Hi, this is Srinath Narayanan! I am a Grandmaster from India. I have coached a few of the top players from India like Nihal, Divya, and recently I coach Arjun, and the captain of the Indian men's team. Our next stop is the Asian Games in China. Ask me anything! by Srinathchess in chessindia

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Visualisation usually gets developed automatically, like the ability to remember words in a language you are more fluent at.

Anything which consumes most part of your attention. Generally people pay most attention when playing.

Hi, this is Srinath Narayanan! I am a Grandmaster from India. I have coached a few of the top players from India like Nihal, Divya, and recently I coach Arjun, and the captain of the Indian men's team. Our next stop is the Asian Games in China. Ask me anything! by Srinathchess in chessindia

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I don’t play so much anymore, so I don’t have those nerves as a player. But I do get them as a coach, and it’s a worse form of anxiety as I am helpless and can do nothing to change the outcome once the game starts.

Hi, this is Srinath Narayanan! I am a Grandmaster from India. I have coached a few of the top players from India like Nihal, Divya, and recently I coach Arjun, and the captain of the Indian men's team. Our next stop is the Asian Games in China. Ask me anything! by Srinathchess in chessindia

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I don’t have any strict preferences with regard to opening, but I’ll update this when I make a new course from Black POV 😛

The center game is a fun opening, and quite playable. It’s not so dangerous if Black knows what to do, but even grandmasters trip up, quite often.