Defending Under Pressure Managing Your Emotions At The Chessboard 1st Steve Hrop by Steve Hrop, 9781936277964, 1936277964 instant download after payment.

The seconds tick down
relentlessly toward zero just as your game approaches the critical
stage. Your higher-rated opponent is putting your game under severe
pressure, so extreme accuracy is needed to hang tough and avoid falling
into a losing position. What do you do now – should you exchange pieces
to relieve the pressure, lash out with a sacrifice, probe for weaknesses
in the opponent's camp, or maybe just give up and get a lesson on how
to bring the point home?

The answer is… none of
these! At such do-or-die moments, says Steve Hrop, the first thing to do
is to sit on your hands and take a few deep breaths. In Defending Under
Pressure and Managing Your Emotions at the Chessboard, the author uses
critical moments from his own tournament games (most of them against
players rated above 2200) to describe the difficulties of thinking
straight when the enemy is at the gates, and then outlines methods and
techniques to clear your head, evaluate the position, and find your way
to the best move. Techniques include how to avoid redundant pieces that
critically limit your mobility; when visualization is more important
than calculation: and “freeze-framing” positions to eliminate blunders.

Save the draw – or turn a looming defeat into an astonishing victory – with the tips in this practical training manual!

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