How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the BoardroomBloomsbury Publishing USA, 10 ago 2010 - 240 pagine 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. In How Life Imitates Chess Kasparov distills the lessons he learned over a lifetime as a Grandmaster to offer 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 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. 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. 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. An inspiring book that combines unique strategic insight with personal memoir, How Life Imitates Chess is a glimpse inside the mind of one of today's greatest and most innovative thinkers. |
Sommario
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| 8 | |
| 16 | |
I | 24 |
Chapter 3Strategy and Tactics at Work | 36 |
Chapter 4Calculation | 48 |
Chapter 5Talent | 54 |
Chapter | 66 |
II | 128 |
Chapter 11Question Success | 133 |
Chapter 12The Inner Game | 144 |
Chapter 13Man vs Machine | 155 |
14 | 171 |
Chapter 15Crisis Point | 181 |
Endgame | 194 |
Glossary | 205 |
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How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom Garry Kasparov Anteprima limitata - 2008 |
How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom Garri Kimovich Kasparov,Mig Greengard Visualizzazione estratti - 2007 |
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