You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player.
Most players ... do not like losing, and consider defeat as something shameful. This is a wrong attitude. Those who wish to perfect themselves must regard their losses as lessons and learn from them what sorts of things to avoid in the future.
Your Soviet players are cheating, losing the games on purpose to my rival, Botvinnik, in order to increase his points on the score. - (to Stalin in Moscow 1936 where he finished in 1st place, 1 point ahead of Botvinnik)
I have not given any drawn or lost games, because I thought them inadequate to the purpose of the book.
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