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

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Is It Possible That Hans Is a Kind of Bobby Fisher Level of Genius at the Chess Board?

It's very interesting to me because there are other stats from that 72 page report that chest.com compiled which in essence say certain other junior players basically have peaked that they're not likely to improve further. There's a point where you should look at yourself like practically like what is the actual empirical data over the past year of how much you have improved at a particular thing. In his favor or against him. Definitely in his favor because for example if I go online and play against the computer let's just say I go play against the offsh tomorrow. I'm going to play a very certain type of opening strategy try to keep the board closed and maybe hope to get lucky. Now computers have

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