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One of the most respectable strategists in our time teaches us how the tools that made him a world chess champion can make us more lucrative running a business and in life.Garry Kasparov was the highest-rated chess player on earth for over two decades which is widely considered the greatest player that ever lived. In How Life Imitates Chess Kasparov distills the lessons he learned over an eternity as a Grandmaster to provide 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 basics, from the nuts and bolts of strategy, evaluation, and preparation to the subtler, more human arts of creating 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), boosting the lessons of his many encounters with examples from politics, literature, sports and military history. 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 lease of life as a political leader in Russia. An inspiring book that combines unique strategic insight with personal memoir, How Life Imitates Chess is a glimpse inside the mind of 1 of today's greatest & most innovative thinkers.
