Hello lichess community, I'm looking for your help.
The overall question is something like:
What do you do to improve your mental stamina for chess?
I'm a fairly underwhelming club player (ECF140 for those of you that means anything to) and I play league matches in the evenings as well as playing games for the county and the odd tournament. I often find myself getting extremely tired at some point during the average club game, sometimes with some quite embarrassing results, so I wanted to ask the above question (with a focus especially on getting insight from prodigious or prolific club/tournament players).
Are there any ways you can actually train your mental stamina? Are there any things that you as a player do before/during every game? Are there any ways you can give particular energy to that critical point in a match? Do you therefore conserve your energy in other ways?
So I'm expecting some fairly obvious (but probably good) answers like get good sleep or eat a banana during the game or whatever, but I also wondered whether anyone had anything that works for them that they'd be willing to share.
Best
Caustic
The overall question is something like:
What do you do to improve your mental stamina for chess?
I'm a fairly underwhelming club player (ECF140 for those of you that means anything to) and I play league matches in the evenings as well as playing games for the county and the odd tournament. I often find myself getting extremely tired at some point during the average club game, sometimes with some quite embarrassing results, so I wanted to ask the above question (with a focus especially on getting insight from prodigious or prolific club/tournament players).
Are there any ways you can actually train your mental stamina? Are there any things that you as a player do before/during every game? Are there any ways you can give particular energy to that critical point in a match? Do you therefore conserve your energy in other ways?
So I'm expecting some fairly obvious (but probably good) answers like get good sleep or eat a banana during the game or whatever, but I also wondered whether anyone had anything that works for them that they'd be willing to share.
Best
Caustic