Originally posted by English TalSo do you think hypnosis/NLP could help with any aspect of chess...any tips we could try at home?
I teach hypnosis.
NLP was invented by two Americans comparatively recently, and now Paul McEnna (Brit) is part of it.
Basically, NLP was created out of the 'best bits' of hypnosis, extrapolated and given its own language, and copyrighted. I am not knocking NLP...indeed, it is now impossible not to quote it, and refer to it when discussing hypnosis.
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ok ok...spelling...McEnna should be with a 'k'..not Scots...
Originally posted by MahoutHypnosis or NLP or any type of 'extra' could only assist if the knowledge was there in the first place (unfortunately!).
So do you think hypnosis/NLP could help with any aspect of chess...any tips we could try at home?
For example, I could convince someone that when they next went to the examination hall and sat down infront of their paper, they would feel calm and relaxed enough for the answers to come back to them without effort or stress. BUT.... if the homework (knowledge) wasn't there in the first place, the answers not only wouldn't, but couldn't come.
What I am saying is, the knowledge must be there in the first place. With correspondence chess, the 'stress' factor is largely taken out of the process...OTB chess could CERTAINLY be improved if any form of pressure was an obstacle.
Of course, hypnosis could undoubtedly assist with the assimilation of chess knowledge, using proven methods of study both conscious and subconscious training techniques etc.
At a pinch, NLP techniques COULD be used on this site by sending the relevant comments/suggestions with every move sent...pointing the way for your opponent to 'err' or choose a line of your choosing... but the receiver would have to be the type of person who takes every message received as important to respond to it. It's a big subject.
Basically, the answer to your question is unfortunately NO.
However... the subconscious is truly amazing, and if, say, you had a problem with a game (eg, you didn't know which of suitable alternative moves to make ie the 'homework' was already basically done) ...then...sleep on it. Try to ensure that the game was the last thing on your mind before sleep...and in the morning, you would know instinctively the course to take. Sleep on it. Use the power of your subconscious. Many famous people have used this untapped power of the brain. (During the day, the brain becomes 'blocked up' with too much knowledge, mostly inconsequential..... when fresh on waking, it goes 'straight line' to the obvious answer.) Ok?