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#330 – Hikaru Nakamura: Chess, Magnus, Kasparov, and the Psychology of Greatness
Lex Fridman Podcast
Why Is Morphe the Best Player in the World?
reddit asked me to ask you about Paul Morphe and why is he a tragic figure in chess. He essentially quit chess there was no competition for him if you think about like Magnus talking about the world championship and feeling like it's not competitive enough so he ended up quitting chess. As far as best ever I don't believe he even says the goat but I still think he's in the top 10 of reusing a criteria of players who were better than their peers by a big big margin" yeah on the topic of gold let me ask about Paul Morpha how good was he uh reddit asked meto ask you about this and and why isHe a tragic figures in chessYeah so
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