One of the most important difference between life and chess is that chess has a goal (win the game), but in the life you need to come up with the goal yourself. Since Kasporav is writing this book for the somewhat business lay person, he doesn't expect them to know anything about chess. And, my favourite, plenty of bonkers juxtapositions: 'Anticipating Nike's ad agency by two centuries, Goethe wrote, "Knowing is not enough; we must apply.

If you have read your share of self-improvement books and other nonfiction books on life and philosophy, you will be disappointed. You should have a solid and well-developed position before going on the attack, is applicable to every field of battle. 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. Kasparov had every reason to be proud of his achievement, which was as much about overcoming himself as about overcoming his adversary. 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.

I find Kasparov overtly sympathetic, as he is quite conscious of his quirks and idiosyncrasies, stating open-handed his shortcomings, his failures both in chess and in life, against Anatoly Karpov, against Tigran Petrossian, against Veselin Topalov, his defeat against a small child in a real-time strategy videogame. An exquisite chess game annotated and laid down for all time is the closest thing in sport to a musical score.

It’s a bad habit to become over reliant on one skill or way to doing things just because it has in the past worked well for you. Se non si è in grado di elaborare un piano di utilità si può guardare la televisione, giocare o perdere tempo.Una volta diventato "vecchio" verso i quarant'anni (sì, come i matematici, anche gli scacchisti perdono buona parte delle loro capacità creative dopo i 35 anni. Perhaps you should create your own “happiness index,” which can be as simple as a mental or actual list of things that motivate you and give you pleasure and satisfaction. His failure, so far, to have pulled this one off has left him spare time, some of which he uses to lecture chief executives about the antics of other CEOs. What we really want is science that backs up these fairy-tale stories of making gold out of new and exciting things. Better still, for all his unquestionable genius, Kasparov remains humble and self-effacing, quite happy to tell a joke at his own expense.

Fantasy must be backed up by sober evaluation and calculation or you spend your life making beautiful blunders. Kasparov uses his experience in playing chess successfully as an analogy for how to be successful in real life. Just about every young star in any field can give credit to a determined parent giving talent a push. He wants to show you how the skills you pick up from top-level chess can translate into understanding of life in general, and his opening case study, organised around his first World Championship match against Karpov, is inspiring. Gli esseri umani sono straordinariamente creativi nell'escogitare modi per passare il tempo senza costrutto.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. Former world chess champion Kasparov issues a friendly book not so much about chess but rather about some personal insights from his career applying to whatever lies beyond the 64 squares.

in quei momenti che un vero stratega si distingue trovando il sistema per migliorare e rafforzare le proprie posizioni in vista dell’inevitabile conflitto. The further you get, the more it comes across as a bunch of poorly structured notes that Mig Greengard, his long-suffering collaborator, has tried without success to whip into coherent text.

Anticipation of something’s happening can be more powerful than the event itself or, put another way, is inseparable from the event itself. Most of these lessons are based on interesting anecdotes, stories about his own life in chess, or about other chess players. history (French Invasion of Russia, Agincourt, Guerilla tactics in the French and Indian War, John Fisher modernisation of the Royal Navy in the foreshodowing of WWI, Winston Churchill doggedness, Operation Overlord, Octavian v.