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How life imitates chess, making the right moves, from the board to the boardroom, Garry Kasparov ; with Mig Greengard

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How life imitates chess

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Garry Kasparov ; with Mig Greengard

making the right moves, from the board to the boardroom

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. Widely considered the greatest chess player that ever lived, 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.--From publisher description

Opening gambit -- The lesson -- Strategy -- Strategy and tactics at work -- Calculation -- Talent -- Preparation -- MTQ: material, time, quality -- Exchanges and imbalances -- Phases of the game -- The attacker's advantage -- Question success -- The inner game -- Man vs. machine -- Intuition -- Crisis point -- Endgame