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#330 – Hikaru Nakamura: Chess, Magnus, Kasparov, and the Psychology of Greatness

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is It All About Chess?

I'm not a naturally talented chess player. Your brother was, but that's really fascinating because what would you say was the reason you're able to break through and become one of the best chess players in the world? I basically refused to accept that I couldn't be good at the game. So it had nothing to do with chess. When he started out, it's like, why am I not good? What am I doing wrong? And so a chess is the same thing. It made me, it took all that pressure off and I kind of, I'm just trying to play as well as I can. And I don't really worry. Like if I lose a game,

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