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Chess Quotes by 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.
- 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
- 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 one
- 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 wrote it down!'
- 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…
- Just as one's imagination is stirred by a girl's smile, so is one's imagination stirred by the possibilities of chess.
- To play for a draw (at any rate with White) is to some degree a crime against chess.
- 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…
- 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…
- For pleasure you can read the games collections of Andersson and Chigorin, but for benefit you should study Tarrasch, Keres and Bronstein.
- 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…
- Quiet moves often make a stronger impression than a wild combination with heavy sacrifices.
- 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…
- As long as my opponent has not yet castled, on each move I seek a pretext for an offensive. Even when I realize that the…
- I go over many games collections and pick up something from the style of each player.
- 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…
- Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is a knight!
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