00:00Being very thorough analysts of your own games, and you have to be very honest, brutally honest, even relentlessly honest with your own games, don't try to please yourself with some commentaries,
00:16oh, this is here I made a bad move because, you know, somebody was talking loudly, or my opponent looked at me, just wasn't very pleasant.
00:30Don't look for any excuses.
00:32It's all about you, about your moves, about the quality of your moves, and better you understand the nature of your mistakes,
00:39better you understand the nature of your game, good and bad moves, better are your chances of making fast improvement.
00:56While being a professional player, I had a habit that you have to glance at your game almost instantly,
01:09when it's over, you have to analyze it while it's all fresh in your mind.
01:13You try to understand what's happening in the game, and then you can set it aside because you have another game probably next day,
01:20and then you have to go back, and you have to find out what did go wrong,
01:27but also you have to find out what did go wrong with your opponent, because if you won the game,
01:34it doesn't mean that you haven't made a mistake.
01:36Most likely it's because your opponent made the last mistake.
01:39And it's very important that you find these mistakes, opponents' mistakes and your mistakes.
01:47The greatest danger is what I call gravity of your past success.
01:53If we win, we're always tempted to consider it.
