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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
Mikhail Tal
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Mikhail Tal
Age: 55 †
Born: 1936
Born: November 9
Died: 1992
Died: June 28
Chess Composer
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Mikhail Nekhemievich Tal
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I can take care of myself! But the external barriers, my opponents, do indeed concern me.
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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 king is not in danger.
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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 like to grasp the initiative and not give my opponent peace of mind.
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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 that there is anything bad in such a feeling no artist or musician is indifferent to the reactions of the public.
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I believe most definitely that one must not only grapple with the problems on the board, one must also make every effort to combat the thoughts and will of the opponent.
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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 thought processes into normal human language.
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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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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!'
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Naturally, the psychological susceptibility of a match participant is significantly higher than a participant in a tournament, since each game substantially changes the over-all position.
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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 doesn't, you might as well turn off your phone: the advices seem endless.
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Fischer is the greatest genius to descend from the chess heavens.
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Just as one's imagination is stirred by a girl's smile, so is one's imagination stirred by the possibilities of chess.
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First, how to sac my queen, then rook, then bishop, then knight, then pawns.
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I have always thought it a matter of honour for every chess player to deserve the smile of fortune.
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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. Artificial drawing of the lots is detrimental for everyone.
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