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Michael Levin, Life is a game Petr is my former same year
student at the Department of Mathematics of Moscow State
University. He was somewhat like a personal coach for me after
his two ACM ICPC finals when his ACM career formally ended. We
also worked together for 2 years in the Moscow office of Google,
and we rented a flat together during those 2 years, so I know
him relatively well.  I would definitely support the point of
the Aditya's answer about his humbleness. Petr is very modest,
and he actually doesn't like all this super-popularity with
Facebook page created about him, etc. He is very polite and
doesn't ever show off in any way. No one in the competitive
programming can pass without these trash talk conversations like
"(yellow coder) - Oh, I'm a fool: I had to resubmit my
250-point. (red coder) - Oh, I'm a fool: I've fixed my hard in
30 seconds after the end of the coding phase. (Petr) - Oh, I'm a
fool: I've missed 2 valid challenges on t