Cognitive skill training and yogic practice to improve the self-confidence and fluid reasoning of chess players

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of cognitive skill training and yoga on the self-assurance, mental agility, and chess performance of male participants. The purpose of the research was to do this by randomly selecting forty male chess players from the Indian state of Telangana. In this study, ten people were split equally among four groups. Ten individuals were divided into four groups: Group I, which received cognitive skill training (CSTG); Group II, which received yogic practices (YPG), Group III, which received combined training (CTG), and Group IV, which functioned as a control group (CG). Only participants in the Telangana state-level competition during the 2021-22 school years were included for this study. From seventeen to twenty-five years old, the participants' ages ranged. The data for the four groups were collected twice: once just before the training session began and again just after it ended. The groups were cognitive skill training, yogic practices, combination training, and control. On two different days, data was collected for every patient in the morning and afternoon. We used the dependent-'t' test and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) to do statistical analysis on the data that came from the four groups. On selected dependent variables, data were compared both before and immediately after experimental treatments. In order to identify which of the differences between the paired means was statistically significant, we used Scheffe's test as a post hoc test after establishing a significant