How Life Imitates Chess - Hardcover

Kasparov, Garry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0434014109 ISBN 13: 9780434014101

Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd, 2007

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. 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 own nemesis, Vladimir Kramnik. 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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Review:

"'In this book, chess is a teacher, and I aim to show it is a great one.' Garry Kasparov"

From the Publisher:

The most successful chess player of our time - indeed of all time - shares his insights into life as a game of strategy, drawing on his own story as well as the worlds of business and politics.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0434014109
• ISBN 13: 9780434014101
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288