Does Believing In Yourself Help In Chess?

Hello! Today I played a game: https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/28006188059

In many other games I lost or drawn without thinking about wins. This game was other.

After I joined a Daily Tournament, I got to Live and clicked “Play”.

At first, I decided to use my Polish Opening, because the Ware Opening did not help in my games. Everything was great, until turn 4, black a5.

I wanted to resign after that move.

From then I was thinking that in the endgame I will win with forks.

I  “lost” the whole middle game materially, but I didn’t waste the endgame,

but I was losing at the beginning of it, but thanks to forks I regained material and stalemated, and  got +1 rating point, and a great game to analyze.

Thank you for reading!