Quotes by Mikhail Tal

Mikhail Tal

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.

Kings

Long

Moving

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.

Art

Chess

Play

Chess isn’t football or hockey.

Chess

Football

Hockey

First, how to sac my queen, then rook, then bishop, then knight, then pawns.

Bishops

Knights

Queens

Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is a knight!

Chess

Knights

Women

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

Chess

Genius

Heaven

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

Benefits

Games

Learning

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.

Believe

Effort

Psychology

I can take care of myself! But the “external barriers”, my opponents, do indeed concern me.

Care

Concern

Opponents

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

Games

Player

Style

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Art

Artist

Bad Luck

Believe

Benefits

Bishops

Black

Boring

Care

Chess

Chess Game

Concern

Dark

Degrees

Drawing

Dream

Effort

Errors

Feelings

Football

Games

Genius

Girl

Giving

Heaven

Hockey

Home

Hopeless

Imagination

Kings

Knights

Leader

Learning

Long

Loss

Luck

Matter

Mind

Mistake

Moving

Opponents

Phones

Planning

Play

Player

Psychological

Psychology

Queens

Sacrifice

Simple

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Quotes by Mikhail Tal

Mikhail Tal

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.

Chess isn’t football or hockey.

First, how to sac my queen, then rook, then bishop, then knight, then pawns.

Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is a knight!

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

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

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.

I can take care of myself! But the “external barriers”, my opponents, do indeed concern me.

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

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