30 Quotes by Mikhail Tal

...That is my biography from the first day of my chess life to the present.JOURNALIST. And your plans.PLAYER. To play!

Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without errors, or as they say 'flawless game' is colorless.

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.

To play for a draw, at any rate with white, is to some degree a crime against chess.

There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones, and mine.

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.

If you wait for luck to turn up, life becomes very boring.

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

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