How Life Imitates Chess - Couverture rigide

Kasparov, Gary

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0434014109 ISBN 13 : 9780434014101

Editeur : William Heinemann, 2007

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

'In this book, chess is a teacher, and I aim to show it is a great one.' Garry Kasparov

World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov shares the powerful secrets of strategy he has learned from dominating the world's most intellectually challenging game for two decades - lessons about mastering the strategic and emotional skills to navigate life's toughest challenges and maximise success no matter how tough the competition.

Drawing on a wealth of revealing and instructive stories, not only from his finest games, but also from a wide-ranging and perceptive knowledge of current affairs, 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 Kasparov's own nemesis, Vladimir Kramnik.

With a raconteur's engaging charm, a great chess strategist 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, Garry 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.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Born in Azerbaijan in 1963, Garry Kasparov became world chess champion at the age of twenty-two. He was world number one until his retirement from competitive chess in 2005; no previous champion has retained the No 1 position for anything like as long. He lives in Moscow.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: William Heinemann
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0434014109
• ISBN 13: 9780434014101
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288