8th World Chess Champion Mikhail Tal was famous for sacrifices, even including unsound ones, but once he rejected one that his intuition was begging him to play.
“My intuition insistently kept telling me that the sacrifice had to be correct, but I decided to calculate everything “as far as mate,” spent some 50 minutes, but then in one of the innumerable variations I found something resembling a defense, and … rejected the sacrifice. This was a betrayal of myself, I saved the game only by a miracle after the adjournment.” – Tal in Attack with Tal translated by Ken Neat.
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