Monument to Mihails Tāls

Mihails Tāls (Mikhail Tal)

Riga 1926 – Moscow 1992
Soviet–Latvian chess Grandmaster and the eighth World Chess Champion (from 1960 to 1961)

Discovered: 2001
Sculptor: Oļegs Skarainis, Latvian sculptor
Architect: Guntis Sakne and Liene Šterna.
Located: Vermane Garden
Description:
Bronze bust on a column, surrounded by granite boulders.
Inscription(s):

MIHAILS
TĀLS

World Chess Champion
1960 – 1961
The grateful citizens of Riga
Haims Kogans
Viktors Krasovickis