World Chess Championship 1960

In the World Chess Championship 1960 Mikhail Tal sparked by a race victory against Mikhail Botvinnik the result as a world chess champion.

Valley had qualified by winning in 1959, discharged in the Yugoslav cities Bled, Zagreb and Belgrade Candidates tournament for challenge the world champion in a match. The race for the championship was scheduled for 24 games. Case of a tie after 24 games Botvinnik would retain his world title. The match took place 15 March to 7 May in Moscow. Valley immediately won the first game and extend his lead until the seventh game on three points. Although Botvinnik could shorten by victories in the eighth and ninth game of the residue on a point, but still had to insert three more defeats in the course and finally defeated with 12.5 to 8.5 points. The time made ​​out of character and then outward similarities between valley and Lasker; as in the struggles against Tarrasch and Steinitz Lasker had with valley again the "players" the "Thinker" overcome.