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How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom

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ISBN: 9781596918276
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Garry Kasparov was the highest-rated chess player in the world for over twenty years and is widely considered the greatest player that ever lived. In How Life Imitates Chess Kasparov distills the lessons he learned over a lifetime as a Grandmaster to offer a primer on successful decision-making: how to evaluate opportunities, anticipate the future, devise winning strategies. 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. Kasparov takes us through the great matches of his career, including legendary duels against both man (Grandmaster Anatoly Karpov) and machine (IBM chess supercomputer Deep Blue), enhancing the lessons of his many experiences with examples from politics, literature, sports and military history.


With candor, wisdom, and humor, Kasparov recounts his victories and his blunders, both from his years as a world-class competitor as well as his new life as a political leader in Russia. An inspiring book that combines unique strategic insight with personal memoir, How Life Imitates Chess is a glimpse inside the mind of one of today's greatest and most innovative thinkers.

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.

HUGE MEDIA PRESENCE: Kasparov, a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, has been featured on 60 Minutes, The Colbert Report, Real Time with Bill Maher, Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, and Hardball with Chris Matthews, to name just a few. He will continue to be in the media spotlight for the foreseeable future.


WITH NEW FOREWORD: The paperback edition will feature a Foreword by Garry, reflecting his continuing and high-profile activities in the worlds of politics and business.


KASPAROV ON STRATEGY: There's no more powerful match of author and subject. Today a leading political strategist in Russia and recently referred to by the Wash Post as "one of the most formidable brains of our era" everyone-from the media to the White House-is listening to him and seeking him out.


POPULAR SPEAKER: Like Malcolm Gladwell, Thomas Friedman, Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner, he's a non-business person who has translated his expertise to the business world and is in much demand on the lecture circuit.


POPULARITY OF CHESS: "Searching For Bobby Fischer" helped fuel a surging popularity in chess over the past 10 years. GK's Foundation developed a chess curriculum for schools nation-wide. Books in his "My Great Predecessors" series have sold 100,000+

Kasparov has emerged as the most prominent man in what is called the Other Russia-a coalition of Putin's most outspoken critics.

One of the most formidable brains of our era....fast-talking, exuberant, indigant one moment and laughing sardonically the next - Kasparov clearly relishes the fight.

Riveting...[Kasparov] makes his debut as a management guru. If retired jocks can write inspirational books, I see no reason to exclude retired chess luminaries from the field of management advice, and executives will find Kasparov's prescriptions useful. The man is a genius, for Pete's sake.

  • Title: How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom
  • Author: Garry Kasparov
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
  • Print Publication Date: 2010
  • Logos Release Date: 2024
  • Pages: 240
  • Language: English
  • Resources: 1
  • Format: Digital › Ebook
  • ISBNs: 9781596918276, 9781596913882, 1596913886, 1596918276
  • Resource ID: LLS:9781596918276
  • Resource Type: Monograph
  • Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T15:24:28Z
Garry Kasparov grew up in Baku, Azerbaijan (USSR) and became the youngest ever world chess champion in 1985 at the age of 22. He held that title until 2000. He retired from professional chess in March 2005 to found the United Civil Front in Russia, and has dedicated himself to establishing free and fair elections in his homeland. A longtime contributing editor at The Wall Street Journal, Kasparov travels around the world to address corporations and business audiences on strategy and leadership, and he appears frequently in the international media to talk about both chess and politics. When not traveling he divides his time between Moscow and St. Petersburg.

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