How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves - From the Board to the Boardroom
Written by Garry Kasparov
Narrated by Adam Grupper
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About this audiobook
One of the world's most highly regarded strategists uses his mastery of the world's most ancient and subtle game to show readers how chess's tools can make them more successful in business and in life.
How Life Imitates Chess is a primer on how to think, make decisions, prepare strategies and anticipate the future. Kasparov has distilled the lessons he learned over a lifetime as a Chess grandmaster to cover the practical side—tactics, strategy, preparation—as well as the subtler, more human arts of using memory, intuition, and imagination. It's a remarkably honest audiobook in which Kasparov—one of the world's most celebrated and successful competitors—details both his blunders and his victories, always with the intent to enable readers to absorb his lessons and do better for themselves.
Garry Kasparov
Garry Kasparov grew up in Baku, Azerbaijan (USSR) and became the youngest ever world chess champion in 1985 at the age of 22. He held that title until 2000. He retired from professional chess in March 2005 to found the United Civil Front in Russia, and has dedicated himself to establishing free and fair elections in his homeland. A longtime contributing editor at The Wall Street Journal, Kasparov travels around the world to address corporations and business audiences on strategy and leadership, and he appears frequently in the international media to talk about both chess and politics. When not traveling he divides his time between Moscow and St. Petersburg.
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Reviews for How Life Imitates Chess
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I love the book. There are great stories and principles to learn from
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Brilliant insight about chess principles applied in real life situations . Thank you Grandmaster Kasparov and keep up the great work !
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Really enjoyed this book and the analogies between life and Kasparov's games victories and defeats
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5At the beginning I disagreed with the public library listing this book under Biographies but art the end they might be right.This biography is full of anecdotes and the view Kasparov has on several topics related to success. Simple reading. Interesting quotes from chess champions and celebrities. You can enjoy this book even if you are not into chess at all.