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

— Mikhail Tal Life and Games of Mikhail Tal (1997)

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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.

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