Author: Uri Blass
Date: 22:11:23 05/14/02
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On May 15, 2002 at 00:52:20, Uri Blass wrote: >On May 14, 2002 at 20:13:17, Keith Ian Price wrote: > >>"I have a PhD in psychology. I specialize in 'cognitive' and >>'cognitive/behaviorism'. A loss of concentration is due to being tired, >>fatigued or exhausted or stress by definition." >> >>He said it was due to stress (pressure), not to being tired. You don't seem to >>be disagreeing in your statement (note the words "or stress" that you added). >>Therefore, Mogens and Martin were right, and you were wrong when you made the >>following statement: "A loss of concentration is "tired" or "exhausted", that is >>a psychological fact." >>Also, the disrespect began with your statement, "As usual Mogen, you are wrong:" >> >>I don't find anyone on this board to be "ususally" wrong. >> >>kp > > >Mogen started the disrespect. > >He could say he disagree but saying that there is no evidence in the text for >his claim is wrong. > >losing concentration is some evidence for being tired. > >You can claim that it is not a convincing evidence because it can be result of >other things but I agree with the interpretation that smirin was tired. > >Smirin never thought that the computers were weak so I see no reason for him to >lose concentration if being concentrated is something very easy for him to do. > >People who are more tired find it more hard to concentrate. >It does not mean that it is impossible for them to concentrate so saying that >smirin did not concentrate because of wrong evauation of the position as easy >draw may be correct but it is only one of the reasons. > >Uri I can add that losing concentration was not the only evidence "Well, even though we played only four games per week, which helped me to pull myself together between the games, it wasn’t so easy psychologically. As a result, I lost concentration a few times during the match and it cost me at least 0.5 point " Smirin said that inspite of playing only 4 games per week he did not succeed in not losing concentration. It is clear that his target was to be concentrated and he did not succeed in it. What can be the reason except being tired? I believe that he could concentrate in every single moment but the problem is not to concentrate in a single moment but to concentrate all the time when you do not know the important moments. Uri
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