00:00And I think towards the end of the dinner, somehow they got word of this, and they relayed the information to me that Magnus wanted to play a private match.
00:08Now, I agreed to play this match, probably I should not have, and actually it has nothing to do with the state of having been out, had a few drinks, anything of that nature.
00:15But the reason that I probably should not have agreed to play this match, and why I very often times reference it as one of the biggest mistakes in terms of competitive chess that I made, is specifically because it gave Magnus a chance to understand my style of chess.
00:30And so for me, after that match, it wasn't even so much that I lost the match with the margin I lost by, but it's the fact that I realized how hard it was to beat him, even once you got the advantage.
00:40And I think for Magnus, he learned that my weakness was openings.
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