Top 5 Mikhail Tal Quotes

There are two kinds 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.

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.

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

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.