"If (Black) is going for victory, he is practically forced to allow his opponent to get some kind of well-known positional advantage."

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Source : Mikhail Tal (2011). “Tal-Botvinnik 1960: Match For the World Chess Championship”, p.1, SCB Distributors

Mikhail Tal

#Victory Quotes #Black Quotes #Opponents Quotes

“I've always been passionate about fashion.”
“She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say 'when.'”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Between being praised and persecuted condoned and condemned I might understandably have become bewildered particularly at the brand of ethics sometimes displayed by the staunch defenders of Christianity. But of one thing I am sure: I am sure that I fought not only for what I earnestly believed to be right but for the truest kind of religious freedom intended by the First Amendment the complete separation of church and state.”
“You know, I've virtually never been chatted up in my life, it's true.”
“The most obvious and yet the oldest and most stubborn error on which the appeal of inflation rests is that of confusing â€˜moneyâ€™ with â€˜wealthâ€™â€¦Real wealth, of course, consists in what is produced and consumed: the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the houses we live in. It is railways and roads and motor cars; ships and planes and factories; schools and churches and theaters; pianos, paintings and books. Yet so powerful is the verbal ambiguity that confuses money with wealth, that even those who at times recognize the confusion will slide back into it in the course of their reasoning.”
“There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.”
“Donâ€™t aim for perfection, aim for success.”
“I really started trying to get my act together in August of 2002.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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