How Life Imitates Chess

In this book chess is a teacher and I aim to show it is a great one. Garry Kasparov. Here Grandmaster and World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov shares the powerful secrets of strategy he has learned from dominating the worlds most intellectually challenging game - lessons about mastering the strategic and emotional skills to navigate lifes toughest challenges and maximise success no matter how tough the competition. . Unfortunately the number of ways to do something wrong always exceeds the number of ways to do it right.. Drawing on a wealth of revealing and instructive stories not only from the most intense and decisive moments of his greatest games but also from his wide-ranging and perceptive reading Kasparov reveals the strategic ways of thinking that always give a player - in life as in chess - the edge. We learn about the great figures of the game and how their contests have shaped chess history; from Capablanca and Alekhine to Bobby Fischer and Kasparovs nemesis Vladimir Kramnik. . Its much better to be a little over-confident than the opposite. As Churchill wrote Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. If we trust in our abilities they will repay us.. With a raconteurs engaging charm Garry Kasparov takes us inside a brilliant strategic mind. As Sun-Tzu distilled the secrets of the art of war and Machiavelli unveiled the lessons to be learned from courtly intrigue Kasparov - a player whose record is likely never to be rivalled - reveals how and why the game of chess is a fitting and powerful teacher of how to be prepared for and how to win in even the most competitive situations.. I used to attack because it was the only thing I knew. Not I attack because I know it works best.