Answers.Body: <p>Sleep well and hit the gym. </p>
  
  <p>Over the board is hard physically as well as mentally. And physical condition has big contribution to playing strength.</p>
  
  <p>So in short, don't get tired before your opponent, be the last man standing. </p>
  
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Body: <p>So I'm participating in a chess tournament in a few days (FIDE rating) and I'm in a fix as to preparation methods. I'm doing as many puzzles as I can and preparing many openings. I'm also playing few precursor tournaments for practice. But is there any specific approach I need to take? Like I need a 1500 plus rating for my next year's pocket money so is there anything you need to do to get to get an extra edge over the competition?</p>
  
Tags: <tournament><elo><preparation>
Title: Preparations for chess tournaments
ThreadText: # Preparations for chess tournaments
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2018-04-20)
  
  So I'm participating in a chess tournament in a few days (FIDE rating) and I'm in a fix as to preparation methods. I'm doing as many puzzles as I can and preparing many openings. I'm also playing few precursor tournaments for practice. But is there any specific approach I need to take? Like I need a 1500 plus rating for my next year's pocket money so is there anything you need to do to get to get an extra edge over the competition?
  
  **Tags:** tournament, elo, preparation
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2018-04-21. Score: 1 | Accepted answer
  
  Sleep well and hit the gym.
  
  Over the board is hard physically as well as mentally. And physical condition has big contribution to playing strength.
  
  So in short, don't get tired before your opponent, be the last man standing.
  
  
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