"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."
— Mikhail Tal

January 1, 1970

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Original Language: English

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Widely attributed to Tal, no known original source. An example attribution is in All the Wrong Moves: A Memoir About Chess, Love, and Ruining Everything (2019), Sasha Chapin