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00:00Be ahead of a curve.
00:03When I played chess up to the very end, even at age 40,
00:08it was a very brutal day schedule.
00:16I played a game, five, six hours.
00:19I analyzed immediately after the game.
00:22And then I just spent time preparing for new games.
00:25So it was roughly 10 hours, if not more, of chess every day
00:30for two weeks for the whole tournament.
00:33And I always feel that making mistakes was like a physical pain.
00:38So I could torture myself for being on the wrong side of the assessment,
00:43so just not making the right move.
00:46So probably that was quite an excessive pressure.
00:51And the reason I decided to quit in 2005,
00:59just before turning 42, and still being number one,
01:04is that I just realized that that was the end of this quest.
01:09I was able to win more tournaments.
01:15Don't question about it.
01:16But it was not the same desire,
01:21not the same appetite for new ideas.
01:24It was the end of my journey
01:27in making the difference in the game of chess.
01:36I'm always very cautious in trying to give universal advice,
01:40because we're all different.
01:41But what I know for sure is that each of us,
01:46whether we are more aggressive by nature
01:49or less aggressive or more defensive,
01:52we have enormous resources, enormous potentials
01:56that we don't use.
01:57You have to...
02:00You have to...
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