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Manufacturer: Bloomsbury USA
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 658
EAN: 9781596913882
ISBN: 1596913886
Label: Bloomsbury USA
Manufacturer: Bloomsbury USA
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: 2008-09-30
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Release Date: 2008-09-30
Studio: Bloomsbury USA
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“One of the most formidable brains of our era….fast-talking, exuberant, indigant one moment and laughing sardonically the next – Kasparov clearly relishes the fight.”—Washington Post 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.
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Summary: Inspiring advice on how to succeed in life
Comment: For those of us who grew up playing chess in the 1980s, Kasparov was a superhero. Hence I couldn't resist buying this book. I found it very inspiring and thoughtful. It has many insights taken from Kasparov's own personal life and chess games, about what it takes to succeed. I learned a lot and am revising the way I think and make decisions.
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Summary: Insightful
Comment: Part motivational pep talk, part memoir, and part chess instruction, How Life Imitates Chess shares insights accumulated through a lifetime on professional chess's world stage by the most accomplished player the game has ever known. Self-awareness is the main message, and Kasparov has a gift for making the steps to achieving it plain, if not easy. His points are well-illustrated by anecdotes from his chess and political careers as well as historic examples from the worlds of business, politics, sports, art, science, and warfare.
Being a chess nerd is not a prerequisite, though it helps, and if your goal is to become a chess nerd, this isn't a bad place to start.
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Summary: Inspiring
Comment: you can see how someone climb the life mountain,and still there is enough to go,how we can learn from the past and correct the way during the life,to not be dogmatist.
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Summary: Un libro profundo más allá del tablero de ajedrez...
Comment: Garry kasparov ha escrito un libro profundo en el que intenta establecer analogías entre el ajedrez y la vida cotidiana. Para los lectores que no están familiarizados con el juego del ajedrez este no es ningún problema, ya que no analiza partidas o posiciones en el tablero. Más bien, explica sus experiencias que vivió como niño, joven y adulto en las preparaciones y competiciones en el deporte-ciencia denominado ajedrez. Al mismo tiempo brinda interesantes anécdotas ajedrecísticas-personales de los mejores jugadores de ajedrez en la historia como Botvinik, Capablanca, Bobby Fisher, Tarrash, Lasker, solo por mencionar algunos. Las anécdotas son muy enriquecedoras en el libro y logra encajarlas en el momento preciso de la "novela" para ejemplificar alguna cualidad humana o situación a superar en la vida cotidiana.
El libro menciona momentos históricos como la primera y segunda guerra mundial, y las lecciones económicas, políticas y sociales que se aprendieron de estos desafortunados eventos. Dado que el escritor es Ruso, no podría faltar mencionar algunos hechos históricos que cambiaron a la Unión Soviética. Al respecto, Garry Kasparov se ha inmerso en la política de su país que vive tiempos de transformación con la era de Putin y con el actual presidente Dimitri Medvédev. Kasparov se declara un perseguidor de la democracia para la transformación de Rusia hacia un país democrático y plural, y hace claro que esta es su "segunda vida" después de retirarse de los torneos internacionales.
Hay muchas cosas que aprender para la vida cotidiana de este libro. Quizá el único reproche que tendría sería en el título del libro: "Cómo la vida imita al ajedrez". Al principio pensé que era una mala traducción del título original. Sin embargo, después de consultar el título original publicado en Londres "How life imitates chess", no me quedo sino aceptar que así era. No sé cómo Kasparov defina la vida. Yo quiero pensar que se refiere al lapso de tiempo que tenemos los humanos en la Tierra y las actividades en las que nos vemos envueltos. Es difícil que "la vida" imite a un deporte, arte o ciencia. La comparación o analogía en ese orden parece no ser precisa. "La vida" parece ser algo que fluye con nosotros y sin nosotros, y es independiente de nuestras aficiones. Por eso, considero que un titulo más preciso que el actual sería "Cómo el ajedrez imita a la vida", o "How Chess Imitates Life".
Quizá solo fue un título sugerido por el editor para llamar más la atención. No lo sé.
De cualquier manera, estoy seguro que muchas personas disfrutaran de la lectura de este libro. Quizás vean reflejadas algunas etapas o hechos en sus propias vidas, o quizá sirva para aplicar conceptos como motivación, tenacidad, estrategia, y valores en la vida cotidiana.
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Summary: College textbook material
Comment: I believe this would make an excellent college textbook, so if you are a college student, or new to the corporate world, then I highly recommend this book -- particularly if you are in sales or marketing.
If, however, you have been in sales or marketing for a number of years, then you will find the messages in this book to be repetitive of what we learned in the 80s and 90s.
This is actually not a criticism of the work for the advice is solid and true to the real world. It's simply repetitious of what's already been said by others. I was expecting something more enlightening.
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