00:00Greatest accomplishment.
00:07One of the reasons I always feel comfortable with new challenges
00:11is that I learned from my early days,
00:14and that's probably the result of lessons from my mother,
00:21that playing chess was not just about winning or losing.
00:24Of course you have to try to win.
00:25Of course winning is vital.
00:27But on top of all, it's about making the difference.
00:34It's not just winning the game because your opponent made a mistake.
00:38Of course an opponent makes a mistake.
00:40That's why you win.
00:41But it's about coming up with new ideas.
00:43It's always challenging your own excellence.
00:49It's all like competing against your own perfection.
00:55You won, but it does matter.
00:56You look at your games, you find your mistakes, next time you have to do better.
01:02As long as you compete against your own excellence,
01:06you are no longer short of opponents.
01:11I always looked for new ideas.
01:13I always wanted to be ahead of a curve.
01:19When I played chess up to the very end, even at age 40,
01:24it was a very brutal day schedule.
01:31I played a game, five, six hours.
01:35I analyzed immediately after the game.
01:38And then I just spent time preparing for new games.
01:41So it was roughly 10 hours, if not more, of chess every day for two weeks for the whole tournament.
01:48And I always feel that making mistakes was like a physical pain.
01:54So I could torture myself for being on the wrong side of the assessment.
01:59So it's not bad.
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