𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑐𝑟𝑢𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑠?

Confidence helps you stay focused and believe that you can find solutions, whereas lack of confidence can lead to panicking and making rash decisions.

I agree with that. Confidence is important especially when facing a stronger opponent.

#1 that is 150% true

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It probably varies from one person to another... for me I don't find it's that important during the game. I don't really let my emotions effect me much in game, it's just a logic problem that needs to be solved. But some other people do seem to feel confidence matters.... I do think confidence outside of the game is very important for driving you to put the time in to succeed though. If you don't believe you can succeed you probably won't try as hard.

yeah!

makes you wanna play!

I strongly disagree with #1. If you have no confidence, your elo will drop all the way to 100, so technically confidence = 3400 rating.

Well, confidence is great, but just make sure you don't have too much. I got way overconfident today and lost to somebody about 300 below me . So while I'd say confidence might get you those 150 rating points, it might then push you to thing that you can't lose to lesser opponents and then you won't be paying them enough due respect.

mindset is the difference between tilt, and +200 rating.

it seems like i revived this thread! 😄😄

When you're going to play a brilliant move, you need to be confident that it's going to work. Moves that are genuinely brilliant (by realistic standards, not this website's standards) are almost always extremely unintuitive, so your own brain can trick you into thinking it's a stupid idea.