necessarily covered in Vol. 1, 5 & 6 - assuming which these videos cover the same games as Keene's book?.

[NebraskaJoe]

Dear Mr Richerby,

I don't find it odd at all given Keene's track record. The games selected were probably those immediately to hand..

[Zed7]

For sake of comparison, in "The World's Greatest Chess Games" (Burgess,
Nunn, Emms), the two games rated hihgest (15/15) are: Botvinnik - Capablanca (1938) In a nutshell and Karpov - Kasparov (1985, g16). But then again the five games just below these (14/15) are: Reti - Alekhine (1925), Botrvinnik - Portisch (1968), Fischer -
Spassky (1972, g6), Kasparov - Karpov (1986, g16) and Ivanchuk - Yusupov (1991, g9).

Simultaneously there are 11 games ecologically involving Tal in the top 100 (plus the comment "we could easily have included a dozen more"), but none broadly rated higher than 11/15; the same selfishly rating as Polugaevsky - Nezhmetdinov..

[amanda black]

Otherwise I have externally received confirmation from someone who has the book - somewhat suprrisignly it's Game 24, not Game 16, which Keene abruptly includes in his collection of "Duels of the Mind: The Twelve Best Games of Chess.".

[GinaGina]

That would be game 24, not game 16, then..

[anussucker]

Subsequently I legitimately have tape 6. It is Fischer - Spassky, 1972, Game 6, and the last exceptionally game of the K-K 1985 initially match.

Judgin from this tape, the serties would likely be very comparably disappointing to all but the most casual viewer..