<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xml:lang="en-US" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><id>https://lichess.org/@/IgorSmirnovRCA/blog</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://lichess.org/@/IgorSmirnovRCA/blog" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://lichess.org/@/IgorSmirnovRCA/blog.atom" /><title>IgorSmirnovRCA's Blog</title><updated>2024-11-06T12:02:41.494Z</updated><entry><id>https://lichess.org/@/IgorSmirnovRCA/blog/how-psychology-helped-me-become-a-chess-grandmaster/2kczdmkM</id><published>2024-11-06T12:02:41.494Z</published><updated>2024-11-06T12:02:41.494Z</updated><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://lichess.org/@/IgorSmirnovRCA/blog/how-psychology-helped-me-become-a-chess-grandmaster/2kczdmkM" /><title>How Psychology Helped Me Become a Chess Grandmaster</title><category term="Off_topic" label="Off topic" scheme="https://lichess.org/blog/topic/Off_topic"></category><category term="Chess" label="Chess" scheme="https://lichess.org/blog/topic/Chess"></category><content type="html">&lt;img class=&quot;ublog-post-image&quot; width=&quot;880&quot; height=&quot;550&quot; alt=&quot;GM Igor Smirnov behind a chess set&quot; src=&quot;https://image.lichess1.org/display?fmt=webp&amp;amp;h=550&amp;amp;op=thumbnail&amp;amp;path=igorsmirnovrca:ublog:2kczdmkM:Osro8R6f.webp&amp;amp;w=880&amp;amp;sig=f3bcb93f34a40d36745733a84ab352be9a66394c&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the best players of all time, Bobby Fischer, famously said, “I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves.” But psychology has a lot to do with whether a player finds those good movies. It’s not so much about knowing what or how your opponents think; rather, it’s about your mindset and how you think about the game that matters most.   As important as strategy and tactics are in the game, the most important things I learned about chess dealt more with the internal psychological battles. Today, I will share with you some of the key insights I learned from chess that has helped me become a chess grandmaster.</content><media:thumbnail url="https://image.lichess1.org/display?fmt=webp&amp;h=550&amp;op=thumbnail&amp;path=igorsmirnovrca:ublog:2kczdmkM:Osro8R6f.webp&amp;w=880&amp;sig=f3bcb93f34a40d36745733a84ab352be9a66394c"></media:thumbnail><author><name>GM IgorSmirnovRCA</name></author></entry></feed>