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.
Most chess games end in the middlegame. Therefore, to achieve good results, you have to play well at this stage of the game. This middlegame textbook by Grandmaster Alexander Galkin, who was named Children's Trainer of the Year in 2016 by the Russian Chess Federation, and Woman International Master Anastasia Travkina, provides a large volume of practical knowledge. The vast majority of middlegame tactics and positional textbooks contain a selection of positions and exercises where the student is asked to find a tactic, carry out an attack against the enemy king or choose the right positional approach based on certain "rules". However, there is not much focus on the mistake by one of the players that led to the critical position where the combination, decisive attack or positional improvement became possible.In this book, aimed at strong tournament players (1900-2300 Elo or fast improving juniors) the authors introduce a wider approach to developing middlegame tactical and positional skills that a formidable chess player needs. Specifically, they present 111 positions from games of grandmasters played in 2019, including super-GMs such as Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Ding Liren, Anish Giri, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Daniil Dubov, Wesley So, Hikaru Nakamura, Levon Aronian, and Wang Hao, in which they first explain the mistake made by one of the players in underestimating their opponent's counterplay, then they analyze how the game progressed where punishment for the mistake is meted out. After that, they return to the starting position to demonstrate the correct or a more promising continuation. Therefore, the text is structured so that each challenge contains the starting diagram twice - before the moves in the actual game, and then, on the page overleaf, before the solution.There are numerous elements that a chess player should keep in mind in the middlegame and the authors have designed this book to address specific middle-game thematic mistakes: unsound sacrifices, creating imaginary threats, imaginary defense against threats, pawn-grabbing, give check or attack material - which is best?, wrong evaluation of changes to the pawn structure, lack of vigilance in decision-making, replacing strategy with tactics and taking wrong positional decisions.Studying these key fragments from grandmaster games will help a player to develop their middlegame approach. Firstly, the student analyzes why a move or series of moves by one of the players was erroneous. What counterplay by the opponent did the player making the mistake underestimate? Secondly, armed with this answer, the student can review the position to try and figure out the better move. If the student is working with a coach, then the coach should first set up the position on the board, demonstrate the erroneous move played, and ask the student to find the refutation to that bad move. After the refutation is found by the student, the coach should once again set up the critical position and ask the student to find the strongest continuation for the initial player. This may be one or more moves, depending on the position. Naturally, in the case of self-study the student can change their approach, either trying to figure out the refutation to the error by covering up the subsequent text, or simply studying the moves in the game before trying to find the better continuation, which is detailed overleaf together with the starting diagram.
This book aims to give you a wealth of self-study knowledge about handling different types of endings that occur frequently but on which there is not much literature analyzing recent games. Imbalanced material endgames involving rooks are a key focus of the book, covering three-fifths of the material, and all endings in the book feature at least one rook. The vast majority of games are taken from the last few years, including many from 2021-2022. Like the author's previous endgame book published with Elk and Ruby, 101 Endgame Crimes and Punishments (2020), this one is aimed at strong tournament players (1900-2300 Elo) and fast improving juniors.Specifically, this book covers the following endings: rook vs. minor piece (chapter 1), rook vs. a pair of minor pieces (chapter 2), rook and minor piece vs. rook and minor piece, rook and minor piece vs. rook, rook and minor piece vs. two minor pieces, rook and minor piece vs. a pair of rooks, and rook and minor piece vs. queen (all in chapter 3). The material arrangement principles applied for this book are largely consistent with those adopted for the author's books published earlier. He has selected examples only from games played over the board and in which at least one of the players is a grandmaster. Six of the included games were played by world champion Magnus Carlsen. Other examples come from games by top players such as former world champions Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik and Vishy Anand, as well as Ian Nepomniachtchi, Ding Liren, Hikaru Nakamura, Sam Shankland, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Judit Polgar, Gata Kamsky, Daniil Dubov and others. Eight of the 101 examples in this book come from the author's own games.Endgame positions have been selected so that a person studying the book can see the critical moments of play, such as a single or a series of errors that led to a loss or when one of the sides missed a winning move. Before playing through the correct continuation the reader is advised to try and work it out from the initial diagram.
This collection of original contemporary parables and stories written by the authors for readers and hearers is presented with powerful wisdom and truths through the telling of stories.Jesus was the master storyteller, and among his best-loved and most remembered words are the parables. Stories are essential for describing the Christian experience. The power of parables and stories lies in their ability to address matters of the heart in ways akin to poetry. As an aid to preaching and teaching, parables provide powerful windows to truths that can be grasped by the hearer on many levels.The collection of parables and stories in this book addresses common themes of the Christian life: faith, fear, discipleship, discipline, death, life, salvation, and hope. Some are parables in the strict sense of the term; others are fables and genre stories. Like any good story, each will speak to the listeners at whatever level of readiness and understanding they bring to the story.Each story includes corresponding Bible passages and a list of study questions for pondering various aspects of the story, either in personal reflection or group study.Israel Galindo is Associate Dean for Lifelong Learning at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA.Alexander O. Gonzalez is an educator, teacher, and storyteller.
Eta kniga javljaetsja pervoj popytkoj rekonstruirovat odin iz kljuchevykh sjuzhetov forsirovannoj modernizatsii ukrainskoj kultury v XX veke - istoriju literaturnoj teorii i kritiki v sovetskoj chasti Ukrainy v 1920 e - nachale 1930 kh godov. Ob ukrainskoj kulturnoj modernizatsii 1920 kh napisano nemalo, odnako za chastnymi sluchajami i ideologicheskimi predpochtenijami poroj ne vidno bolshoj kartiny - nastojaschej revoljutsii v literaturnoj mysli i tekhnike, proizoshedshej v uslovijakh sovetskogo stroitelstva. Eto istorija o tom, kak obscherevoljutsionnyj proekt pereplelsja s protsessom stanovlenija natsii. V "Atlantide sovetskogo natsmodernizma" tschatelno vossozdan shirokij kulturno-istoricheskij i politiko-ideologicheskij kontekst razvitija ukrainskogo literaturovedenija s uchetom slozhnoj vzaimosvjazi mezhdu universalnymi avangardnymi khudozhestvennymi kontseptsijami i modernoj natsionalno-orientirovannoj kulturoj. Galina Babak - istorik literatury, vypusknitsa doktorantury Karlova universiteta (Praga), nauchnyj sotrudnik New Europe College (Bukharest). Aleksandr Dmitriev - veduschij nauchnyj sotrudnik IGITI imeni A. V. Poletaeva, dotsent Shkoly istoricheskikh nauk, Natsionalnyj issledovatelskij universitet "Vysshaja shkola ekonomiki".
Devido ao alto custo dos fertilizantes e a conscientiza o em prol de uma agricultura sustent vel e menos poluente, tem aumentado a utiliza o de inoculantes contendo bact rias diazotr ficas, como o Azospirillum brasilense que propicia a fixa o biol gica de nitrog nio tem a o fitohormonal, promovendo maior desenvolvimento do sistema radicular, absor o de gua e nutrientes, com reflexos positivos no crescimento e produtividade de gr os de milho. Outra pr tica, que exerce in meros benef cios sobre gram neas como o milho, principalmente quando as plantas s o submetidas a estresses bi ticos e abi ticos, uso do sil cio que ben fico em condi es clim ticas adversas (cada vez mais comuns) e solos cidos como os do Cerrado brasileiro. Neste contexto, objetivou-se avaliar o efeito de formas de inocula o com A. brasilense associado aplica o de sil cio na forma de corretivo de acidez em compara o com calc rio dolom tico.
Die Monographie basiert auf einer systematischen und umfassenden Untersuchung des allgemeinen theoretischen Charakters von Rechtsregimen und von pr ferenziellen Rechtsregimen als deren Variante.Diese Publikation enth lt eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten Fragen zur Definition des Begriffs und des Wesens von Rechtsregimen durch die Festlegung ihrer Merkmale; berlegungen zu den Gr nden f r die Klassifizierung von Rechtsregimen; Aufzeigen der Besonderheiten von pr ferenziellen Rechtsregimen als spezielle Art von Rechtsregimen; Untersuchung der Ziele, Aufgaben und Struktur dieser Rechtsregime, Merkmale ihrer technischen und rechtlichen Gestaltung, Untersuchung der in- und ausl ndischen Erfahrungen mit der Verbesserung pr ferenzieller Rechtsregime; Untersuchung der Erfahrungen der Russischen F deration im Bereich der Rechtsregime. Die Studie enth lt Schlussfolgerungen und Vorschl ge, die in der wissenschaftlichen Forschung und der Strafverfolgungspraxis genutzt werden k nnen.
La monographie est bas e sur une tude syst matique et compl te de la nature th orique g n rale des r gimes juridiques et des r gimes juridiques pr f rentiels en tant que leur vari t .Cette publication contient un r sum des principales questions concernant la d finition du concept et de l'essence des r gimes juridiques en tablissant leurs caract ristiques attributives; l'examen des motifs de la classification des r gimes juridiques; la mise en vidence des caract ristiques sp cifiques des r gimes juridiques pr f rentiels en tant que type sp cial de r gimes juridiques; la recherche des buts, des objectifs, des fonctions et de la structure de ces r gimes juridiques, les caract ristiques de leur conception technique et juridique, l' tude de l'exp rience nationale et trang re de l'am lioration des r gimes juridiques pr f rentiels. L' tude contient des conclusions et des propositions qui peuvent tre utilis es dans la recherche scientifique et dans la pratique des forces de l'ordre.
La monografia si basa su uno studio sistematico e completo della natura teorica generale dei regimi giuridici e dei regimi giuridici preferenziali come loro variet .Questa pubblicazione contiene una sintesi delle principali questioni riguardanti la definizione del concetto e dell'essenza dei regimi giuridici, stabilendo le loro caratteristiche attributive; la considerazione dei motivi per la classificazione dei regimi giuridici; la rivelazione delle caratteristiche specifiche dei regimi giuridici preferenziali come tipo speciale di regimi giuridici; lo studio degli scopi, degli obiettivi, delle funzioni e della struttura di questi regimi giuridici, le caratteristiche della loro progettazione tecnica e giuridica, lo studio delle esperienze nazionali ed estere di miglioramento dei regimi giuridici preferenziali; lo studio dell'esperienza della Federazione Russa nel campo dei regimi giuridici. Lo studio contiene conclusioni e proposte che possono essere utilizzate nella ricerca scientifica e nella pratica delle forze dell'ordine.
A monografia baseia-se num estudo sistem tico e abrangente da natureza te rica geral dos regimes jur dicos e dos regimes jur dicos preferenciais como a sua variedade.Esta publica o cont m um resumo das principais quest es relativas defini o do conceito e ess ncia dos regimes jur dicos, estabelecendo as suas caracter sticas atributivas; considera o dos fundamentos para a classifica o dos regimes jur dicos; revela o das caracter sticas espec ficas dos regimes jur dicos preferenciais como um tipo especial de regimes jur dicos; estudo das metas, objectivos, fun es e estrutura destes regimes jur dicos, caracter sticas da sua concep o t cnica e jur dica, estudo da experi ncia nacional e estrangeira de melhoria dos regimes jur dicos preferenciais; estudo da experi ncia da Federa o Russa no dom nio dos regimes jur dicos. O estudo cont m conclus es e propostas que podem ser utilizadas na investiga o cient fica e na pr tica da aplica o da lei.
