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this i must say is very true, however, one must be prepared to be humbled! i tried this on this site, an experiment as i just wanted to 'taste', what it was like to play a much much higher rated human than myself, so i started some games with Cinco, a rather brilliant 2100+ rated player, paulbuchmanfromfics, a 1900+, rated player, at first i just got slaughtered, and just learned that i am not very good, which i knew anyway, but then I realized that while i could not overcome them, i could get a fairly, 'even game', up until a point, then i was overcome, however with Cinco especially, one wrong move or inaccuracy and i was history, and eventually i lost heart and became demoralized, and would just give up. the moral is, yes play players stronger than yourself, try to pick up on their ideas, but playing those much much stronger felt like a cat toying with an unsuspecting mouse!