You can't avoid mistakes and bad luck. 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 opponents psychology dark If you wait for luck to turn up, life becomes very boring. Mikhail Tal boring luck waiting 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 games chess feelings 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 girl imagination chess 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 squares games thinking There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine Mikhail Tal chess-game sacrifice two 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-game simple games To play for a draw (at any rate with White) is to some degree a crime against chess. Mikhail Tal degrees white play 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 play chess art 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 errors games mistake 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-game games moving First, how to sac my queen, then rook, then bishop, then knight, then pawns. Mikhail Tal bishops knights queens Quiet moves often make a stronger impression than a wild combination with heavy sacrifices. Mikhail Tal stronger sacrifice moving 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 player games chess 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 sacrifice artist thinking Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is a knight! Mikhail Tal women knights chess 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 dream play thinking Fischer is the greatest genius to descend from the chess heavens. Mikhail Tal genius chess heaven 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 technique chess trying
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