“我得到過的最好建議”精選集

世界排名第一的國際象棋棋手

????我先前的教練西蒙·阿格德斯特恩曾是挪威最好的棋手。我10歲時，他對我說過一段很簡單、但非常管用的話：他說，我應當不斷地打破新的屏障。我當時下得還算不錯，但總是習慣用同樣的開局和對局。他鼓勵我朝遠看。最初我并不成功，但過了一段時間，我開始采用其他的開局了。有一次我在錦標賽中慘敗，很是沮喪。第二天，我就決定嘗試一種對我而言全新的開局方式——法蘭西防御，并贏得了我在很長一段時間內最漂亮的一場勝利。西蒙的建議讓我更加全面。我不再固守某一種模式，而是變得變化多端。

Magnus Carlsen

No. 1 ranked chess player in the world

????My former coach, Simen Agdestein, used to be the best player in Norway. I was 10 years old at the time, and he said something that was simple but very helpful: He said I should break new barriers all the time. I was doing relatively well, but I had fallen into a pattern of playing a lot of the same openings and positions. He encouraged me to look further. At first I was not successful, but after a while I started to play other openings. I suffered a bad loss at a tournament and was extremely upset. The next day I decided to try a completely new opening for me -- the French Defense -- and won my best game in quite a while. Simen's advice made me versatile. I don't just stick to one set, but many.