How Life Imitates Chess

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If Kasporav doesn't care about science, he could have at least used the insights he pulled from chess, applied them to one sepcific example in his life, and then told us what the specific results were (with data). Most of these lessons are based on interesting anecdotes, stories about his own life in chess, or about other chess players.

Opening move (with due apologies to the great mind): The title should have been the other way round, how chess imitates life, for chess is a part of life. So I was shocked to find myself thoroughly engrossed by Kasparov's book, which is essentially an anatomy and vivisection of his personal genius, and rules he has generalized from that. One of the most highly regarded strategists of our time teaches us how the tools that made him a world chess champion can make us more successful in business and in life.Regardless of the methods we use to motivate ourselves, we have to create our own goals and standards and then keep raising them.

En alguna medida, supongo que lo logra, pero me parece dudoso que su sapiencia ajedrecística pueda ser de utilidad para otras personas – o siquiera para sí mismo en sus otras actividades.

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. Richard Feynman, the Nobel laureate physicist believed that playing bongos made him a better physicist. 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.