Ants Quote by Mikhail Tal

“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 they say 'flawless game' is colorless.”

Mikhail Tal

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Some sacrifices are sound; the rest are mine

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I think that the FIDE leaders have to reconsider the current drawing rules - their advantages aren't very clear, but their shortcomings are obvious.…

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Planning anything is hopeless.

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I'd like to always be romantic in chess. Sadly, this doesn't always work like that.

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“I prefer to make my annotations 'hot on the heels', as it were, when the fortunes of battle, the worries, hopes and disappointments are…

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Later, I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but also my…

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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…

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Without technique it is impossible to reach the top in chess, and therefore we all try to borrow from Capablanca his wonderful, subtle technique.

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I can take care of myself! But the "external barriers", my opponents, do indeed concern me.

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“Young man, consider that the train has left, and all you can do is loudly slam the door in farewell.”

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There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine

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“...That is my biography from the first day of my chess life to the present. JOURNALIST. And your plans. PLAYER. To play!”

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