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Hormones and Pre-game Preparation

Hormones and Pre-game Preparation

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Feb 22, 2025
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By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail, Benjamin Franklin said.

This is more than true in chess, as chess preparation has many forms. Here I want to touch upon the pre-game preparation. Not the chessrelated one, but the psychological one.

Each player has his or her own pre-game ritual, what they do in the last hour or two before the game. A lot…

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