It has been awhile since I played a higher rated player I think he was rated 1575 the highest rated player for me online this time this one I did not duck and run but I figured I'm playing well enough. From the get go I grabbed the lead but didn't want to lose I had had my hands full and my opponent was out looking for fish to fry he had won nine straight victories but I had stopped him in his tracks like a vehicle. I'm wiped out now but I managed to get a draw from the highest rated chess player I have seen. I need a power nap now not later but now.

Remembering The Game

The genius types can remember each and every move of a particular game. Their minds are set up that way. But the grandest set up is the chess playing machines that is how good they are this is nothing new it has been around for quite some time now. My games are not so meticulously recorded but emotionally they can be known written about in detail as best as I can recall and referred to in the future of an appreciation well earned. I didn't get....well wait yes I did get his name it was a rated game on the Yahoo chess games a well regulated online chess game. My point is that yesterday's game was making my heart pound and I thought I was beyond such emotions from an old game.

So You Think Chess Is For Nerds?

Guess again. You're are wrong if you do. Consider the news when a major break through in chess occurs or when a child prodigy emerges beating the experts at the game gaining prominence as the next up and coming grand master in chess. Take a bow to the new born chess king the new kid on the block. I didn't take the game lightly in my last one. The excitement was too much. I might as well been in a SWAT situation in a life or death story rather than the last chess game I played about an hour or less ago. Recuperation was required before I could get a hold of my nerves. I was getting mowed down the first problem was making an error and handing over a pawn. Okay it was just a pawn I could recoup I figured just maybe. I felt some confidence. But I blundered and found out I set myself up which I did by getting out maneuvered losing my bishop where he proceeded to mow down my pawns one by one methodically as I made a one stab long shot chance to coordinate my two rooks for an assassination attempt small chance but worth the while I figured. Magnus currently the number two ranked chess player in the world can calculate nine moves in advance as to what he will do. I'm not going to give anyone first hand advice on that matter because I haven't arrived at that advanced technique of chess play but I could beat a computer when it told me it had three plays or moves locked in and would checkmate me no matter how well I moved to counter. As I was losing pieces I assembled my rooks in place used my king to block an escape route for his king and used my stationary pawn to trap his king as I forced his king with the use of my two rooks to capitulate or check mate his king. It worked. I could not go on to play another second game my nerves were shot my physical and mental energies were depleted and I needed a power nap otherwise I would have fallen on my face just to save my life if the house were on fire.

Smell The Apple Blossoms Forget About The Losing

And such a picture of an apple blossom can help relieve the intense drama and stress of the game too. I would feel this same pressure when I participated in talk shows at times especially when I was a mere inexperienced talk show caller to a major radio station in San Francisco; the guest speaker was Norman Mailer the writer of the century in my opinion and the host was Ronn Owens. Larry Cummins was also listening from afar but I had no ideal until he mentioned my encounter with this talk show discussion on Norman Mailer's new book at the time about Lee Harvey Oswald a potential assassin of JFK. Larry Cummins was one of my coworkers at a major postal facility in the undisclosed city where I worked. It was like I was talking to God Norman Mailer was always the thinker and writer to me when I was growing up a highly respected man with a view. I was in complete awe with shock and in an intense dramatic mode of awareness pretty much like I was in my last game of chess just an exhibition game but this one I did not lose. As dramatic as this chess was it was merely just one game out of the 1266 or so games of chess played since 2009. Today is just another game of chess online an insignificant event but yes what a bang for the buck a game of chess online can do for drama.

Smell The Apple Blossoms Forget About The Losing

This photo I drew from did not come out as well as this photo I took. I do solemnly swear under perjury of oath that this photo is the one I took and it is not a copy right infringement. In fact anyone has my permission to use it not that my permission is required I'm not sure what the law says but anyone using this picture is more like a compliment to me but be known to the public that this photo is an original photo I took it came out looking good how does it look to you? Some of my trace drawings come out looking better than the actual photos I draw from. So what does these pictures have to do with chess? It is merely a good way to get my mind off chess and smell the roses but in this case the apple blossoms. It doesn't take me long to get over the lost of a game or even a chess game slump of successive games lost in a row. I'm living a full life not just in chess.
I do not live for tragedy. Heaven is here right here for me on earth. When it is time for me to leave earth I will figure that out what to do when the time comes or I'll plan it out now before I pass on. It could be thirty years from now however that I will pass on who knows? I know I will ask the search engines! But I am not going to hold my breath on this one.

In winning and losing one must invest a great deal of emotion namely the agony of defeat and the thrill of victory an old saying said for years on the Wide World Of Sports a television series way back in the 60's. It is true not just in sports games but chess games as well for mostly there must be a winner or a loser and an occasional draw. I'd say for most of us none of us like losing and when we don't get our way we can feel in a rather negative way the beast within us is riled to a vast array of emotions anger being one of them. For this gorilla it was either an anger management class or certain death by fire squad unfortunately for him he faced the firing squad.

Marble Chess Board With Matching Pieces

It was out there on display but too good to chance an accident so away it went into safe storage. It's not for sale and there's no money to make in chess to pay for any one's bail and there are too many games in which I fail let me say I'm better off to take a long trip so I will sail before another tough opponent comes along and I get nailed. What I just said makes little sense but if it rhymes then it is good to go.

If I could live among much less clutter and spare the fat and consume far less butter I could take my picture and hear the shutter and live without fear and bad nerves and the shudder you could hear me speak much clearer without the mutter and I wouldn't have to search anymore for words that rhyme with clutter, butter, shutter and mutter and oh yes the other was shudder.

Rereading Chesstigers Comment

This is more for me than anyone else. His comments I do buy the only worth while comment which makes good sense. Right now I'm a physical wreck at this time I cannot walk well and my foot is at a discomfort waiting for my medicines to kick in. But yes Chesstiger makes good sense I would like to memorize his comment and keep it for food for thought for in grasping for an answer when I last lost moments ago I was looking for answers. Notice when I'm close or near or even at a winning streak things sound so upbeat with me. But for now I really don't know I did lose at a few silly games but yes I can blame it on something external. I know what it is what is wrong. I need more of a physical training or more time bicycling when I'm not doing anything else physical

When I See Chess Patterns I See This

The basic elementary moves in chess if played enough will produce patterns as any recreational chess player will tell you. As in chess you want to pick the patterns you have seen in the past that will work for you. The same is true for works of art. You want to see the patterns in the art inherent in a photograph and pick and chose the best lines the best borders with which to drawl. Drawl your conclusions and be the winner. If Magnus Carlsen or chess legend and former acquaintance Walter Browne could see the lines and borders on a computer screen and draw from those lines they would produce masterpieces of art on paper or canvas and Pablo Picasso would roll over the age of computer graphics in art has long been in existence even a beginner like me who could never produce art work can now see the patterns never before seen in my youth. At times I can see the light at the end of the tunnel; the more games I play the better patterns I can see not just in chess but also in art in the form of drawing through tracing. Through tracing we are studying and learning from the masters let us move on toward a greater dynasty!

True Confessions Of A Chess Addict

You can see that I'm involved in an on going battle of mind control. I'm obsessed by chess emotional and totally. I cannot quit. There is the dark side of the game and you can quite clearly see the negativity of this game as it consumes my inner soul and eats up my total being like a cancer. When the telephone rings I will not answer it during a rated game I'm immersed in a game of concentration so compelling that tears often well up in my eyes the pressures to win aggravate me as pain and/or discomfort in my foot is brought on probably by the demands to win and not to suffer from the humiliation of defeat. Death before capitulation and often in games I will fight on to the last man take no prisoners. I've been known to make threats that in my life after I die in a game that I will be back and revenge and retaliation will be bitter sweet. At times I will die by my own sword rather than give up a fight to the finish. Yes I have told you the ugly side the dark side of chess and now you have it. It isn't all fun and games. A seasoned chess player has died a thousand deaths only to be reborn again and I say to parents tell your children not to do as I have done I lived my life in sincere misery in the house of on line chess.

The Addiction

Yes I am an online chess addict and forever reason I cannot get on to my server I get all kinds of reasons but don't understand them. Last night I was speaking with Dr. Bill Wattenberg one of my regular long standing radio talk shows and as I volunteer talk show caller to this news station I was asking him what he knew best about the genius in those he had met. He's about physics his background and well as electrical engineering. I'm getting the what will I do next feeling now that I know I cannot get on to my online chess games of which I've logged on some 1250 games of rated games and no I'm not improving in my rating but the point is that it is entertaining much in the way gambling is for those who go to those casinos and pay through their nose so to speak the price it takes to satisfy their addictions a bargain by no means in my book. Playing on line chess for me is a bargain as it was playing for free. But I am an unknown place I can't get on my server and chess might just have to go into another direction a mistake of mine or computer glitches or malfunctions . Knowing this I'm climbing the walls search for a solution.

Christmas Day The Mental Battles Do Not Cease

Bobby Fischer never crossed my path except he made a name for himself but given the chance if he were alive I'd say yes I'd like to meet him with a few questions as for what questions I'd have for him is unknown I'd have to make my inquiries spontaneous. This is how I make the acquaintances of most of the celebrity types. Nevertheless Bobby Fischer was a loner. Get that? A loner! Of all the strangers or new rated chess players he played and interacted with he was called a loner. So I imagine he ever got few phone calls but no that's impossible after all he was idolized by millions of follows was he not? He was. I only recently called up a chess expert not quite as famous for playing chess. I'll leave it be for now.

Getting Beaten By An Attractive Asian Woman

Chinese women are indeed advancing in the field of chess and making strides. When I'm on a losing streak and feeling depressed this famous actress Zhang Zi Yi comes to my mind like right now and I look at her and my depression isn't as bad. She's a winner and she helps make me forget being a loser very fast. She looks so gorgeous with her hair hanging down. This will sound very strange to you but if an opponent were to beat me badly in chess then it would be my preference to be beaten by someone who looks as attractive like this woman Zhang Zi Yi . Why this is so I do not know maybe it is because they as females of Asian ethnicity have been oppressed for too long of a time and justice beckons for them to be present and counted for in all justification. I'm not even close? Please tell me then.

Yes My Nerves Are Galore Still And Forever

This line for a title isn't new but it does apply to this moments situation having just come off a game. It is said no two chess game can ever be duplicated I think I shall google this saying or statement whether it is true or not. I do know the nervous feeling is the same at times I'm open at various times in a game to be this way. Look at the time. The chess addiction can hit a poor fellow like me at any time at this time is ungodly. It's two thirty in the morning not a creature is stirring only my son's pet hamsters named Emily and Christopher. It is the mouse that doesn't stir during Christmas remember my fellow Christians? I'd like to see the hands of all those Christians out there in blog readership land. Okay so you can't show your hand but you can always make a comment. Make one. Go ahead. Make my day.

But back to the game I just had. There was no caffeine but I was primed with a true yearning to play a game of chess. It's the old chess bug. My opponent's rating was almost the same as mine but I'm playing at those hours in the morning which are not mine usually. And my foot is at a discomfort. I haven't noticed my hand shaking but my wife during various times has noticed although not lately. The blogs written by champion chess players are not all that much different my believe is that too are only human susceptible to human emotions including feeling their nerves at various times eating away at them. Those that tell you they never or rarely get nervous well....what can I say. Are they lying? Whatever you are willing to believe is fine with me. I will tell you the honest truth. This blog testifying in writing on how I get butterflies and nervous is the big lie. I never get nervous and I never lie. Oh my golly gosh. What am I saying? Noticed my language is polished in real online chess they use filters to cover up the obscenities which is a nice feature when going online frankly I don't care to see it myself I like to feel I can rise above it even though I'm not anywhere near championship chess. You would think that there is a filter for this blog for rambling okay I get off here right now for this entry.

It Takes All Kinds The Pieces Of Art

I would always imagine or think up of chess pieces made of solid gold twenty four carets almost solid gold for chess pieces. A solid gold horse was one of the pieces purchased once upon a time. These are the only types of horses I can afford unlike a real horse which cost a ton of expenses for boarding and feeding and so forth. Plastic is the cheapest or most affordable when on the lamb and tight for an expense account. But with plaster of Paris and little of that compound or material packed into those little hollow cavities of those chess pieces you have a do it yourself chess set. These illustrated steel pieces will last a life time plus many other lives if prudently passed along the family lines an heirloom so to speak make mine solid gold. It exists only in my mind it would in all likelihood never happen with me I am not an aristocrat accustomed to expensive jewelry and what not.

Time For The Cat

The domestic cat they can cure depression and no one likes losing more than I do it's the nature of the beast in chess. After all it is widely known now that the cat has replaced the dog as the best bet for human companionship. What else is there to do when in a chess slump or any game slump? Yes like Joe Montana said to me if you hate losing more than you like winning what else is there left to do? He didn't say the latter part to me on the air on a talk show radio KGO 810 about what else is there left to do but I know what he meant. Joe Montana was a win it all the champion in the NFL the legend to the San Francisco Forty Niners and it was he who gave me pointers in winning and losing. Let's get practical. I am on another one of those roller coaster losing streaks and Montana isn't around for me to consult with or compare notes with. It is the day of the cat bring it on to listen to the purr of cat is enough to take my mind off the losing part. Why prey tell do cats have more purring sessions from my very own observations than they do intense yowling and fighting sessions? Is it just my imagination? I distinctly hear and see my private collection of cats as being contented and full of purr not full of agitation and pain and suffering for they the cats are the winners and I may and I will learn from them. If only I can or could play chess like a cat I'd have the whole thing licked!

The Trash Talkers

Sometimes I just will not give up and I pay the price. But this one paid off he kept repeating for me to resign but I plowed on much to all the criticism I get. It really doesn't pay I confess to keep on playing when the odds of turning it around is zero but I did it the game exploded in my opponents face and despite my resolved commitment to silence in a trash talking situation my diction from my deepest silence did utter that this game of a turn around despite virtually no chance to win that this turn around game and my refusal will be remembered a long time from now. You can see at this time in the morning I can barely move or walk and at times only one hand is hitting this keyboard and in my mind I'm all over the place. Look at my sentence structure it should be edited but you should know my struggles are not exaggerated. It is essential to have total concentration to find that zone where no wrong can be made. This is what an online chess addict lives for that rare one time moment to come again. The waiting can take forever and sometimes never at all. But no this morning was not the day of the zone but the day the trash talker got hit with sticky goo and gunk in his face this is a day in the mornings to live by it definitely helps make up for all the bad ones.

Losers Don't Stay Down For Long

Not many of us can score a perfect record most of us are losers there are very few champions that can go undefeated in their career. So most of us will have to deal with losing at one time or another in our lives. If you have been reading my blog of late I can say I found a good piece of chocolate today and I made good use of it. This opponent was roughly the same chess rating as myself a lowly 1102 but wait! He had only one win and more than ten loses. I told my wife I have an excellent chance of beating this opponent and in fact I played him three straight games for ratings until finally I said enough is enough. But he was like a good piece from the chocolate box this was the one guy I could beat especially after seeing his win/lost ratio in his profile I was like a hungry shark looking for a feeding frenzy when I looked up his profile. I figured he wanted to oppose me for three games because you can't get better at chess unless you play opponents better than you; they serve to toughen you up and yes it it harsh and not pleasant when they give you lessons one must learn to absorb the loses and figure out what they did wrong to make a right. I love a good story for this is living life to the fullest hearing and telling the best ones.

Antidepresants For When You Lose

Life is a box of chocolates you never know what you are going to get(a line from Forrest Gump). You could get the wrong one and you never know for sure in most cases unless you are a champion chess player whether you will win or lose. Cats are a good source an antidepressants for when you pick the wrong opponent and you get beaten; cats are a good source to heal your soul they make good companions.

Chinese Women Advance In Chess

My last game I was so nervous I left after the first game I had won my feel for drama was that intense; capitalizing on a second game to win would have been mine had I not been so nervous. I needed to catch my breathe and calm my nerves. Look at this Chinese woman. She is stunningly attractive. She's an actress having starred in the well received movie "Crouching Tiger". I don't know if she plays chess probably not but the point is that Chinese women from China are advancing in the game of chess in quite a fashion it isn't a secret. In a line up of the most attractive Asian women contestants I chose this woman pictured here Zhang Zi Yi now would you not say more people will be playing chess? Checkmate! My opponent I had just played was slightly rated higher than me and we were playing a rated game. With her hair let down she is all the more lovely. She definitely has that aristocratic look about her and she does move around in those circles. Should there be a separation between women and chess? Never!

You Can Play Chess When It Rains

Yes indeed an avid player of chess can do it indoors when it rains which is what is happening right now where I am. I'm in California but I'm not saying where exactly I do like being anonymous golly my mind is going all over the place. Yes I lost a whole series or number of rated games but I gave my opponents something to work for I'll be back I'm not folding and taking on other hobbies not just yet. Yes I get depressed when I lose and I do hate it but if it gets too serious I have Kaiser which can treat depression but this is child's play compared to the bigger sport of which I played and still follow. And that game is tennis. Before word processors were around I use to bang away with the old IBM Selectric typewriter of my adventures in tennis. So writing a blog on chess is nothing new it is inherent within my character. I can't play worth beans when it comes to the competition but I know I can make the game more exciting and out there in the media did not Rocky or Sylvester Stallone make the world of boxing all the more popular with this runaway moves depicting the sport of boxing? Yes he did. And I can do the same for chess let me blog.

My Opponent At Last On The Ropes

And when I reached that pinnacle finally what did I do? Blunder. Do I hear thunder? God should be angry at me for blowing a victory but then again you know why I played an exhibition game I knew I'm not at my best at this time of the morning. Nevertheless it was a heart wrenching finish but he played well he didn't deserve to lose it he fought so hard all the way hanging on to every ray of hope to win not to lose. However my preference was to have won this is the way I feel at the time. Machines have no feelings. Life to humans and animals is all about feelings the human issue cannot be forsaken write it down. I already just did.

Where Oh Where Is My Cat

The fourth straight lost in a row I call that a slump. And the cat isn't around it is gone. Things could be much worst but we won't invite tragedy which is what is in the news each and every day. Bernie Madoff''s son age 42 or so just did himself in now that is tragedy. And as usual a few of the big celebrity people are diagnosed with terminal illnesses. I've known people involved in fatal accidents so losing a bunch of chess games pales to the real news of tragedy or just plain bad news and I shall savor the fact that at the present I'm just having a mere chess slump not an experience of losing my mind and mental health in a real war like many of the Vietnam veterans I have known who came back to civilian life all messed up in their heads from an unpopular war. For this I am grateful I have not experienced that part of life. Yes I could read blogs of war stories but no I don't think so but they are there for anyone interested. I've seen and heard enough war stories from those in combat from the Vietnam war as it is it is time to move on and get on with life as it is.

Cats Can Cure Depression

A bad lost in chess can be cured by a cat yes indeed but I cannot find him he took off but he comes back. I've lost a few in a row now chess should be outlawed for those who are too emotional but I can hack it after all I spent decades since I was an adolescent playing tennis matches and small time tennis tournaments even running into the famed tennis pro Brad Gilbert when he was knee high and coming up in the world of tennis a game far more popular than chess. So I am made of the right stuff when it comes to competing the losing and winning deals. It just goes around and around like a wheel these winning and losing deals. I only ask of God for him or her to deal me his best hand and let me deal with it in the most intelligent way with of course lady luck. Prayer can help it doesn't hurt. I noticed highly skilled chess player whose goal is to reach a chess rating of 2000 has my blog "Nerves Galore" as one of his reading blogs on his list on chess. This is a good thing he must be smart God willing may he go beyond his goal of 2000. I wish him well. My demeanor is not always negative for as my psychology teacher once lectured no one but no one can be happy all the time unless they are crazy.

I noticed a few more of my hand drawn images have been posted when one clicks on images after googling "Nerves Galore". You can then click on those pictures or images and it refers you back to this web site. That's cool. It pleases me. Defeat is not so deafening after all there is a bitter sweet rhythm to this game of chess after all. Despite my loses today life is still good.

Blunder

I showed my blunder instead of the thunder this makes me wonder as I remain from the the top of the hierarchy under. For an early morning game playing a 1345 or so player I didn't too bad except for the blunder or error which almost always loses the game in a tight game it can make the difference and it did from the beginning of the game I hung in there but not quite good enough. At least I got the first part of this entry in a rhyme; chess should be for everybody even the rap artist. I would not mind at all if the popularity of chess shot on upward. Why not? It is something to think about.

Wow!

I did it! At this hour so early and without caffeine! I won! I just had beaten a 1375 or there about a higher rated player and my foot and walking is something else to be desired. I trapped his queen it was so cute. It was an exhibition game but I do mind losing them just as well even though they don't count in the ratings. My opponent made a strategic error not a hand me over error mistake.
This is what we chess players live for the unexpected victory despite all the loses we have suffered. It gives us a ray of hope. For this game at this hour I had beaten the odds even though it wasn't for ratings. My opponent was moving with lightning speed which can be intimidating just as is the opponent who trash talks during a game which is very annoying and distracting but during an online game I've learned; the disable feature of online chess games is a blessing.

You may wonder who this man is. Is he serious? What does Wikipedia say about him? He looks like a space cadet kind of sort of. Is he an astronaut his jacket looks like the kind worn by NASA? This is a blog on chess perhaps he thinks of himself as a story teller on the basics of chess after all he looks like he might have that look of thought inherent in the thinking process. I'd say he looks like he has been around the block more than once. I hope he knows what he is doing because chess is a very serious game you can laugh if you must but there is nothing comical about what is necessary for application for the fundamental workings of a chess game played online. Hold all joke telling sessions and make room for an online game of chess of the more than a thousand games played online this man in an interview has stated he has never played the same player for the most part. New players come lined up with the proper qualifications to train this player preparing him to move it on out and that is no rap.

Yes My Nerves Are Galore Still And Forever

You cannot call me a liar. The higher I go well....I wish I was lying and as I may or may not go up in ratings the effect of falling down from such heights is an expectation but God oh God if only it were not true and I could ascend beyond my most wildest expectation. What is this? I dream the impossible dream and a low life dirt bag scum of the earth of Chinese descent has visions of respectability and a wild eye hope of having his ethnic people rise up to a world class economic power of the highest magnitude? Any such dream is indeed from a wild eye madman any such dreamer should be sent directly to a psychiatrist for a complete mental overhaul.

The last player was not rated that much higher than my ratings but they can beat me with regularity in the mornings without my being under the influence of that dreaded drug known as caffeine. It is not morning now not at all. I hate falling down. No one in their right mind does. Guess what? Football players do it all the time.

Tetering Above My Peak

Do we all do it? I'll go as far as caffeine my only performance enhancing drug without it I'm a goner. As far as the other illegal drugs I know nothing of them count me out of the very few anti caffeine advocates I've enough problems justifying my use of this terrible caffeine drug better if possible to go without any and use one's own genuine powers. Yes I know the real world isn't that simple. Losing the exhibition games isn't so bad when I don't rely on caffeine to pick me up but up at that rating where a boast of caffeine can make the difference. I use to depend on caffeine when playing tennis and it got me there to a height beyond my natural abilities and then there are beliefs that this could lead to serious consequences. What am I going to believe? If it's legal I can go with it. It's been a long time or no time I can remember that anyone called me a goody good two shoes kind of guy but as you can see I am one. I don't like that label so good for me I cannot recall too many people complaining about me being this way. My highest rating was at a temporary 1430 I may never reach a chess rating that high a rating of 1223 is the highest I've been in many months so what can I say? This is a class D rating and would you believe there are ratings as low as a class J? Everyone one has a chess rating whether they play chess or not. What's yours? Having spoken by phone in recent days to chess expert and grandmaster Walter Browne I'd say for me I was ready and willing to make contact with a chess rating somewhere roughly speaking or writing above in excess of 2500 or 2600 a rating of which very few of us will ever see. I attempted to jar his memory as to when and how we became acquainted but I could not expect even an expert chess grandmaster to remember a routine day in 1975 or there about
but don't get me wrong they do have remarkable memories they have to if they are expected to climb so high in rankings and ratings in chess. The news of chess is only of my opinion.

Magnus Carlsen Is An Influence

Magnus Carlsen according to an interview says he isn't discipline plays when he wants to play chess and chooses to do so when he wants. To do what you want when you want sounds good enough to me. If only events could work out that way things would be much simpler. An elder told me instructed me advised me I should never write anything about anyone. This is very good food for thought I shall take this bit of advice very seriously.

Twenty seven on line game of chess rated didn't happen this day. That would be grueling and I'd be living in hell. I did that a number of occasions not many but more often than not. I'd like Magnus Carlsen's approach to chess.

The nerve of me had the gall to call up Walter Browne the great and call him by his full name including....well....I do intend to protect his privacy he trusted me in the beginning when I first met him and certainly I will return the favor. I never did write about or mention much of Walter. It wasn't a dream however we were talking chess more or less and a new game of chess right now would put me into a mess I confess.

The Elite Can Set An Example

Magnus Carlsen should be the one. His philosophy is live and let live. The comments readers list on Magnus must be right on the mark he isn't a normal thinking chess moving player being of the highest level of play even out playing the established chess legends. To sum up his success in becoming a number one ranked chess player is a process of great thought his low key thoughts about himself.