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Mikhail Tal blindfold exhibition!

Mikhail Tal blindfold exhibition!

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www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5715

Enjoy

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This is truly amazing. Tal shows us that man's abilities have no limits.

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He really had a deformed right hand, had he not?

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Originally posted by heinzkat
He really had a deformed right hand, had he not?
Yeah there was a picture of it posted some time ago, google might help. Polite descriptions of it are "he had only 3 fingers on his right hand" but in reality it was a lobster claw looking thing, a real horrorshow.

It's a birth defect called ectrodactyly, here's some sample pictures.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectrodactyly. Tal's condition was way worse looking than the examples in the article.

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Originally posted by Sam The Sham
Yeah there was a picture of it posted some time ago, google might help. Polite descriptions of it are "he had only 3 fingers on his right hand" but in reality it was a lobster claw looking thing, a real horrorshow.
If you watch the video, in the end he uses that hand to shake all his opponents' hands, so I was wondering, could not really see it. He still seemed to have quite a strong handshake.

Edit: yes, at 6 minutes 45 seconds it is quite clear.

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can any of you here play blindfold? How hard is it?