Wow! You would think he played on this site. As it is hard to get away from not playing.
He also described how i got hooked very well. I just knew when saw the game i had to play. Once i had the set in my hand the first couple months. I stay awake in dark and use any light i could find and practice. Sometimes hours would go by without me knowing it.
senor_ananas thank you 
I can't post my favourite passages because I don't have time to rewrite the whole book, but I will post some more. This book, although well-known, should be even more known. I hope I won't be sent to jail for copyright infrigement :)
2 Things i am sure i will get that book and some others. I just need to find an online site that may have a good copy. Any idea?
The other your taking the words for your own or making a profit from and this is a Group for topics on Mikhail Tal. So if they did find out they would be smart to list the books for sale with a discount. They would not want to do anthing to an admirer of him. They give you friendly message informing you on topics to post that would be ok in this group.
In the first chapter titled, "My first Steps", Tal writes...[and I paraphrase...]
The Journalist asks, "...recall your first game..."
Chess Player. I played in a Simul against a master, young Ratmir Kholmov and I won as it seemed to me, combinative style.
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Ouch that is nasty!
Thanks for tip of the book - just ordered it.
In my teens in late 60's I remember Tal became a favourite. Maybe played a game a year since then. Now a retired citizen am to recapture and take up chess for real again - and am sure Tal will inspire. Tal is like the Bill Gates of chess for me. It's kind of interesting how chess games become eternal wisdom for anybody to share easiliy, you don't need technology like video or audio recording to share that - just chess notation.
I have thoroughly enjoyed this Chess Youtube Bio of Mikhail Tal
The Life and Chess of Mikhail Tal
First sentences of "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal" by Mikhail Tal.
JOURNALIST. Well, now, 'Shall we begin?'. Did you think, on first sitting down at chessboard, that you would at some time play a match for the World Championship? Incidetally, what do you recall of your first game?
CHESS PLAYER. Did i think ... Probably not. Matches for the World Championship are fairly rare events, and from the physical point of view is simply not possible for many chess fans to take part in them. I say fans, because, after all, even professional are chess fans.
But about my first game. When one of us first play 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.
Something similar, though less harmful, occur in chess. You have just been shown that the knight moves like the Russian letter Γ, the bishop diagonally, the castle (note, the castle, not the rook) in a straight line, while the queen likes her own colour. You lost the first game. But at some time, if your father or your elder brother or simply an old friendwants to be kind to you, then you win, and as a result feel very proud of yourself. A few days pass, and suddenly you involurantily begin to sense that, without chess, there is something missing in your life. Then you may rejoice: you belong to that group of people without a natural immunity to the chess disease ...