Mikhail Tal Quotes About Chess

Quotes about: Chess

• 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

  Dark, Psychology, Opponents

• 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.

  Mikhail Tal

  Games, Feelings, Chess

• Some sacrifices are sound; the rest are mine

  Mikhail Tal

  Sacrifice, Sound, Chess

• There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine

  Mikhail Tal

  Sacrifice, Chess Game, Two

• Quiet moves often make a stronger impression than a wild combination with heavy sacrifices.

  Mikhail Tal

  Moving, Sacrifice, Stronger

• Botvinnik's right! When he says such things, then he's right. Usually, I prefer not to study chess but to play it. For me chess is more an art than a science. It's been said that Alekhine and I played similar chess, except that he studied more. Yes, perhaps, but I have to say that he played, too.

  Mikhail Tal

  Art, Play, Chess

• Fischer is the greatest genius to descend from the chess heavens.

  Mikhail Tal

  Heaven, Genius, Chess

• Just as one's imagination is stirred by a girl's smile, so is one's imagination stirred by the possibilities of chess.

  Mikhail Tal

  Girl, Imagination, Chess

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

  Mikhail Tal

  Play, White, Degrees

• It is difficult to play against Einstein's theory -on his first loss to Fischer

  Mikhail Tal

  Loss, Chess Game, Play

• Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is a knight!

  Mikhail Tal

  Women, Knights, Chess

• I have always thought it a matter of honour for every chess player to deserve the smile of fortune.

  Mikhail Tal

  Player, Chess, Matter

• 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.

  Mikhail Tal

  Sacrifice, Artist, Thinking

• 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!'

  Mikhail Tal

  Moving, Games, Chess Game

• 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

  Mistake, Errors, Games

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

  Mikhail Tal

  Trying, Technique, Chess

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

  Mikhail Tal

  Simple, Games, Chess Game

• For pleasure you can read the games collections of Andersson and Chigorin, but for benefit you should study Tarrasch, Keres and Bronstein.

  Mikhail Tal

  Learning, Games, Benefits

• 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.

  Mikhail Tal

  Kings, Moving, Long

• I go over many games collections and pick up something from the style of each player.

  Mikhail Tal

  Player, Games, Style

• The cherished dream of every chessplayer is to play a match with the World Champion. But here is the paradox: the closer you come to the realization of this goal, the less you think about it.

  Mikhail Tal

  Dream, Thinking, Play

  Mikhail Tal (2011). “Tal-Botvinnik 1960: Match For the World Chess Championship”, p.9, SCB Distributors

• Many Chess players were surprised when after the game, Fischer quietly explained: 'I had already analyzed this possibility' in a position which I thought was not possible to foresee from the opening

  Mikhail Tal

  Player, Games, Chess

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

  Mikhail Tal

  Chess

  Source: www.chess.com

• Chess isn't football or hockey.

  Mikhail Tal

  Football, Hockey, Chess

  Source: www.chess.com

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