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Mikhail Tal (Born 9 November 1936 - Died 28 June 1992)

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DRAWN GAMES ARE EXCLUDED FROM "BLUNDERS" AND "AVG ERROR" DATA COLUMNS
YEAR AGE MOVES ANALYZED WHITE PTS PERCENT BLACK PTS PERCENT TOTAL PTS PERCENT BLUNDERS per 1000 MOVES AVG ERROR per WHITE MOVE AVG ERROR per BLACK MOVE AVG ERROR per MOVE COMPLEXITY – ALL GAMES COMPLEXITY – WINNING GAMES
1956 19 1059 78.26 52.63 66.67 13.08 11.10 9.67 10.67 22.11 32.09
1957 20 904 72.22 69.44 70.83 5.59 12.97 7.45 10.01 23.95 33.92
1958 21 1829 79.73 72.22 76.03 10.19 9.46 9.91 9.70 21.30 26.38
1959 22 2021 70.24 63.42 66.87 10.75 10.63 11.14 10.88 27.70 34.16
1960 23 1206 78.00 63.04 70.83 2.90 8.84 9.25 9.00 20.58 28.97
1961 24 1894 71.62 51.22 60.90 9.16 10.44 10.59 10.51 20.29 26.24
1962 25 1626 60.35 56.06 58.07 10.79 11.12 10.70 10.92 17.80 26.79
1963 26 1737 86.77 64.71 75.74 8.85 10.06 8.50 9.43 22.88 29.23
1964 27 1889 86.11 66.67 76.39 5.80 9.87 10.07 9.95 20.63 24.99
1965 28 610 61.54 59.09 60.42 3.19 11.94 10.90 11.56 21.86 36.84
1966 29 1453 77.14 67.24 72.66 11.41 10.56 9.38 10.15 25.75 33.01
1967 30 1039 73.91 59.52 67.05 7.51 7.68 7.80 7.72 20.60 28.28
1968 31 1198 60.00 59.26 59.65 13.78 8.99 10.49 9.65 18.32 24.61
1969 32 1399 58.07 46.77 52.42 13.05 13.49 8.85 10.83 21.36 31.94
1970 33 822 81.58 56.67 70.59 8.45 8.55 9.78 8.99 22.37 27.91
1971 34 1645 72.86 61.43 67.14 7.24 10.14 10.14 10.14 19.93 29.25
1972 35 1395 80.65 70.31 75.40 8.98 7.21 10.02 8.35 21.73 26.70
1973 36 2591 71.30 57.76 64.29 7.49 10.06 9.88 9.99 21.13 31.82
1974 37 1587 76.92 72.73 75.00 5.46 8.36 6.80 7.78 22.82 28.75
1975 38 1448 59.38 59.68 59.52 10.43 8.27 10.95 9.99 20.64 27.35
1976 39 1505 58.33 54.55 56.52 1.99 9.43 9.48 9.45 16.43 30.08
1977 40 1901 69.77 62.50 66.27 7.14 8.69 9.78 9.07 22.41 28.19
1978 41 673 64.71 56.67 60.94 9.62 8.93 6.98 8.31 15.77 24.72
1979 42 1833 70.51 58.75 64.56 13.21 9.23 9.04 9.15 18.35 27.69
1980 43 1201 54.84 42.00 49.11 13.86 10.62 9.37 10.01 17.48 35.77
1981 44 1366 75.00 64.52 69.84 2.85 11.30 9.81 10.73 21.28 27.65
1982 45 1636 72.62 61.63 67.06 6.84 9.08 8.70 8.91 20.14 28.11
1983 46 1261 62.50 48.21 55.36 9.26 8.12 8.92 8.47 16.43 29.74
1984 47 1287 59.09 54.29 56.62 5.11 8.39 8.49 8.42 15.81 21.22
1985 48 1428 63.89 56.76 60.27 10.96 8.00 9.69 8.81 17.73 25.13
1986 49 413 69.23 57.69 63.46 8.97 7.94 7.06 7.51 18.45 26.23
1987 50 1117 74.19 51.67 63.12 3.51 8.25 8.62 8.38 22.25 30.37
1988 51 1099 56.45 48.39 52.42 10.02 8.48 9.85 9.13 20.08 37.43
1989 52 740 50.00 47.73 48.78 12.20 10.83 9.20 9.68 16.74 29.21
1990 53 893 64.00 52.50 58.89 12.17 9.49 11.57 10.26 16.32 31.82
1991 54 921 57.14 56.52 56.86 9.30 9.20 11.69 10.64 19.48 29.29
1992 55 226 75.00 25.00 50.00 0.00 7.85 23.75 13.41 20.09 32.37