Tal vs. Your Blogger
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 1:09AM
Dennis Monokroussos in Tal

In this recent post I mentioned Jeremy Silman's reminiscence of Mikhail Tal's trip to the Los Angeles area back in 1988, during which time Tal gave a simul there. I played in that simul, so I was curious to see if I made it into the picture near the top of the article. At first I thought I was, then talked myself out of it, but now think that my initial suspicion was correct. I'm not 100% sure, but think it's 80-90% likely that I'm the guy near the far end of the row Tal is facing, wearing a cap and a dark shirt (or sweater or jacket). The game score may be gone, but at least this little memento survives!

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