Description
Your performance at the board does not only depend on your pure chess skills. Being a winner is necessary a mindset that is able to cope with lots of stress and setbacks during hours of continuous concentration.
Just like technical chess skills, mental toughness can be trained. There are a few steps you can take that will help you to better understand your potential. Professional mental coach and chess player Werner Schweitzer has been working with chess teams and individual players for many years.
In this book Schweitzer gives practical tips and tools that will help you to upgrade your mental power during a game. You will learn how to:
— increase your concentration and stamina
— recognize your own strengths and weaknesses
— cope with losses as well as victories
— increase your self-discipline when studying
— handle disturbing thoughts and feelings during a game
— boost your self-confidence
— avoid underestimating (and overestimating!) your opponent
— make better decisions while under pressure
and other mental skills.
These lessons and simple mental workouts will help players of all levels to unlock the full power of their brain and win more games.
Werner Schweitzer graduated as a mental coach at the University of Salzburg, Austria. He is an expert in which mental factors have impact on a chess player’s performance. Schweitzer has been training players and teams for many years.
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