Re: Carlsen: 'This victory is a milestone for my career'

Nice read Wael, Carlsen does seem like the man to watch for a while to come.

Indeed Ted
And by the way,how about Botvinnik statement that chess is 99% hard work and study and bearly 1% talant,I do happen to disagree

I would have to agree with him.

Now while agreeing, that 1% is HUGE. Take professional basketball (NBA). You have 1-2% of the league that are truly gifted players, and the rest got where they are by hard work and sacrificing for the team.

Look at MLB, the NHL, and even European football, you have 1 or 2 stand out players on each team, and 20 other guys that work their ass off to play. Then you have 7 billion other people who wish they could play, but simply do not dedicate themselves to their game.

That 1% is the difference between "god like status" for fans, and being a "grinder".

Peter

Well,things stand a little bit different in chess as it's a brain storm game
Statistics: Posted by Dr.Wael Deeb — Sun Aug 05, 2007 10:05 pm