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> [“Young man, consider that the train has left, and all you can do is loudly slam the door in farewell.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-tal/young-man-consider-that-the-train-has-left-and-all-you-can-do-is/)

[Mikhail Tal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-tal/)

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## More by Mikhail Tal

> [Some sacrifices are sound; the rest are mine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-tal/some-sacrifices-are-sound-the-rest-are-mine/)

[Mikhail Tal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-tal/)

> [I think that the FIDE leaders have to reconsider the current drawing rules - their advantages aren't very clear, but their shortcomings are obvious.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-tal/i-think-that-the-fide-leaders-have-to-reconsider-the-current-drawing/)

[Mikhail Tal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-tal/)

> [Planning anything is hopeless.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-tal/planning-anything-is-hopeless/)

[Mikhail Tal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-tal/)

> [I'd like to always be romantic in chess. Sadly, this doesn't always work like that.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-tal/i-d-like-to-always-be-romantic-in-chess-sadly-this-doesn-t-always/)

[Mikhail Tal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-tal/)

> [“I prefer to make my annotations 'hot on the heels', as it were, when the fortunes of battle, the worries, hopes and disappointments are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-tal/i-prefer-to-make-my-annotations-hot-on-the-heels-as-it-were-when-the/)

[Mikhail Tal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-tal/)

> [Later, I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but also my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-tal/later-i-began-to-succeed-in-decisive-games-perhaps-because-i-realized/)

[Mikhail Tal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-tal/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-tal/playing-in-your-home-city-is-very-special-you-feel-the-support-and/)

[Mikhail Tal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-tal/)

> [Without technique it is impossible to reach the top in chess, and therefore we all try to borrow from Capablanca his wonderful, subtle technique.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-tal/without-technique-it-is-impossible-to-reach-the-top-in-chess-and/)

[Mikhail Tal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-tal/)

> [I can take care of myself! But the "external barriers", my opponents, do indeed concern me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-tal/i-can-take-care-of-myself-but-the-external-barriers-my-opponents-do/)

[Mikhail Tal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-tal/)

> [“Young man, consider that the train has left, and all you can do is loudly slam the door in farewell.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-tal/young-man-consider-that-the-train-has-left-and-all-you-can-do-is/)

[Mikhail Tal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-tal/)

> [There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-tal/there-are-two-types-of-sacrifices-correct-ones-and-mine/)

[Mikhail Tal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-tal/)

> [“...That is my biography from the first day of my chess life to the present. JOURNALIST. And your plans. PLAYER. To play!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-tal/that-is-my-biography-from-the-first-day-of-my-chess-life-to-the/)

[Mikhail Tal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-tal/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-tal/naturally-the-psychological-susceptibility-of-a-match-participant-is/)

[Mikhail Tal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-tal/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-tal/i-will-not-hide-the-fact-that-i-love-to-hear-the-spectators-react/)

[Mikhail Tal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-tal/)

> [In my games I have sometimes found a combination intuitively simply feeling that it must be there. Yet I was not able to translate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-tal/in-my-games-i-have-sometimes-found-a-combination-intuitively-simply/)

[Mikhail Tal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-tal/)

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