Larry

Larry Kaufman is a chess grandmaster. He went to school at MIT and won the American Open Chess Championship at 19 years old. After graduating, he worked a job in stock options. After taking a break from chess, he learned shogi and soon became the best shogi player in the United States. Later, he began to work on the development of powerful chess engines like Rybka and Komodo. He earned his grandmaster title in chess at the age of 60 when he won the World Senior Chess Championship in 2008. 

When you play chess, you learn to play the position you're in and not dwell on what you should have done five moves ago. In life, you want to deal with the situation that you have now and not try to correct the past. Just because you did something stupid yesterday, don't dwell on that. Just try to make good decisions today. A lot of people let their bad decisions on the previous day influence what they do now. Play the situation that you're in now. Don't relitigate what you should have done yesterday.

Everybody has bad games and bad tournaments, and you basically learn that there's a lot of luck in everything. Whatever you do in life, there will be good and bad luck, and you can't just give up because you have a bad result or something bad happens to you. You just have to learn that in most cases, it's just bad luck, and it isn't necessarily a sign that there's something wrong with you personally. So, if you have a bad chest result, maybe you were feeling sick, or maybe your opponents happen to be playing unusually well. It just happened that they played the moves that were the most troublesome for you. So you learn not to take everything bad that happened as a as an indication that there's something wrong with you personally.