12/20/2023 0 Comments Buster douglas dadIt made me sick how many chess educational platforms were making very weak courses but selling them with attractive marketing words, generating big money by breaking many chess lovers’ dreams, selling them fake promises. I had to work not only on creating ChessMood but also for covering all the expenses. (because of a few bad investments I had made earlier).įor one year I regularly woke up at 4 am and worked till 9 pm. I was told over and over again that for starting ChessMood I’d need a minimum of $100.000 of investment. When I started ChessMood, I had no investments, no knowledge about running an online company, no experience of leading a team… Nothing. You should find WHY you need to wake up from your bed. You should find a stronger answer to WHY not only in chess. He had a very strong WHY and I believed in his WHY.Īnd we started working… I don’t know which one of us was happier, him, me, or his dad when he made it! He became a Grandmaster! (I’ll reveal his name later, as he asked). He wanted his dad to see him becoming a Grandmaster. His dad was very sick… He didn’t know how much time his father had. In other words, not much time to invest in chess. He was a CFO of a big company, had a full-time job and family. Recently one of my students had a goal to become a Grandmaster. If you want to know it, I've shared it in my interview with Jay Garrison. Many of you know my WHY, so I won’t tell it again. Not just WHY to become a Grandmaster but WHY I must do it in 1 year. I had a very strong answer to the question “WHY”. Well, I found a coach who believed in me, I had strong support from my family, and there were some other factors due to which I achieved it.īut everything started from one point. To get 3 GM norms and pass the 2500 rating. When I was IM at my 18, I had a goal to become a Grandmaster the next year. How many people do you know who had a dream or a goal and then gave up? Too many, right?īecause they didn’t have a strong enough answer to the question “WHY?”. If you don’t know what your WHY is or if your WHY is not strong, you’ll get knockdowns very often and eventually will be sent to knockout. You will have lots of painful blunders and painful defeats. Your chess career is going to hit you in the mouth. The question was not how did he manage to get back on his feet after being sent to knockdown but WHY did he manage to stand up. "Because of my mother.God bless her heart", said the new Heavyweight Champion.īefore her mother died, she had told the world that his son was going to beat Mike Tyson. In the 9th round, he successfully resisted all attacks of Tyson, who was trying to finish him.Īnd in the 10th round Douglas, with four punches to Tyson’s head, knocked him down for the first time in Tyson’s career.īuster Douglas thus became the new undisputed heavyweight champion!ĭuring the post-fight interview, Douglas broke into tears when asked how he was able to win this fight when no one thought he could. Nobody had ever got knocked out by Mike Tyson and ever got back up. He held out for long, to everybody’s surprise.īut within the last 10 seconds of the 8th round, Tyson landed a big right uppercut that sent Douglas to the canvas. That time bookmakers were accepting even bets on how many seconds Douglas could hold out. Many thought the match would be canceled, but Buster Douglas said he’d fight. 23 days before the fight, his mother passed away. On February 11, 1990, a fight between the World Champion Mike Tyson and Buster Douglas was organized.īuster was a huge underdog 42-1. If you know this story, you can skip this paragraph, but if you don’t, this will be one of the most inspiring stories you’ve ever heard.
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