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Mikhail Tal has 25 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Without technique it is impossible to reach the top in chess, and therefore we all try to borrow from Capablanca his wonderful,…
• Later, I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but…
• Some sacrifices are sound; the rest are mine
• There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine
• You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for…
• It is difficult to play against Einstein's theory -on his first loss to Fischer
• When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I…
• Botvinnik's right! When he says such things, then he's right. Usually, I prefer not to study chess but to play it. For…
• It's funny, but many people don't understand why I draw so many games nowadays. They think my style must have changed but…
• Just as one's imagination is stirred by a girl's smile, so is one's imagination stirred by the possibilities of chess.
• I like to grasp the initiative and not give my opponent peace of mind.
• To play for a draw (at any rate with White) is to some degree a crime against chess.

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