We all have an intuitive feeling of the stress, pressure and frustration on the path to winning a World Championship in sport, but rarely will you get as unfiltered and raw an insight into the struggle to succeed as in The Mental Game.
Aleksandra Maltsevskaya won the 2018 World Junior Championship and 2022 European Rapid Championship. This book reveals the inside story of an 18-month period in which she worked with Grandmaster Alexander Galkin. A year later, Maltsevskaya became World Junior Champion. Galkin holds nothing back in revealing the highs, lows, jubilations and frustrations that were experienced in their collaboration, all while providing expert insights that will benefit chess players and coaches alike. The book contains a wealth of bonus material, including all eleven annotated games from Maltsevskaya’s World Championship victory.
Content: 004 Key to Symbols Used 005 Publisher’s Foreword 008 About the Author 009 Introduction 011 1) Unfinished Journeys of Self-improvement: First Stage (Aug. – Dec. 2015) 035 2) Second Stage (January – June 2016) 119 3) Third Stage (August 2016 – January 2017) 201 4) World Champion! 259 Appendix A – Recent Games and Puzzles 271 Appendix B – Exercises 275 Appendix C – Solutions 281 Appendix D – Additional Messages from Trainer to Student 286 Name Index
