How Do You Stay Calm After Blundering?

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me also

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Throwing furniture always calms me down.

it is not good for me it don't work lol

All joking aside I consider it just a game. Depending on the "cause" of the blunder I may react with a fist pump or whatever but typically staying calm is the easy bit. Hakuna matada, as it were..

I am at a relatively low level and I favour advice from the chess YouTube commentator Nelson Lopez, in one of his videos. His view is that if you are lower-rated, say under 1400, you should not be too quick to resign because there is a possibility that if you hang in there your opponent might blunder, at least cancelling out the effects of your own blunder. When I review some of my games, win or lose, the evaluation bar can waver crazily, as one side and then the other screws up or less often plays a fantastic move.

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yep sometime it work

ur level is so much good u have 1200 elo it mean u r not in low level

937 Rapid at present, Rapid is what I usually play. My big fight is to get it above 1000 but if I get over that line I don't stay there long. I see a long road of chess improvement ahead. There are times when I think all I'm doing is helping other people gain points. At times I even think of closing my account or quitting chess, temporarily or permanently, but I pull myself together after taking a walk, drinking a cup of coffee, whatever.

so good luck

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

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So the question is about mental recovery after a blunder, right? I know what you’re talking about, I experienced similar things. For example, I blundered a piece, and let’s say I still had one rook more, but I went on to nearly loose the game and then went on to loose like 8 out of 10 games frustrated, until I finally took a short break. It’s important that you remind yourself, that it’s ok. Try to forgive yourself and focus on other things. Even if you loose the game, you can try to search for various opportunities, like checkmate. You can become very creative since normal moves will just loose you the game anyway, but you can enjoy the process if you see chances.

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how do you stay calm?
Its pretty easy actually

You remember that you're a nobody playing a pointless rated board game on a chess site against another nobody, and your match has absolutely no consequence on society or the chess community at large.

In OTB chess, it is important to keep a poker face. Stay calm and do not show your opponent that you blundered. I remember a game in which I had a beautiful combination with two sacrifices. I should have won except that I had to play a quiet move in the middle of the sacs. I missed it. A few moves into the attack I realized that there was a defense that I had overlooked, about 3 or 4 moves further on. I kept my poker face and . . . . my opponent resigned!

I remember another game in which, just after making the first time control, I blundered an exchange. I nearly resigned on the spot. But I had a cup of coffee, took my time, looked for the best way to keep any chances, and found a way to double my rooks on the 7th rank after a further sacrifice. My opponent, a future GM, underestimated my counterplay. And he ultimately blundered a queen to avoid mate.

The moral is don’t give up. Don't stop fighting. Don’t let the opponent think you have given up.

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