TAL EN LOS POST MORTEM

A memorable vignette on the 1959 Zürich tournament won by Tal

"And then came Tal. He didn’t bother about correctness at all… I have witnessed it in Zürich, the growing unease as he sacrificed a piece or more in every game and won, while afterwards the entire affair turned out to have been highly dubious, if only the others had found the best moves during the game. During analysis it was clear that while Tal had calculated much, much deeper than the average player, he also had a tendency to be extremely optimistic about his own chances. It turned out, in fact, that in these post-mortems, when many hands were grabbing about the board, only Keres was able to hold his own against him. “But my dear friend, what is your reply to this?" and Tal laughing it off: “Who won?”
The King, New in Chess 2006.