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Originally posted by heinzkatYeah 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.
He really had a deformed right hand, had he not?
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.
11 Sep 09
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Originally posted by Sam The ShamIf 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.
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.
Edit: yes, at 6 minutes 45 seconds it is quite clear.