Author: Uri Blass
Date: 02:22:34 07/14/04
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On July 14, 2004 at 03:29:12, Russell Reagan wrote: >During the WCCC, and since it has finished, I have seen different attitudes from >the participants. Some say that they didn't do better because of this or that, >or that their opponents were just lucky. That is not the attitude of a winner. >Here is the attitude of a winner. > >http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?376311 > >"The starting point for Junior in this tournament was Graz, from which I >returned with a sense of failure, realizing that I have failed to progress >beyond J8 levels. Still, that was almost good enough to win, so there was hope." > >By anyone else's standards Junior was very successful. Junior scored 9.0/11.0 in >Graz, finished 0.5 points behind the leaders, and did not suffer a single loss. >Yet Amir admits feeling a sense of failure! He takes the blame and makes no >excuses. He remains positive and gets to work. > >That must be how the mind of a champion works. That must be the difference >between a talented chess programmer and a world champion. The target of making progress is indepdenent of the level of the program. Even if I am going to be clearly number 1 I can still feel failure if I fail to make progress. I see no difference between my opinion and Amir's opinion about it. If I get second place with 9/11 in WCCC then it is clearly a success but it is because of previous results and not because my mind work in different way than a champion. I am sure that Amir also did not see second place as a failure in his first or second world championship and he played in more than one tournament before paris 1997. Uri
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