Do you know some case of an amateur or professional player who by nerves, stress, doubts, anxiety, trouble of time, "deranged" mind .... against his/her wishes, is unable to play chess.
I am almost certain that almost all the best players in the world (men and women) have a kind of mental strength like steel.
And training this situation must be difficult or impossible (mental resistance)
I do not remember who said it, nor how their words were. Maybe Botvinnik or Kotov, referring to Petrosian "Has a patience to pump test"
I think Alfred de Musset, great French writer, after being defeated in a game, was enraged and the winning opponent, by those manners, said he would never play with him
The Psychology of the Chess Player, 1967 (Reuben Fine). In the first pages it says that there are players who have had to leave it for not bearing the pressure (I do not remember the exact words)
Of the best in the world, now, or in the past, which are the players with the best mental strength and ability to nullify nervousness and which the worst?
Thank you very much.
I am almost certain that almost all the best players in the world (men and women) have a kind of mental strength like steel.
And training this situation must be difficult or impossible (mental resistance)
I do not remember who said it, nor how their words were. Maybe Botvinnik or Kotov, referring to Petrosian "Has a patience to pump test"
I think Alfred de Musset, great French writer, after being defeated in a game, was enraged and the winning opponent, by those manners, said he would never play with him
The Psychology of the Chess Player, 1967 (Reuben Fine). In the first pages it says that there are players who have had to leave it for not bearing the pressure (I do not remember the exact words)
Of the best in the world, now, or in the past, which are the players with the best mental strength and ability to nullify nervousness and which the worst?
Thank you very much.