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