On the basis of an analytical review of scientific and methodological literature, generalization of documentary materials, and a systematic approach, the general and particular laws of the system and the ‘subsystem’ of sports training in mind sports are revealed. Given the specificity of the competition and the training process in athletes of mind sports, associated
with abstract-gaming activities and lack of physical activity, the entire training system is considered from general pedagogical positions as a process of applied-specialized training and education. the basis of the training system in mind sports is competences (cognitive, creative, communicative, social), formed through the implementation of didactic, specific principles
of sports training and specific principles of organizing educational and cognitive activity and the ‘subsystem’ of sports training, within the framework of competitions and sports training. the specific principles of educational and cognitive activity include the strength of learning, emotional and problematic learning, the connection of theory with practice, validity, cyclical development, modelling, computerization, and self-management, competitive activity in the context of specific features in the organization of full-time and distance competitions, the system of conducting and determining sports result. Sports training is aimed at the development of sports form through intellectual, specially practical, psychological, and physical training, which acts as an additional one. the whole ‘system’ and its ‘subsystem’ are associated with the stages of long-term preparation and systemic factors that affect the entire system.