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Chess 05 Jun 1960, Sun Express and News (San Antonio, Texas) Newspapers.com
Championship Chess
By Blake Stevens, United States Expert
Are we coming upon a new threshold in chess style brought about by the defeat of Botvinnik in the recently completed world championship?
In this match, risky play paid off for Tal in more than one game. And if it works for the masters, why not the duffers as well?
The younger international chess stars such as Fischer aand Spassky are noted for their brazen defiance of ultra-sound positional play. Not that they cannot play careful steady chess! But the point is that more points are scooped up if chances are taken, and this holds true on all levels of play.
The Fischer-Tal-Spassky era will give forth amazingly combinative games which will be a pleasure to behold.
