Author: Steve
Date: 19:08:34 07/19/00
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On July 19, 2000 at 13:46:24, Dan Ellwein wrote: >Emcee. What defeat was the most painful to you? > >G.K. I lost only one game to Deep Blue. He lost three by anyone else's count. However it was not the defeat itself >that hurt me so much, but my own light-mindedness before the match. Well, it was >still possible to insist on a complete check-out of the computer, but I didn't >do this. This defeat produced a really oppressive impression on me and a long >time had passed before I recovered. And now I am proud that after such a loss in >1997, aged 34, I managed to start anew and in a year's time I began to win all >the tournaments again. Yes, what heroism. Lance Armstrong (who merely battled cancer) and returned to win the Tour de France could no doubt learn a lot from a man who has managed to deal so successfully with the LOSS OF A STUPID CHESS GAME. > >Excerpts from a speech before the students of >The Humanitarian University >St. Petersburg, April 10, 2000.
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