A Zillion Chess and Life Hacks. Chess Psyhology<\/p>\n
ow should a chess player, be they amateur or professional, achieve their full potential? What\u2019s the best way to prepare psychologically for the game, opponents, tournaments? How can they set goals at the board and achieve them? What techniques can they employ to react when the game takes an unexpected turn? How should they plan to avoid time trouble, and then handle it (or their opponent\u2019s) if it occurs? What about maintaining concentration and controlling emotions at the board? How to use psychology when choosing a move or trying to achieve a draw? What\u2019s the best approach to facing much stronger opponents? What should a player do if one\u2019s opponent breaks the rules? How to bounce back from losses?<\/p>\n
Woman Grandmaster Maria Manakova has written a detailed psychological manual on how to navigate these and other key matters for both club players and those setting out on their professional journey. This book contains a huge number of practical and actionable tips, drawn from both Maria\u2019s personal experience and that of her professional peers among players and coaches. It provides examples from 24 games, some taken from Maria\u2019s career and others played by the greats of the game (among them Carlsen, Kramnik, and Anand). It also contains a generous selection of photos from Maria\u2019s life, as well as her own magnificent drawings that illustrate her advice. This book is available in three editions \u2013 paperback, hardback and full-color hardback.<\/p>\n
Maria Manakova (born 1974) is a Serbian WGM of Russian origin with a career-high rating of 2395 who has played for Yugoslavia and Serbia in two Olympiads and three European team championships. Honors include silver medal at the European team championship (1999) representing Yugoslavia, gold medal in the European club championship (2002), Moscow women\u2019s champion (2009) and Serbian women\u2019s champion (2013). Maria has coached for three decades. Away from the board, she obtained a university degree in journalism and also studied theater. Maria has acted in theater plays and movies, co-hosted a talk show on Russian terrestrial TV, sung in a jazz band, and regularly performs as a singer-guitarist, including solo shows. Several documentary films have been made about Maria, the reason being, according to Boris Spassky, she is \u201ca woman with a uniquely interesting life story\u201d.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s what Alexei Shirov had to say about the first edition of her book, published in 2023 in Russian: \u201cWhile we \u2018strong\u2019 grandmasters narrow our perception of Earthly chess to one or two lines, Maria Manakova has embraced our entire galaxy in her work. This book will not leave any chess lover unmoved.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
June 24, 2024
\nPaperback
\nEnglish
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