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I’ve seen - both in myself and my competitors - how satisfaction can lead to a lack of vigilance, then to mistakes and missed opportunities.

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...comparing the capacity of computers to the capacity of the human brain, I've often wondered, where does our success come from? The…
Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined…
Capablanca possessed an amazing ability to quickly see into a position and intuitively grasp its main features. His style, one of the…
In general there is something puzzling about the fact that the most renowned figures in chess - Morphy, Pillsbury, Capablanca and Fischer…
Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as…
Chess continues to advance over time, so the players of the future will inevitably surpass me in the quality of their play,…
Chess is mental torture.
Botvinnik tried to take the mystery out of Chess, always relating it to situations in ordinary life. He used to call chess…
For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method…
When your house is on fire, you cant be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in Chess, if your King…
By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion
Enormous self-belief, intuition, the ability to take a risk at a critical moment and go in for a very dangerous play with…

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities. — Graydon Carter
I never really look at life and worry about missed opportunities, — Clive Owen
Life's missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us than those we embraced — because in our imagination they… — Roger Ebert
I went back to work right away [after prison]. I was very lucky — a friend of mine created a job for… — Piper Kerman
I’ve seen - both in myself and my competitors - how satisfaction can lead to a lack of vigilance, then to mistakes… — Garry Kasparov
There is nothing like the start of a season, before all the one-run losses, pitching breakdowns and missed opportunities. Before reality sets… — Michael Connelly
I have remained true to my deepest convictions. I mean the courage of those who are born to be defeated, the weaknesses… — Penelope Fitzgerald
One thing we did well the whole tournament was keep fighting. And no matter what happened the point before, missed opportunity, missed… — Daniel Nestor
Why cry about missed opportunities when you have the ability to smile at opportunities lived? The past has created who you are… — Greg Plitt
What is left unsaid gets in the way of the relationship. What is left unasked-for is a missed opportunity. — Thomas Leonard
Human enhancement is now being driven by military imperatives, at least in the US, because civilian society is more conservative in its… — Jessa Gamble

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