I like the way Kasparov touches on areas such as business innovations, the lovely quotations, grandmasters assessment of other grandmasters. It might also be useful for someone interested in chess too, but that was not Kasporav's target audience. And, my favourite, plenty of bonkers juxtapositions: 'Anticipating Nike's ad agency by two centuries, Goethe wrote, "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Here, he's sacrificed quality and time in the interests of picking up some material profits - I suppose this book reached a wider public than the very technical Great Predecessors, and hopefully it made him a few dollars. 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.

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. It wasn't until he found himself 4-0 down that he realised his straightforward attacking strategy wasn't appropriate. De todas formas, lo recomiendo a cualquier fan del ajedrez, incluso a personas que quieran ver algunas citas interesantes de cómo seguir adelante con tu vida, comparadas al mismo tiempo con partidos de ajedrez o la vida de ajedrecistas históricos. It was Fischer who would resurface in Milosevic's Yugoslavia in the early Nineties to play a sanctions-breaking match, which means he is barred from entering America. Richard Feynman, the Nobel laureate physicist believed that playing bongos made him a better physicist.Apenas un año después de que se publicara este libro, con todo su optimismo, su autor fue obligado mediante trucos viles a abandonar su campaña presidencial. Puede ser que, como nuestros padres, Kasparov nos enseñe más precisamente cuando no está preocupado por enseñarnos nada. 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. In other words Kasporav merely talked about a chess principle, talked about how it applied to his own chess game, then pulled some random example from history that seem to relate to the chess principle he was talking about. The last chapter of the book seems particularly poignant at the moment, in which he details his move into politics as a pro-democracy activist and direct opponent of Putin.

A good deal is said on dealing with crisis and growth, on stepping out of your comfort zone, on how rivals help you grasp your own purpose, acknowledging failure as the case may be, and use it as a springboard to change gears and reinvent yourself. is the question that separates the functionaries from visionaries, mere tacticians from strategists.Long-term success is impossible if you let your heat-of-the-moment reactions trump careful planning. The book tries to map chess to life and shows how a particular attitude or trait in chess may help to solve a real life problem. Non sono state sufficienti ad esempio a Kasparov per vincere il suo grande avversario politico, che non rispetta alcuna regola ed è spietato e potentissimo.