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maiyaa11

From Yuri Averbakh's New York Times obituary: "In his autobiography, he wrote that great players fall into six categories: killers, fighters, sportsmen, people who like to play games, artists and explorers. All of the world champions came from the first four groups, he said. He put himself in the sixth category — that of an explorer."

How would you define yourself as a chess player? What about the players you particularly admire?

Avii0034

Person who like to play games, artists.

Morfizera

Sportsmen, people who like to play games, (wannabe) artist and explorer. Maybe a little fighter. Def no killer (unless we are talking about mosquitos and cockroaches). 

maiyaa11
maiyaa11 wrote:

From Yuri Averbakh's New York Times obituary: "In his autobiography, he wrote that great players fall into six categories: killers, fighters, sportsmen, people who like to play games, artists and explorers https://9apps.ooo/. All of the world champions came from the first four groups, he said. He put himself in the sixth category — that of an explorer."

How would you define yourself as a chess player? What about the players you particularly admire?

I got this,,,.

wizardKM

He was referring to "great" players, so...his categories don't apply to most of us, unfortunately...as for the second question of thus forum topic, the qualities I most admire would be the "Artist" category and the "Explorer" category.