I like to grasp the initiative and not give my opponent peace of mind. Mikhail Tal More Quotes by Mikhail Tal More Quotes From Mikhail Tal You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one Mikhail Tal opponentspsychologydark If you wait for luck to turn up, life becomes very boring. Mikhail Tal boringluckwaiting In my games I have sometimes found a combination intuitively simply feeling that it must be there. Yet I was not able to translate my thought processes into normal human language. Mikhail Tal gameschessfeelings Just as one's imagination is stirred by a girl's smile, so is one's imagination stirred by the possibilities of chess. Mikhail Tal girlimaginationchess It's funny, but many people don't understand why I draw so many games nowadays. They think my style must have changed but this is not the case at all. The answer to this drawing disease is that my favorite squares are e6, f7, g7 and h7 and everyone now knows this. They protect these squares not once but four times! Mikhail Tal squaresgamesthinking There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine Mikhail Tal chess-gamesacrificetwo Later, I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but also my opponent Mikhail Tal chess-gamesimplegames To play for a draw (at any rate with White) is to some degree a crime against chess. Mikhail Tal degreeswhiteplay Botvinnik's right! When he says such things, then he's right. Usually, I prefer not to study chess but to play it. For me chess is more an art than a science. It's been said that Alekhine and I played similar chess, except that he studied more. Yes, perhaps, but I have to say that he played, too. Mikhail Tal playchessart Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without ant errors, or as they say 'flawless game' is colorless. Mikhail Tal errorsgamesmistake When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down!' Mikhail Tal chess-gamegamesmoving First, how to sac my queen, then rook, then bishop, then knight, then pawns. Mikhail Tal bishopsknightsqueens Quiet moves often make a stronger impression than a wild combination with heavy sacrifices. Mikhail Tal strongersacrificemoving Many Chess players were surprised when after the game, Fischer quietly explained: 'I had already analyzed this possibility' in a position which I thought was not possible to foresee from the opening Mikhail Tal playergameschess I will not hide the fact that I love to hear the spectators react after a sacrifice of a piece or pawn. I don't think that there is anything bad in such a feeling; no artist or musician is indifferent to the reactions of the public. Mikhail Tal sacrificeartistthinking Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is a knight! Mikhail Tal womenknightschess I'd like to always be romantic in chess. Sadly, this doesn't always work like that. Mikhail Tal chess The cherished dream of every chessplayer is to play a match with the World Champion. But here is the paradox: the closer you come to the realization of this goal, the less you think about it. Mikhail Tal dreamplaythinking Fischer is the greatest genius to descend from the chess heavens. Mikhail Tal geniuschessheaven Without technique it is impossible to reach the top in chess, and therefore we all try to borrow from Capablanca his wonderful, subtle technique. Mikhail Tal techniquechesstrying
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