Is it impossible to excel in chess without a CHESS-COACH?
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I do remember crossing the Missouri River, or anything about the long day's journey through Nebraska. Probably by that time I had crossed so many rivers that I was dull to them. The only thing very noticeable about Nebraska was that it was still Nebraska, all day long, Nebraska.
-- Willa Cather, My Ántonia
From Wikipedia: Fischer struggled in the subsequent Buenos Aires tournament, finishing with 8½/19 (won by Viktor Korchnoi and Samuel Reshevsky on 13/19). This was the only real failure of Fischer's competitive career. According to Larry Evans, Fischer's first sexual experience was with a girl to whom Evans introduced him during the tournament.Pal Benko says that Fischer did horribly in the tournament "because he got caught up in women and sex. ... Afterwards, Fischer said he'd never mix women and chess together, and kept the promise."
On January 17, 2008, Fischer died from degenerative renal failure in a Reykjavik hospital.Magnús Skúlason reported his last words as "Nothing is as healing as the human touch."
Life is all about making the right moves. Being an ardent player of chess, this is what I believe. All experienced chess players know that every game has to end to begin a new one. That's why it's important to give the younger generation a chance to play and win!
Nice kids do win, eventually
One of Byrne's chess students related later why he played on: "First of all, you have to remember that in 1956 no one knew that Bobby Fischer was going to become Bobby Fischer! He was just a very promising 13-year-old kid who played a great game against me. When it got to the position where I was lost, I asked some of the other competitors if it might be a nice thing to let the kid mate me, as a kind of tribute to the fine game he played. They said, 'Sure, why not?' and so I did."
Man manavendra wrote:
WINNERS are too BUSY to be SAD,
too POSITIVE to be DOUBTFUL,
too OPTIMISTIC to be FEARFUL,
and too DETERMINED to be DEFEATED.
Do you think that the first GM on this earth had a coach. Well, I would like to quote from the book "The Blind Side" of which a movie with the same name has also been made. The quote refers to the poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson:
"Courage is a hard thing to figure. You can have courage based on a dumb idea or a mistake, but you are not supposed to question adults or your coach or your teacher. Because they make the rules. Maybe they know the best or maybe they don't.It all depends on who you come and where they come from. Didn't at-least the six hundred guys think of giving up and joining with the other side.I mean The Valley Of Death! That's pretty salty stuff. That's why courage is tricky, should you always do what others tell you to do. Sometimes you might not even know why you do something. I mean any fool can have courage. But honour, that's the real reason you do something or you don't. Its who you are and maybe who you want to be. If you die trying for something important then you have both honour and courage and that's pretty good. I think that's what the writer was saying, that you should hope for courage and try for honour and maybe even pray that the people telling you what to do have some too".
That was very inspiring. =) However, you can't compare current situation with last time. Today, most chess players had a coach.
I am not an IM or GM or a titled player at all but i know that on my own i have brought myself from being horrible in chess to being able to match Titled players for a while in a game and even be even with them after 20+ moves. And i havent used a chess coach just me by myself. In a few weeks i am confident that i will have the ability to earn my Title and at least be a CM