Libro en inglés.

El rendimiento sobre el tablero no depende sólo de las habilidades puramente ajedrecísticas. Ser un ganador también requiere una preparación mental, capaz de lidiar con mucho estrés y reveses durante horas de concentración ininterrumpida.

Al igual que las habilidades ajedrecísticas, la dureza mental puede también ser entrenada. Hay simples pasos que el lector puede realizar que le ayudarán a llegar a su potencial. Werner Schweitzer, entrenador mental profesional y jugador de ajedrez, ha trabajado con equipos de ajedrez y jugadores individuales durante muchos años.

Your performance at the board does not only depend on your pure chess skills. Being a winner also requires a mindset that is able to cope with lots of stress and setbacks during hours of uninterrupted concentration.

Just like technical chess skills, mental toughness can be trained. There are simple steps you can take that will help you to better realize 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 presents practical tips and tools that will help you to improve 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 knows from experience which mental factors have impact on a chess player’s performance. Schweitzer has been coaching players and teams for many years.