How Life Imitates Chess - Couverture rigide

Kasparov, Gary

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0434014109 ISBN 13 : 9780434014101

Editeur : William Heinemann, 2007

Synopsis

'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.

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À propos 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.

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'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 Kasparov shares the powerful secrets of strategy he has learned from dominating the world's most intellectually challenging game - lessons about mastering the strategic and emotional skills to navigate life's toughest challenges and maximize success no matter how tough the competition. Mental tools designed to give the decisive edge.

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 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:

-how to think many steps ahead of the competition

-when to be bold in asserting power and when to hold back and take advantage of the indispensable value of 'going second'

-how to turn an opponent's strengths into weaknesses and your own weaknesses into strengths; learning how to turn a loss into a future win

-capitalizing on an awareness that every competition and transaction is a story with a beginning, middle and end; developing the techniques of emotional fitness to contend with pressure.

With a raconteur's engaging charm, the greatest player ever, of the world's oldest and most popular game, 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 rivaled - 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: William Heinemann
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0434014109
• ISBN 13: 9780434014101
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible