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 Copy Share Image
I have always thought it a matter of honour for every chess player to deserve the smile of fortune. — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
I think that the FIDE leaders have to reconsider the current drawing rules - their advantages aren't very clear, but their shortcomings are obvious.… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share
I'd like to always be romantic in chess. Sadly, this doesn't always work like that. — Mikhail Tal Copy Share
“I prefer to make my annotations 'hot on the heels', as it were, when the fortunes of battle, the worries, hopes and disappointments are… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share
Later, I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but also my… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share
Playing in your home city is very special. You feel the support and attention. When everything goes well, it's very great, but when it… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share
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 Copy Share
I can take care of myself! But the "external barriers", my opponents, do indeed concern me. — Mikhail Tal Copy Share
“Young man, consider that the train has left, and all you can do is loudly slam the door in farewell.” — Mikhail Tal Copy Share
“...That is my biography from the first day of my chess life to the present. JOURNALIST. And your plans. PLAYER. To play!” — Mikhail Tal Copy Share
Naturally, the psychological susceptibility of a match participant is significantly higher than a participant in a tournament, since each game substantially changes the over-all… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share
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… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share
In my games I have sometimes found a combination intuitively simply feeling that it must be there. Yet I was not able to translate… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share
