Mikhail Tal Citas

• 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

  Mijail Tal

  Dark, Psychology, Opponents

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

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  Waiting, Luck, Boring

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• Hay dos tipos de sacrificios: los correctos y los míos

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  Sacrifice, Chess Game, Two

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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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  Girl, Imagination, Chess

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• Quiet moves often make a stronger impression than a wild combination with heavy sacrifices.

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  Moving, Sacrifice, Stronger

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• Planning anything is hopeless.

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  Planning, Hopeless

  Source: www.chess.com

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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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  Games, Feelings, Chess

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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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  Simple, Games, Chess Game

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

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  Queens, Knights, Bishops

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• It's funny, but many people don't understand why I draw so many games nowadays. They think my style must have changed but this is not the case at all. The answer to this drawing disease is that my favorite squares are e6, f7, g7 and h7 and everyone now knows this. They protect these squares not once but four times!

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  Thinking, Squares, Games

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• Cuando le pregunté a Fischer por qué no había jugado cierta jugada en nuestra partida, me contestó: 'Bueno, ¡te reíste cuando la escribí!

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  Moving, Games, Chess Game

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• Some sacrifices are sound; the rest are mine

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  Sacrifice, Sound, Chess

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• I like to grasp the initiative and not give my opponent peace of mind.

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  Giving, Mind, Opponents

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• Jugar a las tablas (al menos con blancas) es hasta cierto punto un crimen contra el ajedrez.

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  Play, White, Degrees

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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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  Mistake, Errors, Games

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

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  Heaven, Genius, Chess

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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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  Art, Play, Chess

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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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  Sacrifice, Artist, Thinking

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• Sin técnica es imposible llegar a lo más alto en ajedrez, y por eso todos intentamos tomar prestada de Capablanca su maravillosa y sutil técnica.

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  Trying, Technique, Chess

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• Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is a knight!

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  Women, Knights, Chess

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• I'd like to always be romantic in chess. Sadly, this doesn't always work like that.

  Mijail Tal

  Ajedrez

  Source: www.chess.com

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• Es difícil jugar contra la teoría de Einstein -en su primera derrota ante Fischer

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  Loss, Chess Game, Play

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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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  Kings, Moving, Long

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• Muchos ajedrecistas se sorprendieron cuando después de la partida, Fischer explicó tranquilamente: "Ya había analizado esta posibilidad" en una posición que pensaba que no era posible prever desde la apertura

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  Jugador, Juegos, Ajedrez

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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.

  Mijail Tal

  Dream, Thinking, Play

  Mikhail Tal (2011). “Tal-Botvinnik 1960: Match For the World Chess Championship”, p.9, SCB Distributors

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