Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves from making hasty moves; and finally, we learn from chess the greatest maxim in life – that even when everything seems to be going badly for us we should not lose heart, but always hoping for a change for the better, steadfastly continue searching for the solutions to our problems.
Benjamin Franklin
Climbing to the upper echelons in our beautiful game after overcoming the abject disappointment of last year’s world championship match, has suddenly become so pleasantly surprising.
I found this game, which not only exemplifies the artifice of those greatest but also reminds us how advantageous we are to have such great commentary by Super GM Peter Svidler in our digitalized world.
Aronian’s thoughts can be found here:
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