How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom

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One of the most highly regarded strategists of our time teaches us how the tools that made him a world chess champion can make us more successful in business and in life.

Garry Kasparov was the highest-rated chess player in the world for over twenty years and is widely considered the greatest player that ever lived. In How Life Imitates Chess Kasparov distills the lessons he learned over a lifetime as a Grandmaster to offer a primer on successful decision-making: how to evaluate opportunities, anticipate the future, devise winning strategies. He relates in a lively, original way all the fundamentals, from the nuts and bolts of strategy, evaluation, and preparation to the subtler, more human arts of developing a personal style and using memory, intuition, imagination and even fantasy. Kasparov takes us through the great matches of his career, including legendary duels against both man and machine , enhancing the lessons of his many experiences with examples from politics, literature, sports and military history.

With candor, wisdom, and humor, Kasparov recounts his victories and his blunders, both from his years as a world-class competitor as well as his new life as a political leader in Russia. An inspiring book that combines unique strategic insight with personal memoir, How Life Imitates Chess is a glimpse inside the mind of one of today's greatest and most innovative thinkers.

Language: English

Pages: 240

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

Release: October 02, 2007

ISBN: 1596913878

ISBN 13: 9781596913875

How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom

Garry Kasparov

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Language: English

Pages: 240

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Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

Release: October 02, 2007

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How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom

How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom

How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom

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