It’s Your Move: daily chess puzzle #248

Black to play and win

Spiridonov v Tal, Tbilisi 1969

Solution

I make an exception for Tal, especially, as here, where the position is a mess. Black won by 1…e2! 2 Re2 Ng4! and several more tactics: my engine tells me this wins, but so do other moves- I suspect I could write chapters, which isn’t my aim – seeing 1…e2 and 2…Ng4, or equivalent strong messes like 1…b5 and 1…e4 isn’t hard: I’ll leave the lines to those readers who are interested. The game is in Megabase.