Improve Your Life by Playing a Game

Descripción

The process of acquiring chess skills and gaining a deep insight into the thinking of chess masters has

always been an exciting topic. What are the special skills, talents and habits that distinguish great chess

players from club players has long been the subject of intense discussion. Little scientific work has been

devoted to this question, and there are practically no books that would combine knowledge of psychology

and the development of strategic thinking skills in a textbook of high educational value. The greatest

obstacle was that most psychologists who dealt with this question were not strong chess players

themselves and therefore had no direct access to the mental processes of chess at the master level. On

the other hand, it is also difficult to find first-class cognitive psychologists among the chess players. Dr.

Jana Krivec is a unique exception to this rule: a strong chess player, a woman grandmaster with

extensive experience in competitive chess, and a university professor in the field of cognitive psychology,

who devoted most of her research to understanding cognitive processes in the minds of chess players.

 

The book Improve Your Life by Playing a Game takes us on an exciting journey through a wide range of

topics from psychology and explains these topics by putting the reader in the role of a tournament chess

player. Gaining a deeper understanding of the mind of a chess player during training, playing and

analysing chess games suddenly takes on a different dimension when explained through the lens of

modern psychology. Even non chess players can now deeply understand the famous quote that chess is

life in miniature. Throughout the book life, chess and cognitive psychology are so intimately connected

that the reader is given plenty of food for thought and valuable life lessons.

 

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