Extreme Bouts of Chess Blindness

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Ellie47

I read a book called The Joy of Stress, it's about making stress work in your favor.  It recommends to avoid burnout, transferring the blood supply to a different part of the brain, thus stressing a different area and thereby allowing it to get on with quietly computing everything it has learned.  By stressing I mean something like tackling some difficult and annoying weeding job that needs doing in your yard, and it will require all your attention to deal with it.  Hope this helps.

GMScuzzBall

Here is what happened to my opponent, who was kicking my ass.

http://www.chess.com/livechess/game?id=1105674857

TheAdultProdigy
Ellie47 wrote:

I read a book called The Joy of Stress, it's about making stress work in your favor.  It recommends to avoid burnout, transferring the blood supply to a different part of the brain, thus stressing a different area and thereby allowing it to get on with quietly computing everything it has learned.  By stressing I mean something like tackling some difficult and annoying weeding job that needs doing in your yard, and it will require all your attention to deal with it.  Hope this helps.

I may have a look at that.  Sounds interesting, even if not helpful in this particular context.