Years of practice, playing a variety of guitars, having a well setup guitar. Inherently, some guitars are just easier to play than others, that is to say, less pressure needs to be applied to the strings when chording, for a clean sound.
Has your guitar been setup? If not, I strongly encourage you to get it set up.
Have you played many other guitars? If not, I encourage you to play as many different guitars are you can, including ones that people own and play regularly, if possible.
For the record, I'm a hard presser too.
Maybe one final trick is to get an electric with light strings -- try to play chords on it without playing them sharp.
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As my username suggests, huge fan of Yamaha products. Own many acoustic-electric models from 2009-present and a couple electric. Lots of PA too.
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