4 Quotes & Sayings By Mikhail Tal

Mikhail Tal was a Soviet chess grandmaster, the eleventh World Chess Champion. He won the world championship in 1960. Born in 1921 in Leningrad, Tal became the Soviet Union's youngest international chess champion when he won the Soviet Championship at the age of fifteen in 1939. He was named Grandmaster in 1950.

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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. Mikhail Tal
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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 errors, or as they say 'flawless game' is colorless. Mikhail Tal
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...That is my biography from the first day of my chess life to the present. J O U R N A L I S T. And your plans. P L A Y E R. To play! Mikhail Tal