EP127 Jonathan Rowson on The Moves That Matter
The Jim Rutt Show
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The Struggle to Maintain Concentration in Chess
Concentration is a kind of life's work in some ways, and we really have to strive hard to achieve it. You can do certain things that make it more likely that you'll be optimately focused - but there is no formula. And in a weird way, effort gets in the way. So somehow you have to have this undoing process whereby you allow yourself to relax, but you're not so relaxed that you don't have that tension to compete.
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