Later, I began to succeed in decisive games, perhaps becaus… - Mikhail Tal

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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.

Mikhail Tal

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Mikhail Tal (9 November 1936 – 28 June 1992) was a Latvian chess player who became the eighth World Chess Champion.

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Native Name: Mihails Tāls • Михаил Нехемьевич Таль

Alternative Names: Mikhail Nekhemievich Tal

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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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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.

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. - Mikhail Tal

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