Thanks for such great quotes from the legend that so beautifully represent teachings one can take from chess and implement them in one’s life for significant improvement in it at both the personal and professional levels. 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. No matter how great his chess skills, he lacked the people skills to be a self-promoter and fund-raiser.

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. 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. We must play the opening phase like a book, the middlegame like a magician and the endgame like a machine.There is the pointless acronym, MTQ (Material, Time, Quality), which sets up the baffling sub-chapter: 'MTQ on the home front'. This is much like my chess skills, I've studied tactics but still sometimes calculate wrongly, also position players always get the better of me and trip me up. Una volta diventato "vecchio" verso i quarant'anni (sì, come i matematici, anche gli scacchisti perdono buona parte delle loro capacità creative dopo i 35 anni.

g. expansionism on the chessboard is compared to German expansionism in WW2 and the failure of Pan Am airlines.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. It wasn't until he found himself 4-0 down that he realised his straightforward attacking strategy wasn't appropriate.

If critics and competitors can’t match your results, they will often denigrate the way you achieve them. Chess, along with music and mathematics, is one of the few pursuits in which superior ability and originality can manifest at a young age. I would transport a subtle reply by my opponent, which worked in one case, to another situation where it would naturally prove to be quite useless.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.