I’ve tried a few times to get better at chess. But I always hit a moment in the process when I start (I think the word is) “perseverating” on bad positions — on arrangements from which there is, for me, at my skill level, no way out. I lay in bed in the dark at night or I sit at a traffic light in my car just picturing hopeless positions and panicking. …
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