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
More Quotes By Mikhail Tal
Botvinnik’s right! When he says such things, then he’s right. Usually, I prefer not to study chess but... Many Chess players were surprised when after the game, Fischer quietly explained: ‘I had already analyzed this possibility’... Fischer is the greatest genius to descend from the chess heavens.
To play for a draw (at any rate with White) is to some degree a crime against chess.
Without technique it is impossible to reach the top in chess, and therefore we all try to borrow... Just as one’s imagination is stirred by a girl’s smile, so is one’s imagination stirred by the possibilities... When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: ‘Well,... It’s funny, but many people don’t understand why I draw so many games nowadays. They think my style... You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is... In my games I have sometimes found a combination intuitively simply feeling that it must be there. Yet... If you wait for luck to turn up, life becomes very boring.
There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine
Later, I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only... Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is a knight!
Quiet moves often make a stronger impression than a wild combination with heavy sacrifices.
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