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How Life Imitates Chess

By Garry Kasparov
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Garry Kasparov, the most successful chess player ever, shares profound insights into viewing life through the lens of chess strategy. Drawing from his extraordinary career as the youngest undisputed World Chess Champion, Kasparov explores how strategic thinking applies beyond the board, influencing business, politics, and personal success. He includes instructive stories from his own games and those of great strategists like Winston Churchill and Steve Jobs, illustrating how strategic decisions shape outcomes in life as much as in chess.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in biographies, strategy, and personal development. Fans of chess and those seeking inspirational approaches to decision-making and leadership will find Kasparov’s insights particularly compelling.

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The most successful chess player 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.

The Strategies Behind a Successful Life from the Legendary Grandmaster, Now with a New Foreword

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

For over twenty years, Garry Kasparov dominated the world of chess. As the youngest ever undisputed World Champion, known for confounding his opponents at every move and breaking record after record, Kasparov was asked the same question time and time again: what makes a champion?

Drawing on a wealth of revealing and instructive stories, from the most intense moments of his greatest games to the world-changing decisions of history's greatest strategists such as Winston Churchill and Steve Jobs, Kasparov reveals the strategic ways of thinking that always give a player - in the game of life as well as chess - the edge.

Praise for Garry Kasparov

'I've never seen someone with such a feel for dynamics in complex positions' - Magnus Carlsen, World Chess Champion

'There is nothing in chess he has been unable to deal with' - Vladimir Kramnik, Chess Grandmaster

'Mr. Kasparov is not only one of the world's smartest men, he is also among its bravest.' - Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781529156294

Publisher: Cornerstone

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 November 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin (Cornerstone)

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 204g

Pages: 288

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About the Author

Garry Kasparov is the greatest chess player of all time, world champion at the age of twenty-two and the top ranked player in the world for two decades. His matches against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue put chess and artificial intelligence on front pages around the world. Kasparov writes frequently for many major publications on world affairs and AI. He lectures widely to business and academic audiences on decision making and the human-machine relationship. The Kasparov Chess Foundation promotes chess in schools, and he is the chairman of the Human Rights Foundation and the Renew Democracy Initiative. Kasparov's books include Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped (2015), Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins (2017) and the acclaimed chess series My Great Predecessors and Kasparov on Kasparov. He lives in New York City.

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