From the chess world

Bobby Fischer:

1. He studied every game played in the prior century. In the 1800s.
2. He learned enough Russian to read the Russian chess magazines. At the time, the top 20 players in the world were all Russian. The Americans didn’t really have a chance.

Josh Waitzkin

1. studied the endgame, while all other genius kids enjoyed the success via some tricks in the opening game.
2. Created an empty space: only keeps last several piece of chess

Take-home:

1. Watch every game saber game played in the last decade (modern electric based saber).
2. Find a country where saber is popular and resourceful, and use google translate to read them.
3. Saber’s endgame is long defense. Focus on long defense, even when you can win the point starting off, you should still create opportunity to practice long defense.
4. Empty space in the fencing world is basically just limiting the techniques to be used.