The mind architect (53 résultats)

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PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - When the board clears, every tempo, square, and exchange matters.How to Master Chess Endgames presents a practical system for understanding what controls an ending and choosing a plan that survives the opponent's best resistance. Instead of treating endgames as a collection of disconnected rules, the book connects each technique to a visible feature of the position.Inside you will learn how to: - activate the king at the right moment and calculate opposition accurately- create, support, stop, and race passed pawns- recognize winning and drawing mechanisms in rook endings- handle bishop, knight, queen, and mixed-piece endings with greater purpose- choose exchanges and pawn moves without surrendering the position's key resource- convert small advantages while limiting counterplay- defend difficult positions with activity, blockades, checks, and simplificationThirty carefully selected legal model positions cover king and pawn endings, promotion races, active rook play, minor-piece technique, simplification, defense, and zugzwang. Every case contains four clear diagrams, a verified continuation, a detailed explanation, and a practical lesson that can be transferred to future games.Written for ambitious improvers, club players, and experienced competitors who want to turn endgame knowledge into confident decisions at the board.Learn the mechanism. Respect the resistance. Finish with purpose.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Your finished games contain the blueprint for your improvement.How to Analyze Your Chess Games gives you a practical, repeatable method for turning a game score into useful training. Instead of collecting engine evaluations or blaming the final blunder, you will learn how to recover the decisions that shaped the game, locate the moments that deserve investigation, and identify the earliest failed step in your thinking.Inside you will learn how to: - preserve what you thought before memory rewrites the game- find critical moments without analyzing every move equally- generate candidate moves and calculate the strongest resistance- separate observation, calculation, evaluation, knowledge, and practical errors- use databases and chess engines as verification tools without surrendering independent thought- build an error and strength database that reveals patterns across your games- turn each conclusion into a specific training action and retestTwenty-four carefully selected case studies demonstrate the method across tactics, defense, strategy, king safety, rook endings, minor-piece endings, pawn races, promotion, and zugzwang. Every case contains four clear diagrams, a verified continuation, a detailed explanation, and a lesson that can be transferred to your own games.Written for ambitious beginners, adult improvers, club players, and experienced competitors who want every serious game to become part of a structured improvement system.Recover the decision. Understand the error. Improve the next game.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - One careless move can erase twenty good ones. A better thinking process can stop many of those mistakes before they reach the board.How to Stop Blundering in Chess presents a practical system for seeing what changed, spotting immediate threats, protecting loose pieces, and testing a candidate move against the opponent's strongest reply. The aim is not timid chess or a promise of perfect play. It is a repeatable method for reducing the preventable errors that cost real games.Inside you will learn how to: - read the opponent's last move as a change in lines, duties, and tactical permissions- detect hanging pieces, overloaded defenders, unsafe recaptures, and hidden forcing moves- test the destination square before committing to an attractive move- calculate one honest reply instead of assuming the opponent will cooperate- avoid automatic moves, truncated calculation, and tunnel vision- make safer decisions when winning, tired, surprised, or short of time- turn mistakes from your own games into specific training questionsThirty carefully selected legal case studies show how a changed line, loose piece, deflection, knight fork, exposed king, or irreversible pawn move can decide a game. Every case contains four clear diagrams, a verified continuation, a detailed explanation, and a preventive lesson that can be applied to future positions.Written for ambitious beginners, adult improvers, club players, and experienced competitors who want stronger board vision, fewer tactical oversights, and a more reliable chess thinking process.See the change. Respect the reply. Test the square.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - A better move begins with a better judgment of the position.How to Evaluate Chess Positions gives you a practical system for deciding what matters on the board, how the balance may change, and which resulting position best supports your next move. Instead of collecting disconnected principles or relying on unexplained numerical scores, you will learn to build a verdict from concrete evidence.Inside you will learn how to: - establish an accurate material and tactical baseline- separate durable structural advantages from temporary initiative- evaluate king safety, pawn structure, space, activity, weak squares, and piece coordination- judge exchanges by what remains after the recapture- measure compensation for sacrifices in concrete resources- compare candidate moves through their resulting positions- express complex evaluations in clear, testable languageThirty carefully selected legal case studies show how a verdict changes after a forcing move, exchange, pawn break, sacrifice, king route, or liquidation. Every case contains four clear diagrams, a verified continuation, a detailed explanation, and a transferable evaluative lesson.Written for ambitious beginners, adult improvers, club players, and experienced competitors who want to understand positions more deeply and choose moves with greater confidence.Count the facts. Connect the features. Compare the future.…

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Learn to think more clearly at the chessboard. Grandmasters do not simply see more moves. They see different questions. They know when to calculate, when to evaluate, when to stop the opponent's idea, and when a quiet move is stronger than a dramatic one. How Chess Grandmasters Think is a practical guide to the mental models behind elite play. It is not an opening manual or a database of variations. It is a clear exploration of how strong players see positions, create candidate moves, calculate, evaluate, defend, prepare, handle pressure, use engines, and learn from losses, with historical examples from Fischer, Spassky, Kasparov, Topalov, Carlsen, Karjakin, Tal, Petrosian, Capablanca, Karpov, Anand, and others. Inside you will discover: how grandmasters describe a position before choosing a movewhy candidate moves protect players from emotional decisionshow elite players calculate without trying to see everythingwhy prophylaxis is one of the quietest signs of strengthhow preparation, time pressure, defense, and endgames shape practical playhow to use engines as teachers without becoming dependent on themwhat famous grandmaster moments reveal about pressure, risk, recovery, and clear decision-makingtwelve grandmaster thinking examples that show how elite decisions are framedsixty-four grandmaster thinking rules for training and review This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Think clearer. Play calmer. Decide better. Chess improvement is not only openings, tactics, and endgames. It is also the way you see, decide, focus, recover, and stay calm when the position becomes difficult. The Chess Mindset is a practical guide to the mental habits behind stronger play. It shows how good players look before judging, compare candidate moves, manage time, check for blunders, handle risk, recover from losses, and train without turning every game into a judgment of their talent. Inside you will discover: - how to stay calm when the board becomes uncomfortable- how to stop falling in love with the first move you see- why blunder checks save more games than cleverness alone- how to use losses as training material instead of self-attack- how to build confidence that survives difficult positions- sixty-four mindset rules for practical play and review- a flexible training map for building better chess habitsWritten in the clear, elegant style of The Mind Architect Mastery Series, this book is for chess players, improvers, adult learners, coaches, and anyone who wants to think more clearly under pressure. The game is on the board. The battle is in the mind.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Stop memorizing opening names. Start understanding the positions they create.How to Understand Chess Openings explains the principles, structures, move orders, and plans behind the first phase of the game. Instead of presenting an encyclopedia of disconnected variations, it shows how opening moves create specific middlegames and how both sides can play those positions with purpose.Inside you will learn how to: - develop pieces toward useful work and contest the center intelligently- understand gambits, defenses, systems, variations, traps, and transpositions- recognize the pawn structures and breaks that connect different openings- compare plans for White and Black in the major opening families- build a coherent repertoire without memorizing endless move trees- recognize when preparation ends and middlegame decision-making beginsThe book explores the Italian Game, Ruy Lopez, Scotch, Sicilian Defense, French Defense, Caro-Kann, Queen's Gambit, Slav, Catalan, Nimzo-Indian, King's Indian, Grunfeld, English Opening, Reti, and many other important systems. Each opening profile includes a legal representative line, two clear diagrams, strategic plans for both sides, critical pawn breaks, common mistakes, and the likely transition to the middlegame.Written for ambitious beginners, club players, and experienced improvers who want opening theory to become usable chess knowledge.Understand the structure. Find the plan. Play the position.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Stop guessing when the position stops being tactical.Many chess players can spot combinations yet still feel lost in quiet positions. How to Find the Right Plan in Chess gives you a practical, repeatable method for turning evaluation into action.You will learn how to: - identify the feature that controls the position- compare candidate plans before calculating moves- improve the worst-placed piece and prepare the right pawn break- use prophylaxis without becoming passive- choose favorable exchanges and limit counterplay- defend difficult positions and convert lasting advantagesFifteen deeply explained model games show the method at work in the play of Capablanca, Rubinstein, Botvinnik, Nimzowitsch, Petrosian, Fischer, Karpov, Kasparov, Anand, and Carlsen. Every diagram comes from a legal game position. Complete game scores, verified continuations, planning questions, and clear explanations connect strategic ideas with concrete moves.Written for club players and ambitious improvers, this is a practical chess strategy book you can read from beginning to end and return to whenever a position gives you choices but no obvious answer.Read the position. Choose the direction. Prove the move.…

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. What if the world really does work like a chessboard? Chess teaches foresight, patience, sacrifice, timing, and the discipline of consequences. These are rare virtues in politics. But politics is not chess. Citizens are not pawns. Nations are not pieces. A policy does not end when the move is played. If Chess Players Ruled the World is a philosophical and political journey through the most dangerous metaphor in power. It explores what governments can learn from chess, and what they must never copy from it. Inside you will discover: why rulers, diplomats, and strategists keep returning to chess languagewhat Benjamin Franklin saw in chess as moral educationhow geopolitics turned the world into a grand chessboardwhy the Cuban Missile Crisis was a lesson in avoiding checkmatewhat game theory reveals about threats, bargaining, and cooperationwhy citizens must never be treated as pawnshow democracy, local knowledge, and institutions challenge the mastermind fantasywhat AI and chess engines suggest about the future of strategic governmenttwelve case studies and twelve governance thought experiments This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - They did not build one champion. They built a method.For much of the twentieth century, Soviet chess produced an extraordinary succession of world champions. Behind them stood something larger than talent: a connected system of clubs, coaches, publications, classifications, analytical groups, and demanding competition.The Soviet Chess School explains how that system worked, why it produced radically different champions, and which parts of its method still shape modern chess.Inside you will discover: - how pre-revolutionary Russian chess became a public Soviet institution- how clubs, schools, workplaces, and youth organizations widened access- how coaches turned game evidence into an individual training program- what Botvinnik's scientific method actually meant in practice- how self-analysis, opening laboratories, publications, and match teams preserved knowledge- why strong internal competition became the system's most demanding teacher- how state support created opportunity while also exercising political control- why Smyslov, Tal, Petrosian, Spassky, Karpov, and Kasparov emerged with such different styles- how women's chess, regional centers, and individual coaches expanded the institution beyond its most famous champions- how Soviet training practices survived after 1991 and entered global chessEight exact historical positions connect the institutional story to concrete decisions, with original explanations of preparation, coordination, restriction, initiative, and individual style.Study the system. Question the system. Keep the method. …