How to be a better tournament player? I have an upcoming tournament and I already started to prepare, but I have some questions about tournament play:


How to do better in tournament games
Should I adjust to my opponents' play
Do I need to study every player or just work on things ( opening repertoire, tactics,... )
If you are this Janjic, Slobodan P, I would say that you need to do tactics, tactics, and more tactics. Try to do 50 per day, spending no more than 2 minutes per tactic. At the lower mid-levels, it really comes down to who loses a piece first most of the time.

I want to suggest that as you do the tactics, REALLY try to concentrate as you do them, and do not just play a move that looks good, and hope that you are right....REALLY see it through to the end, and try to visualize what it going on...don't play "hope chess" (I HOPE this works).

I covered this in depth for all rating levels here.