Tal Chess Quotes
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Tal Chess Quotes & Sayings
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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.
— Mikhail Tal
Some sacrifices are sound; the rest are mine
— Mikhail Tal
I see my own style as being a symbiosis of the styles of Alekhine, Tal and Fischer.
— Garry Kasparov
I'm very anti-religious because religion tends to disembody you.
— David Cronenberg
Playing it safe is sometimes the most dangerous thing you can do.
— Tony Cane-Honeysett
My style is somewhere between that of Tal and Petrosian
— Samuel Reshevsky
I have always thought it a matter of honour for every chess player to deserve the smile of fortune.
— Mikhail Tal
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.
— Edward Hopper
Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is a knight!
— Mikhail Tal
There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine
— Mikhail Tal
...That is my biography from the first day of my chess life to the present.
JOURNALIST. And your plans.
PLAYER. To play! — Mikhail Tal
JOURNALIST. And your plans.
PLAYER. To play! — Mikhail Tal
Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.
— John C. Maxwell
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
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
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