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"I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn’t going to win any more games by being anything else." - Earl Weaver   It’s strange that there’s a difference in how you feel between when you are up against a weaker player and a stronger one.    With the weaker player, you may feel confident, yet due to that confidence of knowing you will be able to beat that player, you start to fear the worst. At the same time, with a weaker player based on your means or stats, you’ll tend to harbor higher expectations of yourself. If you beat them, you need to beat them with conviction and ensure the score difference is far enough to prove to yourself indeed you are much stronger. Somehow this is proven to backfire most of the time in many games.    Yet with a stronger player, you may or may not feel confident, but you also in fear of something. It’s strange, because you know that stronger player is not going to eat you up or chop you into pieces, but somehow you ha