I made every move with patience and care.
By contrast, he made his moves the very instant after I played mine.
As I thought about my next move, he would wander around the tournament room watching other people's games.
I'm not letting some 10-year-old rattle me, I thought. I'm going to play as methodically as I always do, and I won't be thrown by his contemptuous behavior.
Little by little, I started gaining advantages.
By around move 15, he stopped wandering around.
He began to take more time on his moves.
By move 25, it was all over. I had completely crushed him.
Woods, you beat a 10-year-old?
You're darn right. Some of these kids are incredible prodigies, so you have to play them like adults.
More to the point: this arrogant kid needed to get beaten, to jolt him out of his extremely unhealthy and altogether unwarranted superiority complex.
In chess I would describe myself as a strong amateur. I'll blow any casual player off the board, but a grandmaster would crush me like a bug.
When it comes to online marketing, I'd describe myself similarly: I know more than most people do and I've had more success than I ever dreamed possible, but there's a class of experts out there I can't even touch.
As you know from episode 1319 of the Tom Woods Show, Steve Clayton is one of those.
I still get success-story emails from my folks who have worked with Steve. I devoted an entire episode of my podcast just to talking to them.
If you're on this list, you're interested in online business. Maybe you've been waiting for your ship to come in.
Well, here it is: the Queen Mary.
Steve is doing a presentation for my folks in the coming days (and remember: for every single person who attends and stays for the whole presentation, we're donating $10 to the Scott Horton Show, whose heroic host operates on a shoestring budget).
Lives are going to be changed, folks.
I think -- and you probably know -- you should be there:
Tom Woods