<hayton3> I would love to post my losses here. But, of the 3 games I've played thus far (2 of which were many years ago), I only have a record of the most recent one, from a couple of months back, which wasn't a loss for me. & even if that were not the case, I don't how to post any of my games here, regardless what the result was. I for one think there's more to learn from failure than from success. If I were conducting an experiment & it succeeded, that would only confirm my hypothesis, but that would not necessarily mean that my hypothesis was right in the first place! Why? Because my hypothesis is based on certain elements I picked from the available batch & which I decided must fit together, regardless whether or not all the elements in the batch might actually already form some kind of pattern together or have some kind of relationship together that I failed to detect. Whereas failure would show me what I was NOT trying to find, something about the method that I did NOT want to use (& thus show me that it does indeed have other merits & uses after all!), etc. So for me failure is under-rated & under-appreciated. Furthermore, when kids in school learn to value only success, they get crushed when they fail. They never get to learn the value & uses of failure, so as to benefit & make the most of BOTH success AND failure! Humanity AND society have much further to go just yet. But, hope springs eternal! Thank you kindly for your words of support AND for sharing your different perspective & opinion on the issues we've discussed. If nothing more, they serve to prevent me from stagnating & remind me of what I belive in & why. Thank you for that.

As a British expatriate I'm sure you'd notice that almost every one of Botterill's games were played in Britain and that he was a pretty decent player, if not in the class of the continental GMs who spent all their time on chess.