GM Boris Gulko is one of the few chess players to have a plus score against Garry Kasparov, and is also the only man to have been both Soviet and U.S. Chess Champion. He has a Master’s degree in Psychology from Moscow State University.Dr Joel Sneed is a Professor of Psychology at the City University of New York and a keen amateur chess player.

There are 12 chapters and they cover topics from 'Perception' through to 'Improving Your Chess Psychology'. Each chapter presents relevant games or, more commonly snippets with pertinent annotations. Every chapter is interesting; there is certainly no flab here and the whole book reads very well.