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His life was far from quiet: it was a firework of frantic gestures and rush actions. His play was far from quiet and thoughtful: it was a duel with sharp lunges and dust-ups, undue sacrifices and traps. “He isn’t human, he is a ball lightning”, said people about Tal. He beat chess idols all to pieces. Botvinnink, Keres, Smyslov, Bronstein, Spassky, Petrosian – Tal defeated them from the first move and before he needed to take a breath. They qualified his style as "amazing", his sacrifices "unreasonable". But there was a tournament in his life which he lost. It was his tournament with the woman he fell in love with at first sight and loved till the last breath.

Russia - 2006 - 52 mn - DV Cam - Colour

Director Marina Orlova Writer Marina Orlova, Marina Sobe-Panek Camera Alexey Gorbatov, Mikhail Iskandarov, Maksim Fedorin Sound Viktor Logvinov Editing Dimitri Verkhatin, Tatiana Matteis

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