How Life Imitates Chess

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Anticipation of something’s happening can be more powerful than the event itself or, put another way, is inseparable from the event itself. Chess, along with music and mathematics, is one of the few pursuits in which superior ability and originality can manifest at a young age. One of the world's most highly regarded strategists uses his mastery of the world's most ancient and subtle game to show readers how chess's tools can make them more successful in business and in life. is the question that separates the functionaries from visionaries, mere tacticians from strategists. He has tried to use as minimum technical terms as possible(or has explained them clearly) id doing so to cater to a wider audience.

Más allá de su capacidad técnica en ajedrez, su sorprendente habilidad comicativa como escritor y visión clara de negocios, Kasparov me maravilló y gratamente sorprendió con su valentía para defender las libertades políticas de su pueblo y oponer resistencia a los abusos del gobierno de Putin. He draws specific lessons from the games, like how Tal relied in his intuition to sac a knight, or how Karpov retuned a material advantage for a positional advantage or how he made the wrong knight move under time pressure.

Long-term success is impossible if you let your heat-of-the-moment reactions trump careful planning. He retired from chess not to spend more time his family, nor even to be President of Russia, but to change the infrastructure of Russian politics.

In chess as in life we total up the pluses and minuses in a position, then go to work figuring out how to improve our side of the ledger. 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. In this book, Kasporav attempts to translate his knowledge and experience in chess to that of business or "life". For example, in chess one can trade material (chess pieces) for a higher-quality position on the board. This game serves as a testament to my philosophy of preferring time over material, favoring dynamic factors over static factors.The final chapter detailing the final fight of Kasparov with his famous opponent, Karpov, is interesting.

It was Fischer who said of women chess players: 'They can't concentrate, they don't have stamina, and they aren't creative. Sticking with a plan when you are winning seems simple but it it's easy to become over confident and get caught up on events.

Kasparov has distilled the lessons he learned over a lifetime as a Chess grandmaster to cover the practical side—tactics, strategy, preparation—as well as the subtler, more human arts of using memory, intuition, and imagination.