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

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How Important Is Confidence When You're Young?

Reddit said that you spoken about losing to Magnus being hit on your confidence. So is there some aspect about that 2010 match that's not just about Magnus figuring stuff out, but just a hit on confidence? Like how important is confidence at that level when you're both young and like firing out all cylinders? Well, it's not just a problem. with me, this is the problem everybody has. against Magnus because what happens is they're somehow able to save positions where they're much worse in miraculous ways. And more and more, the more and more times that happens, it starts adding up and it just affects you in a way that it's very, very hard to overcome.

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