How Life Imitates Chess

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I believe that if opportunity isn’t provided at a young age, it can be created later in adulthood through discipline and imaginative involvement in the pursuits we care about. Being told the value is one thing, but only experience really teaches you what those values signify in the “real world” of chess. Kasparov shares his lessons learnt at the chessboard and compares them to historical blunders and business failures e. I believe it’s essential to push the boundaries and constantly widen the angle of the lens we use to view the world.

It was Fischer who defeated Boris Spassky in Iceland in the sporting contest that more than any other symbolised the Cold War. Kasparov has distilled the lessons he learned over a lifetime as a Chess grandmaster to cover the practical side—tactics, strategy, preparation—as well as the subtler, more human arts of using memory, intuition, and imagination. Better still, for all his unquestionable genius, Kasparov remains humble and self-effacing, quite happy to tell a joke at his own expense. I really hate it when authors with specific domain expertise try to water down popular books (usually at the urging of their editors). 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.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.

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".Crisis really means a turning point, a critical moment when the stakes are high and the outcome uncertain. Regardless of the methods we use to motivate ourselves, we have to create our own goals and standards and then keep raising them. 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. 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.

In pratica tutto si riconduce alla necessità, nella vita come negli scacchi, di avere una precisa strategia e di perseguirla con tenacia e determinazione . 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. Richard Feynman, the Nobel laureate physicist believed that playing bongos made him a better physicist. He wants to show you how the skills you pick up from top-level chess can translate into understanding of life in general, and his opening case study, organised around his first World Championship match against Karpov, is inspiring.The first law of thermodynamics tells us that the total amount of energy in a system is constant, that if we move energy into one area, we lose an equal amount from another.

Aunque el principio está bien traído, con el ejemplo del match contra Karpov, luego pierde fuelle y se convierte casi en una manual de autoayuda para la vida, la política y los negocios. Se non si è in grado di elaborare un piano di utilità si può guardare la televisione, giocare o perdere tempo. Kasparov had every reason to be proud of his achievement, which was as much about overcoming himself as about overcoming his adversary. It would really have helped of he would give the moves of the game under discussion, or at the very least show the position in question. As Marcel Duchamp said: 'I have come to the conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.The sacrifice was not altogher obvious, and there was a large number of possible variations, but when I conscientiously began to work through them, I found, to my horror, that nothing would come of it. This can also be seen as a cursory glance on the world of chess players, their schools, their styles, and their flawed personnalities and their drives too. L'intenzione di Kasparov in questo libro è quella di mostrare come strategia e tattica davanti alla scacchiera possano essere trasposte alla vita reale. So I was shocked to find myself thoroughly engrossed by Kasparov's book, which is essentially an anatomy and vivisection of his personal genius, and rules he has generalized from that. Former world chess champion Kasparov issues a friendly book not so much about chess but rather about some personal insights from his career applying to whatever lies beyond the 64 squares.