How Life Imitates Chess

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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. Kasparov shares his lessons learnt at the chessboard and compares them to historical blunders and business failures e. 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. Churchill disse: «Il successo non è definitivo, il fallimento non è fatale: quello che conta è il coraggio di continuare». Nor is genius sufficient to overcome the problems, as Garry Kasparov proves with How Life Imitates Chess.

It was Fischer who said of women chess players: 'They can't concentrate, they don't have stamina, and they aren't creative. There is the pointless acronym, MTQ (Material, Time, Quality), which sets up the baffling sub-chapter: 'MTQ on the home front'.

In this book, Kasporav attempts to translate his knowledge and experience in chess to that of business or "life". L'intenzione di Kasparov in questo libro è quella di mostrare come strategia e tattica davanti alla scacchiera possano essere trasposte alla vita reale. Richard Feynman, the Nobel laureate physicist believed that playing bongos made him a better physicist. You would forgive yourself if you thought this book would give you new insight about how chess can be applied to life. The first law of thermodynamics tells us that the total amount of energy in a system is constant, that if we move energy into one area, we lose an equal amount from another.

This book is more about chess and I was disappointed a little bit that it did not contain enough examples of how he applied these principles to the political world.I believe that if opportunity isn’t provided at a young age, it can be created later in adulthood through discipline and imaginative involvement in the pursuits we care about.

However, he does not feel intimidated by other politicians, because he spent his entire life under an intense spotlight. How Life Imitates Chess is a primer on how to think, make decisions, prepare strategies and anticipate the future. 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.I find it all a bit creepy, reminds me of Jimmy Saville and the Duchess (that'll mean little to you, so just trust me). A good deal is said on dealing with crisis and growth, on stepping out of your comfort zone, on how rivals help you grasp your own purpose, acknowledging failure as the case may be, and use it as a springboard to change gears and reinvent yourself. 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. The sacrifice was not altogher obvious, and there was a large number of possible variations, but when I conscientiously began to work through them, I found, to my horror, that nothing would come of it. And even if they don't, it's not hard to include literally two pages showing the basics of how the pieces move and how algebraic notation works.

In other words Kasporav merely talked about a chess principle, talked about how it applied to his own chess game, then pulled some random example from history that seem to relate to the chess principle he was talking about. For example, in chess one can trade material (chess pieces) for a higher-quality position on the board.Crisis really means a turning point, a critical moment when the stakes are high and the outcome uncertain. It was Fischer who defeated Boris Spassky in Iceland in the sporting contest that more than any other symbolised the Cold War.