Mikhail Tal Quotes About Chess
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For pleasure you can read the games collections of Andersson and Chigorin, but for benefit you should study Tarrasch, Keres and Bronstein.
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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.
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Fischer is the greatest genius to descend from the chess heavens.
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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.
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I'd like to always be romantic in chess. Sadly, this doesn't always work like that.
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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.
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Quiet moves often make a stronger impression than a wild combination with heavy sacrifices.
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Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is a knight!
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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
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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.
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I have always thought it a matter of honour for every chess player to deserve the smile of fortune.
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To play for a draw (at any rate with White) is to some degree a crime against chess.
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It is difficult to play against Einstein's theory -on his first loss to Fischer
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Some sacrifices are sound; the rest are mine
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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.
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There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine
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Just as one's imagination is stirred by a girl's smile, so is one's imagination stirred by the possibilities of chess.
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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.
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I go over many games collections and pick up something from the style of each player.
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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!'
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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
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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
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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.
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Chess isn't football or hockey.
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