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

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I think it's all psychological actually more than anything else. Because I didn't feel like I was doing anything differently, but I was also not making the mistakes that I was making before. It's very weird because when you think about chess, it's a mental game. But we all are capable of beating Magnus, all of us, but we all have very, very bad scores against him. And so you feel very negative about what's going on when you were able to beat him or not necessarily win the game.

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