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

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.

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.