How Life Imitates Chess

How Life Imitates Chess

by Garry Kasparov (Author)

Synopsis

'In this book, chess is a teacher, and I aim to show it is a great one.' Garry Kasparov World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov shares the powerful secrets of strategy he has learned from dominating the world's most intellectually challenging game for two decades - lessons about mastering the strategic and emotional skills to navigate life's toughest challenges and maximise success no matter how tough the competition. Drawing on a wealth of revealing and instructive stories, not only from his finest games, but also from a wide-ranging and perceptive knowledge of current affairs, Kasparov reveals the strategic ways of thinking that always give a player - in life as in chess - the edge. With a raconteur's engaging charm, a great chess strategist takes us inside a brilliant strategic mind. As Sun Tzu distilled the secrets of the art of war and Machiavelli unveiled the lessons to be learned from courtly intrigue, Garry Kasparov - a player whose record is likely never to be rivalled - reveals how and why the game of chess is a fitting and powerful teacher, of how to be prepared for, and how to win in, even the most competitive situations.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: Export / Airport Ed
Publisher: William Heinemann
Published: 06 Apr 2006

ISBN 10: 0434015407
ISBN 13: 9780434015405
Book Overview: The most successful chess player of all time shares his insights into life as a game of strategy, drawing on his own experiences as a chess champion and life in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia.

Author Bio
Born in Azerbaijan in 1963, Garry Kasparov became world chess champion at the age of twenty-two. He was world number one until his retirement from competitive chess in 2005; no previous champion has retained the No 1 position for anything like as long. He lives in Moscow.