With practice and time, we can develop the discipline and skills necessary to making bold, winning moves. This is the difference between Winning and Losing

With practice and time, we can develop the discipline and skills necessary to making bold, winning moves. This is the difference between Winning and Losing game. He uses chess but it reminds me of Go. Many people are very proud merely to learn the rules... then comes a long phase (where I am still at) where the game reduces to two people clobbering reach other and somebody wins (mostly by chance). As you move up the ladder, the players are more skilled and the role of chance diminishes. After a certain point (usually called 1 dan), both players are skilled enough to implement the most basic strategies and avoid the most common mistakes. Then it becomes the beautiful game of skill we hear so much about.