I can concede that a player's mental attitude can be the deciding factor in an event, for instance, a marathon running or even a less strenuous game such as chess.

我承认，一个运动员的心态可能是一个赛事的决定因素，如马拉松赛跑，或甚至是一个不那么激烈的比赛，如国际象棋。

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High overall situation, seeking major event, not the one or two sub - for the final goal of winning chess.

高者顾大局，谋大事，不以一二子为重，终以赢棋为目标。

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The greatest chess event of recent times, the matching of a computer against a human player in 1996, had a male star, the Russian Garry Kasparov.

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Apparently, the same blowups and bad behavior you can catch at your local youth sports event are also evident in chess.

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After losing to a supercomputer at chess, Garry Kasparov created a team event with machines and humans working together against a single computer.

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