"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."
Mikhail Tal

January 1, 1970

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Life and Games of Mikhail Tal (1997)

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