inter - round

You want to know something that is awesome to see?  Not just one, but two superstar chess coaches working in top gear with our players, who are some of the strongest, most highly motivated players you can find.  In between rounds, Florin and Jeff are analyzing and coaching in tandem.  The players eat it up, testing moves, navigating opening lines, replaying critical passages from the games they just played, or preparing opening lines for their next games.  Aristotle called this type of exercise of ones' powers "energeia", the activity in which one is most fully oneself.  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi called it "flow".  When you are in it, or even, as I am now, in the presence of it, nothing more needs to be said, because it is the real thing.  Even from a distance, it is beautiful.