What Chess Players do to trick your mind, and why it's a test
Chess, as you know it's a warfare; both over the board and in your mind. Well, I researched some tactics players use to stress the opponents in play. Each tactic is given a section, feel free to search through the library of tactics you can use in future games!
Avoiding the "Tilt"
"Tilt" is an surge of anger and sadness, typically in chess, which makes the person play another game to prove or feel the surge of adrenaline (which is victory). And that, typically doesn't end well. The emotions take over the logical part of the brain, causing blunders, obvious and rushed moves with less calculation and costing you the game again. Simply the best move here, is to not make a move. Timeout and take a breather. Winning and losing is part of game, it's the way the person receives it that creates a better game!!
Fear the pieces, Not the person
Just imagine, you are casually joining a random game, like a 10+0 Rapid. You press join and suddenly, much to your time- It's Magnus (Sorry, if I used his name in this blog) and you suddenly feel sweaty, your heart races and you fear your mouse. That, my friends is your brain's doing. Your brain sees the calculative, focused, intimidating Magnus in that board. All are not perfect, even great grandmasters make blunders, it's the opposite player (you, in this case) to take advantage of it. You should control your emotions for better thinking and soon you will see the board talking to you otherwise.
Time management
Something which I should mention, is time management. We all do this, when the clock is starting - You are calm, composed and calculative; But when the clock is closer to zero - You are frantic, you blunder like crazy, you draw, or in worst case scenarios you RESIGN. This can be avoided with a tactic called pre-calculation, although learning it will vary differently on the time taken by each individual. Basically, your mind predicts what moves the opposite person will play while you play your move, in different and numerous probabilities whilst creating a counter attack for the same. This is something like maxing render distance on the first desktop, by which I mean, has high risk for mind overdrives if you use this without practice. Although, many people accidentally use this tactic without therselves knowing.
I will be creating more parts to this as I ran out of time. And please let me know if you like it or not.
More study and stuff material will be posted, until then -@fcbarcalona1011
