Levy Rozman

There's also trash talk.

One sentence by a kid can throw off your prize student.

And I've seen kids just totally disintegrate.

I've seen also my students bully other kids.

My student wasn't that strong

but they're verbal warfare, which is not allowed, but goes unnoticed.

And at the highest level, both sides are involved in a battle that they both foresee 99% of the time.

That's the scary part is that you both see the exact same thing.

It's very rare you play a move and I didn't see it.

It's that I mis-evaluated it.

I saw the move could be played, but I missed something three or four moves deeper.

And you play that move and suddenly you're excited and I'm nervous.

But all of a sudden...

You make an inaccuracy and now the tide shifts, right?

We could be on totally different planes throughout the game or we could be on the same plane throughout the game.

So it's really fascinating.

Yeah, he gets part of his really dominant reputation, I think, from not letting people get into ultra-theoretical positions.

He just won this tournament, this online tournament, and he said he had a young player strategy.

He had an anti, sorry, a anti-young player strategy.

What's that mean?