AnthonyCG wrote:
Whenever I feel nervous or overconfident I always stop and just breathe for a while. Then I look at the board as if I had never seen it before and start fresh.
Good practice to follow. Especially at tournaments. 
The most dangerous thing in chess: to much confidence
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DocRoy wrote:
AnthonyCG wrote:
Whenever I feel nervous or overconfident I always stop and just breathe for a while. Then I look at the board as if I had never seen it before and start fresh.
Good practice to follow. Especially at tournaments.
When you play in your tournament's what do you see other people do.
the one method you both suggested is very good but do you know other method's even some you probably don't use ?
I usually try to focus fully on the game, forget about who im playing or what is for. Kind of like i hope i behave in a life or death situation. Cool, focused and objective driven.
I'm often found guilty of both.
Whenever I get overconfident, I forget what the other person is trying to do. I just concentrate on my plans of crushing my opponent. I have done this many times in tournaments and it hurts every time.
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Aug 7, 2009
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Well it is ironic that confidence is a natural by-product of "improving technique" which is how we win "won" games better than we used to. Wondering how much is "too much"?
Though on the flip-side => gambits and wild openings like 1.e4 e5 2.Qh5 can mutilate opponents who are not confident enough that the quality of their chess (regardless of their lack or awareness of said opening) will take them to the middlegame favorably.
Solutions? Well the over-confident state turns on like light-bulb when we are winning or if the opponent is playing passively ... One thing I've done is to step away from the board and tell myself that the pressure is actually on me to seal the deal. My opponent has license to be as creative + psychotic + risk-taking as he needs to be in an already losing position. This usually has me getting back to my paranoid self again :)
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these types of judgements are often true because of their convenient ambiguity. But all things being equal, lacking confidence seems more problematic in a skilled player. If you dont trust your analysis, your play will suffer greatly. Whereas unless your play is outright delusional being an optimistic player can pay off as much as it costs you.
You can sometimes even bluff opponents with your bravad. If you deliver a dubious attack with great confidence ,your opponent may trip up thinking they are simply missing something you are seeing or likewise, if you defend like if a massive attack coming towards you is a mistake and not even right, that can really get into your opponents head. People shoudnt underestimate body language in tournament play.
I know I've heard it a lot of time's where people say not to get to confident even when your winnnig but I still get to confident and something I think is a good turn's out to be a bad move so but when I stay calm I even play like a canidtate master so I was wondering what are some method's people may use to stay calm ?