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"Later, I began to succeed in decisive games, perhaps because I realised a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but so was my opponent."
Mikhail TalTo play for a draw, at any rate with White, is to some degree a crime — Mikhail Tal
"To play for a draw, at any rate with White, is to some degree a crime against chess."
To play for a draw, at any rate with White, is to some degree a crime against chess.
Mikhail Tal
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Mikhail Tal was a Soviet Latvian chess grandmaster and the eighth World Chess Champion. He is considered a creative genius and is widely regarded as one of the most influential players in chess history. Tal played in an attacking and daring combinatorial style. His play was known above all for improvisation and unpredictability. Vladislav Zubok said of him, "Every game for him was as inimitable an
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Mikhail Tal was a Soviet Latvian chess grandmaster and the eighth World Chess Champion. He is considered a creative genius and is widely regarded as one of the most influential players in chess history. Tal played in an attacking and daring combinatorial style. His play was known above all for improvisation and unpredictability. Vladislav Zubok said of him, "Every game for him was as inimitable an
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"When one of us first plays chess, he is like a man who has already caught a dose of microbes of, say, Hong Kong flu. Such a man walks along the street, and he does not yet know that he is ill. He is healthy, he feels fine, but the microbes are doing their work."
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