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Mindful Chess

Utgivelsesdato Januar 2024
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The Dutch Grandmaster Paul van der Sterren was a professional chess player for over twenty years. At the peak of his career, he qualified for the Candidate Matches for the World Championship and was only four victories away from the World Title. In Mindful Chess, you will get his long and short answer to whether meditation or mindfulness will help your chess.

As a boy, Van der Sterren became fascinated by chess and became a gladiator at the chess board. To quote Theodore Roosevelt, he met with both victory and defeat, much joy and suffering. When, later in life, he discovered vipassana meditation, he met again with joy and suffering and approached these issues with the same total devotion as he had brought to chessthousands and thousands of hours on the cushion and studying Buddhist literature.

The reader will follow the two journeys through chess and meditation. And find answers to questions such as: What is chess? What is meditation? Who am I? What is I? Or will the answer elude you, is too much inexplainable and unknowable?

Paul van der Sterren (1956) was a professional chess player for over twenty years. At the peak of his career, the Dutch grandmaster qualified for the Candidate Matches for the World Championship and was only four victories away from the World Title. He is the bestselling author of Fundamental Chess Openings (Gambit Publishers). In 2023 New In Chess will publish his books: Mindful Chess and In Black and White - a spiritual and a chess autobiography.

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Innhold
007 Preface
009 Introduction
Setting up the pieces
015 About chess
021 About mindfulness
030 About the unknowable
The Opening
037 Getting hooked
043 Help!
050 Logic
054 Being in control
061 Nothing won, nothing lost
066 Nonduality, the black hole
The Middlegame
071 Boredom and loneliness
078 Fear, come and guide me
083 The real cake
087 The power of concentration
099 Can we have quiet, please!
105 Chess is my life
The Endgame
111 Facing the double-edged sword
115 The gateway to the unknown
119 The Afterlife
122 Epilogue
125 Recommended further reading
127 Acknowledgments
Detaljert info
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Type Bok
Språk Engelsk
Antall sider 128