New Book: Psychology

[Robert Jasiek]

Psychology, which is my 18th go book, has 144 pages, is written for
players from 15 kyu to 3 dan, and is available for €16 (printed book)
or €8 (PDF file). While everybody is learning or teaching tactics,
strategy and sometimes evaluation, psychology is often neglected. It
is, however, an essential aspect of the game. By avoiding blunders, we
can greatly improve our playing strength with comparatively little
effort. The book helps us to recognise and overcome wishful thinking,
carelessness, other psychological mistakes and their adverse strategic
impact.


Information:
http://home.snafu.de/jasiek/Psychology.html
Sample pages:
http://home.snafu.de/jasiek/Psychology_Sample.pdf
Table of contents:
http://home.snafu.de/jasiek/Psychology_TOC.pdf
Review:
http://home.snafu.de/jasiek/Psychology_Review.html


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Review by the Author


General Specification

* Title: Psychology
* Author: Robert Jasiek
* Publisher: Robert Jasiek
* Edition: 2020
* Language: English
* Price: EUR 16 (book) or EUR 8 (PDF file)*
* Contents: psychology
* ISBN: none
* Printing: good
* Layout: good
* Editing: good
* Pages: 144
* Size: 148mm x 210mm
* Diagrams per Page on Average: 3
* Method of Teaching: principles, examples
* Read when EGF: 15 kyu - 3 dan
* Subjective Rank Improvement: ++
* Subjective Topic Coverage: o
* Subjective Aims' Achievement: ++

Contents

Besides strategy, tactics and evaluation, psychology is the fourth
fundamental aspect of go. Although equally important, it is rarely
taught. This book fills the gap.

Do you expect academic science, such as empirical field studies, or
military wisdom? Neither aspect of psychology is relevant for
practical playing. Instead, the book studies the very frequent types
of unforced errors - the mistakes that we all make but we should never
make. If only we become aware of them at all, we can find the simple,
correct play and improve a few ranks quickly.

Psychological mistakes affect connection and cut, life and death,
attack and defense, sente and other strategic concepts. We learn to
avoid wishful thinking, carelessness, laziness and greed. Finally, the
book teaches time management and how to win a won game.

The 180 examples of the most interesting psychological mistakes are
taken from actual games of the previous five years. My opponents or I
have made the mistakes so that the readers need not repeat them any
more. The book uses an easy learning approach. Every example compares
failure variations with the simple correct moves. Every chapter has a
short, general introduction and one or two simple but powerful
principles.

Controlling one's own psychology can be hard but this is the right
guide to simplicity and awareness of the relevant aspects.

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* = These are the endconsumer prices in EUR according to UStG §19
(small business exempted from VAT).