Mikhail Tal Simul, Knotty Ash, Liverpool, 18 January 1974

Score: +23, =2 (R. Hallmark, A.N. Other), -2 (S. Pimentil, G. Parsonage)

Photo at Liverpool Chess Club website

Source: Jimmy Adams notes, sent to me by Gerald Hartmann.

List of games (n.b. four games not included)

Mikhail Tal	1-0	Chandler,Walter Robert
Mikhail Tal	0-1	Pimentil,Stephen J
Mikhail Tal	1-0	Ripley,John Michael
Mikhail Tal	1-0	Harris,A
Mikhail Tal	1-0	Bodha,Geerjanun
Mikhail Tal	1-0	Wiseman,James K
Mikhail Tal	1-0	Carleton,John Joseph
Mikhail Tal	1-0	Patmore,Brian S
Mikhail Tal	1-0	Lambert,JF
Mikhail Tal	1-0	Pierce,Peter N
Mikhail Tal	1-0	Bridges,L
Mikhail Tal	1-0	Baines,SJ
Mikhail Tal	1-0	Fox,M
Mikhail Tal	1-0	McCulloch,R
Mikhail Tal	1-0	Beach,T John
Mikhail Tal	1-0	Price,MR
Mikhail Tal	1-0	Boswell,Julian
Mikhail Tal	1-0	Barron,C
Mikhail Tal	1-0	Ridgeway,J
Mikhail Tal	½-½	Hallmark,Raymond M
Mikhail Tal	0-1	Parsonage,Griffith
Mikhail Tal	1-0	Hughes,L
Mikhail Tal	1-0	McInnes,G

Summary of Post-Hastings Simuls, 1974

(From CHESS, March 1974, Vol.39/693-4, p161)

Date	Place	P	W	D	L	Winners
15 January - M Tal	Camden	30	25	5	0
16 January - M Tal	Halifax	30	29	1	0
17 January - M Tal	Teeside	30	30	0	0
18 January - M Tal	Liverpool	27	23	2	2	GHT Parsonage, S Pimentil
19 January - M Tal	Birmingham Lge	26	25	0	1	C Jones
20 January - M Tal	Coventry	45	44	1	0
21 January - M Tal	Ilford	31	25	3	3	GL Campbell, JG Murrell, M Woodhams
15 January - L Szabo	Chester	31	24	4	3	MA Lee, JA Gorman, J Caamano
16 January - L Szabo	Gloucester	44	?	?	?	*
17 January - L Szabo	Birmingham Univ	35	33	2	0
18 January - L Szabo	Brentwood	29	21	6	2	K Escott, D Ayres
19 January - L Szabo	Starcross Sch, London	43	24	15	4	CS Crouch, DA Curnow, JC Pigott, NP Alexander
20 January - L Szabo	London Central YMCA	28	13	9	6	MH Hawley, D Sherman, T Welsh, M Goldschmidt, P Griffin, S Cunliffe
21 January - L Szabo	Univ of East Anglia	44	37	5	2	J Pugh, J Woodburn
15 January - G Kuzmin	Maidenhead	37	32	4	1	P Barnard

* this simul was mentioned at some length in the text of the article but left out of the table for some reason. N.B. I don't believe this table is comprehensive - there were later (1990s) press mentions of simuls given by Tal and Gligoric in Luton in 1973/74 but no further details have yet come to light.

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File Updated

Date	Notes
16 September 2020	First uploaded. 23 of the 27 games.
4 June 2023	Score of Tal 1-0 W Chandler updated to include an alternative (though less credible finish) given in a primary source.