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| From | Message | Posted by jstack
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8/26/2008
10:35:25
Play online chess |  Subject: How to recover.
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I have a question for you OTB players. How do you recover after a very disappointing tournament result. What do you do to get your confidence back?
| Posted by lighttotheright
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8/26/2008
10:58:23
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Study the games you played during the tournament. Find out where you could have done much better. You need to look at it as an opportunity to improve your play.
Identify you weaknesses and work to improve them.
You might also take a few days for a well deserved break, before you delve into those games. Do something else that you enjoy and then come back to the game. Just don't take a break for too long.
You need to 'get back onto the horse' and ride after you have brushed yourself off a bit. A few wins under your belt and your confidence will return quickly. Just look at any loss as an opportunity.
| Posted by spurtus
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8/26/2008
14:35:15
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lightotheright has the right idea
You have to lose to become better, to raise the ante, to dig deep and play a newer game.
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Children 1, Astronaut 0 — In the end, the astronaut could not outwit the children. Wednesday, Greg Chamitoff, an American astronaut, resigned a long-running correspondence chess game against a group of children from Stevenson Elementary School in Bellevue, Wash. They had started the game in September 2008 while Chamitoff was stationed aboard the International Space Station. The game had been the idea of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Officials at the agency had asked the United States Chess Federation about having Chamitoff play a game of chess against some of the federation’s members. Stevenson was chosen as an opponent because the school ...
Posted by jstack
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9/02/2008
10:57:30
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thanks for the replies. At first I thought how can I possibly learn anything from such losses. Such losses where I completely outplay my opponent up to a certain point...then blunder and lose. It had me thinking why do I bother playing. Then last tuesday I played in a small tuesday night tournament. I played a little combination that won a pawn. But instead the life master blundered away a rook to me. If such things can happen to a life master, who am I to complain when it happens to me.
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by the way, I let the master have a draw. I did not want my first win against a master to be due to a blunder. There was also a distraction in the tournament hall which seemed to caused the blunder. more on this see.. www.bacon.blogspot.com
(you just got to play the game).
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London Chess Classic: Kramnik's lesson in positional play — McShane-Kramnik, London 2009. Black to play. With two rounds to go in the London Chess Classic, the Norwegian chess prodigy Magnus Carlsen looks set to win the tournament. Vladimir Kramnik, his main rival, is in second place. In this game from round three, Kramnik displayed his refined positional understanding. RB I've been following this tournament online, but I missed this particular game, and more's the pity because I can't find a good continuation for Black. Clearly Kramnik has the better game – the two centralised knights look very threatening – but how to convert Black's positional superiority into a winning position? 1...Nxd2 2 Nxd2 doesn't lead anywhere and ...
Posted by chessnovice
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9/04/2008
15:34:37
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When I started out, I remember my strategy for recovering was more impulsive. I threw a fit and kicked a glass cup that was sitting on the ground, which shattered down the hotel corridor.
A few years afterwards, I changed my strategy to going over games with some of my friends, since they were at or near master level and were a good resource. I started playing a few blitz games with them, and then when I inevitably lost we went over the game move by move. Seeking guidance from more experienced people is probably the best way to go.
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Gelfand Wins World Chess Cup — Boris Gelfand of Israel is the 2009 World Cup champion. Gelfand won the title by beating Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine in a playoff on Monday. The first four games of the playoff were rapid games (25 minutes per player per game) and Gelfand took the lead by winning the second game. But Ponomariov, with his back to the wall, won the last rapid game to tie the match up again. The playoff then went to blitz chess (5 minutes per player per game) and Gelfand once again took the lead by beating Ponomariov in the first game when he managed to trap Ponomariov’s queen in 21 moves. Ponomariov rallied again, winning the second game. But Gelfand won the third and Ponomariov ...
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