How Life Imitates Chess

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Alas, without the facts or experimental data Kasporav's motivational ideas for "life" is just a washed down self-motivational book with chess words for titles.

As Marcel Duchamp said: 'I have come to the conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.history (French Invasion of Russia, Agincourt, Guerilla tactics in the French and Indian War, John Fisher modernisation of the Royal Navy in the foreshodowing of WWI, Winston Churchill doggedness, Operation Overlord, Octavian v. 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.

Kasparov uses his experience in playing chess successfully as an analogy for how to be successful in real life. In this book, Kasporav attempts to translate his knowledge and experience in chess to that of business or "life".I find it all a bit creepy, reminds me of Jimmy Saville and the Duchess (that'll mean little to you, so just trust me).

I would say skip this book and read Kasporav's other books for chess, and read other books based on science for learning more about the secrets of "life".A chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second, when you belive you have the advantage, and the third, when you know you're going to loose! He draws specific lessons from the games, like how Tal relied in his intuition to sac a knight, or how Karpov retuned a material advantage for a positional advantage or how he made the wrong knight move under time pressure. De todas formas, lo recomiendo a cualquier fan del ajedrez, incluso a personas que quieran ver algunas citas interesantes de cómo seguir adelante con tu vida, comparadas al mismo tiempo con partidos de ajedrez o la vida de ajedrecistas históricos. Being told the value is one thing, but only experience really teaches you what those values signify in the “real world” of chess.

We must play the opening phase like a book, the middlegame like a magician and the endgame like a machine. 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.Chess in America is overshadowed by Bobby Fischer, a player perhaps even more gifted and charismatic than Kasparov. That's me I've fiinished this post, which is like chess it has an endgame - like life which has death, but then there are more games, just like reincarnation, which is like chess.