I feel nervous in losing positions and in winning positions lol.
My advice is to play the board and as @optimissed had said create traps on losing position
I create traps all the time, or at least I try...
I feel nervous in losing positions and in winning positions lol.
My advice is to play the board and as @optimissed had said create traps on losing position
I create traps all the time, or at least I try...
Haha, good for you. I have to look at some of your games in where you were losing but managed to put up a brave fight.
It is certainly less expensive to play in a local chess club than in tournament. Also, the environment is going to be much more friendly in a club and that's what i really care. But the competitive spirit of tournament is also very much appealing to me.
Well, you could try playing over-the-board friendly games to have a feel before jumping straight into "the lion's mouth" (your local tournament).
You just save me from becoming a good joke.
I used to feel so nervous in difficult positions I couldn't handle it. It took about two years to learn to control it. You just have to force yourself to think. Taking a walk in the middle of a game used to help. It was worth losing ten minutes on the clock.
I once had a very unfortunate panic attack in a game. I was up a pawn in a game in a very comfortable winning position and quickly played Qa4+ trying to win a knight on b4 after calculating some lines. Soon after I realised that this knight was defended by...the very bishop on f8 from the starting position! I subsequently panicked and my position deteriorated all the way.
It was my only loss of the tournament (in which I drew the first three games, lost this fourth game and won the last three) and it was really saddening. My opponent afterwards asked me regarding my decision for making the move Qa4+, and I told him it was based on a miscalculation as the knight was already defended.
To make things worse, he used to frequent my chess club and I have never lost against him in my prior encounters (I had won him in all encounters before this loss).
I used to feel so nervous in difficult positions I couldn't handle it. It took about two years to learn to control it. You just have to force yourself to think. Taking a walk in the middle of a game used to help. It was worth losing ten minutes on the clock.
In my case, I "meditated" for two or three minutes. Somehow that worked in my won games and almost worked in my "lost" games against players rated 600 points higher than me (I suddenly missed the winning blow in a time trouble generated by my own meditation).
It is certainly less expensive to play in a local chess club than in tournament. Also, the environment is going to be much more friendly in a club and that's what i really care. But the competitive spirit of tournament is also very much appealing to me.