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Quotes from Life and Games of Mikhail Tal — Mikhail Tal

1936–1992

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To play for a draw, at any rate with White, is to some degree a crime against chess.

Life and Games of Mikhail Tal (1997)

Later, I began to succeed in decisive games, perhaps because I realised a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but so was my opponent.

Life and Games of Mikhail Tal (1997)

When one of us first plays chess, he is like a man who has already caught a dose of microbes of, say, Hong Kong flu. Such a man walks along the street, and he does not yet know that he is ill. He is healthy, he feels fine, but the microbes are doing their work.

Life and Games of Mikhail Tal (1997)

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