mikhail tal vs emanuel lasker, who would win, or is it to close to tell

i think it would be an interesting match, both liked to mess with their opponents the whole match, just in very different ways

@imanoob424 said ^

i think it would be an interesting match, both liked to mess with their opponents the whole match, just in very different ways

tal he would bamboozle lasker i think with his fireworks, but wehn it comes to bobby vs tal i think its a forced debate and fischer is miles ahead but not WAY too far

i dont know, tal had a pretty impressive record on fischer, and they were actually really good friends too. i think it was 4-4-5, with the 5 being draws. fischer was probably the better player, but it was close

"4-4-5"

• All 4 Tal wins were from the Bled-Zagred-Belgrade Candidates 1959, when Fischer was 16.
  2 of the Fischer wins were from the 1970 Herceg Novi 5+0 blitz tournament.

"tal.... he IS chess" -Boris Spassky

Plenty of ways to analyze this
this one fairly complex for average person. But method is clearly valid and prediction match reality for match predictioin
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.3233/ICG-160012
on table 8 there is predictions if case you not intereste reading how it was done

chess.com analysis is less math burden based on their accuracy number
https://www.chess.com/article/view/who-was-the-best-world-chess-champion-in-history
Not surprisingly Tal is somewhat better than Lasker. Theory chess was evolving back then still. And competitve scene what not as competitive.

There other similar analysis but hardly any new information can collected from those