In 1999, in Switzerland, conducted a workshop entitled "Psychology of Expertise" where the issue arose due to the interest of chess Gobet psychologist who had conducted many studies regarding why some people reached to be experts at chess and others. After the workshop, several psychologists have agreed to join forces with Gobet and analyze the psychology of games using a board, as was the case of chess. They soon realized that the material on chess hundredfold the material on any other games using the board. More than a hundredfold, because almost every book about a thousand other game of chess, except GO. A limitation of this group of Swiss psychologists was their ignorance of Oriental languages \u200b\u200band could not include the GO and Chinese chess in his studies of board games.
After several years of study produced the expected book and recently could examine it, compare well with the material received during the workshop in Fribourg, 1999. It should be noted that the work of Gobet have been the most recognized of the subject outside Russia, although it is a shame that psychologists Swiss, Poles, Russians and Cubans who have worked on the topic of psychology and chess seem to do it in parallel and without exchanging their views. Psychologists generally known outside Russia some of the GM work and Dr. Nikolai Krogius Malkin, along with some writings of GM Taimanov; also maintain a low opinion on the book of GM Reuben Fine, very misunderstood. The book "How to Think in Chess" by a group of Polish authors seems to maintain the leadership on the issue, although the Cuban psychologists led by Dr. Nery Maceira if they were his most popular work, would also be highly recognized. In fact the Swiss in their work mention their constraint on knowledge of Japanese and Chinese, while his ignorance of Russian did not consider as limiting. Many articles on the psychology of chess appeared in the 7 decades of Soviet chess magazines and 80% of this material has never been translated and published outside the USSR and therefore unknown to the Swiss. A lot of the most valuable material on chess produced in the Soviet Union were published in journals, not books. Just like in the current era, where the most important material is in the internet and not necessarily in bookstores. Many articles published online notables wait long before that accumulated and appear in a book. For example Dvoretsky published in Chess Chess Coffee and Projects, as well as in 64, his articles and then these become part of a new book, but since that first appear and then compiled into a book, you can spend a full year . With other authors have to wait longer.
What it can hold the book of the Swiss is the only written about the psychology of all board games and plus there are many important contributions to understanding the psychology of chess. Reading it reassures me about how important it is that chess coaches do not limit our examination of books that specifically deal with chess, but we to take a glance at the related topics such as Sports Psychology, Critical Reasoning, Pedagogy and even "Fitness" and especially the books of Coaching and Personal Development.
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