In my games I have sometimes found a combination intuitively simply feeling that it must be there. Yet I was not able… — 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 Image
I'd like to always be romantic in chess. Sadly, this doesn't always work like that. — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I can take care of myself! But the "external barriers", my opponents, do indeed concern me. — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
“Young man, consider that the train has left, and all you can do is loudly slam the door in farewell.” — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
“...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 Image
