How Life Imitates Chess

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It might also be useful for someone interested in chess too, but that was not Kasporav's target audience. Just as our evaluation must encompass material, time and quality, our range of views must be able to answer everything from the "What" to the "Why" down to the "How". The last chapter of the book seems particularly poignant at the moment, in which he details his move into politics as a pro-democracy activist and direct opponent of Putin. Chess in America is overshadowed by Bobby Fischer, a player perhaps even more gifted and charismatic than Kasparov. Más allá de su capacidad técnica en ajedrez, su sorprendente habilidad comicativa como escritor y visión clara de negocios, Kasparov me maravilló y gratamente sorprendió con su valentía para defender las libertades políticas de su pueblo y oponer resistencia a los abusos del gobierno de Putin.

Garry Kasparov es considerado el mejor jugador de la historia, y no tiene ningún prurito en autodefinirse así. 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. There is the pointless acronym, MTQ (Material, Time, Quality), which sets up the baffling sub-chapter: 'MTQ on the home front'. stato anche il maggiore avversario politico di Vladimir Putin, venendo per questo arrestato più e più volte dalla polizia russa. Más tarde, el temor por su seguridad personal lo llevó a exiliarse en Nueva York, donde hasta hoy sigue viviendo y odiando a Vladimir Putin.

I understand that the book is aimed at a business book audience and assumes no knowledge of the rules of chess, but let's be real, any business person who picks up this book will probably at the very least know the rules. However, in the book he tells us more than one of the mistakes he´s made and how his work in chess helped him prepare for being one of the heads of the political reform for the post soviet democratic Russia. I don't think there is enough content for it to be a whole book and I won't be reading it again for sure.

Il libro ha sicuramente un contenuto autobiografico, ma è anche una parziale storia degli scacchi e un manuale per il miglioramento dell'efficienza personale e di motivazione manageriale. Campione del mondo di scacchi all'età di 21 anni, titolo che ha detenuto poi per ben 15 anni, è stato definito come il più grande giocatore di scacchi di tutti i tempi. It's a remarkably honest audiobook in which Kasparov—one of the world's most celebrated and successful competitors—details both his blunders and his victories, always with the intent to enable readers to absorb his lessons and do better for themselves.It would have been even better if he could then talk about where and when we could actually apply chess principles in life, and where/when not, and why. There's a good anecdote here and there, and if you haven't read Kasparov's wonderful My Great Predecessors you may enjoy some of the material he's summarised from it.