How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (880 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000XE3XIO |
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| Number of Pages | : | 133 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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As Churchill wrote, "Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." If we trust in our abilities they will repay us.' With a raconteur's engaging charm, Garry Kasparov takes us inside a brilliant strategic mind. 'In this book, chess is a teacher, and I aim to show it is a great one.' Garry Kasparov Here Grandmaster and World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov shares the powerful secrets of strategy he has learned from dominating the world's most intellectually challenging game - lessons about mastering the strategic and emotional skills to navigate life's toughest challenges and maximise success no matter how tough the competition. 'I used to attack because it was the only thing I knew. We learn about the great figures of the game, and how their contests have shaped chess history; from Capablanca and Alekhine to Bobby Fischer and Kasparov's nemesis, Vladimir Kramnik. 'Unfortunately, the number of ways to do something wrong always exceeds the number of ways to do it right.' Drawing on a wealth of revealing and instructive stories, not only from the most intense and decisive moments of his greatest games, but also from his wide-ranging and perceptive reading, Kasparo
Forward!: If you could choose five people, living or dead, to play you in chess, who would they be? Kasparov: Don’t you know I have retired as a chess player? Well, I will go with you to the middle with two and a half opponents.4th world chess champion Alexander Alekhine (d. I very much enjoyed these exchanges, learning about these other worlds. On some occasions this anxiety created negative emotions like doubt. I won our first match; the machine won the second. One of the problems this has created is that it creates the illusion, or delusion, that we can achieve perfection in our decisions by accumulating more information. In the period of 2001-2002 I felt I deserved a rematch against Vlad
An Intriguing Book Showing The Correlations Between Business & Chess For Ruminating & Incisive Minds ZyPhReX How Life Imitates Chess by former World Chess Champion and grandmaster Garry Kasparov does an incisive job of showing how life is a mirror for chess. Or is it the opposite?Filled with much erudition regarding the intricacies of life, How Life Imitates Chess sifts through the data points, or perhaps ‘life-lessons’ is a better term, which helped him grow as a chess playe. A big fan of Garry am I Keith Halonen So I read this book even though I am not such a big fan of "the boardroom." Poor Garry has been getting himself arrested lately for being the leader of Russia's opposition party. Did he not see those photos of Putin barechested and packing heat? That could have been interpreted as a clue. I understand he's left the country to live somewhere else in one of the world's 180+ nations . Ego at its most immense proportions! It's painful to give a chess-related book such a poor rating, but this is well deserved. Kasparov wrote this as he was attempting to run for Russion office believing in his "Power of Me" method (this is a term I'm making up and not in the book). It's interesting to see how much Kasparov attributes to himself and only occasionally mentions the importance of his teachers, but this i