How Life Imitates Chess

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Le letture si richiamano sempre tra loro; e infatti sono stato arrivato a questo libro leggendo la "Storia parziale delle cause perse", dove il personaggio descritto nel romanzo si ispira proprio a Kasparov. And even if they don't, it's not hard to include literally two pages showing the basics of how the pieces move and how algebraic notation works.

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. Also, he downplays nothing on the importance of style in a game of chess (positionnal vs combinatory play) and makes both worlds meet gently.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. Questioning yourself must become a habit, a strong habit that overcomes your overconfidence and dejection. 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. I believe that if opportunity isn’t provided at a young age, it can be created later in adulthood through discipline and imaginative involvement in the pursuits we care about. 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.

A chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second, when you belive you have the advantage, and the third, when you know you're going to loose! Regardless of the methods we use to motivate ourselves, we have to create our own goals and standards and then keep raising them. Well, the book is written by one of the greatest chess players and so you will naturally be filled with great expectations (with due apologies to the great novelist). Más allá de su capacidad técnica en ajedrez, su sorprendente habilidad comicativa como escritor y visión clara de negocios, Kasparov me maravilló y gratamente sorprendió con su valentía para defender las libertades políticas de su pueblo y oponer resistencia a los abusos del gobierno de Putin. Campione del mondo di scacchi all'età di 21 anni, titolo che ha detenuto poi per ben 15 anni, è stato definito come il più grande giocatore di scacchi di tutti i tempi.

in quei momenti che un vero stratega si distingue trovando il sistema per migliorare e rafforzare le proprie posizioni in vista dell’inevitabile conflitto. The "glossary" does include a bit of this (not the rules and notation, but it does show the board setup and the meaning of some basic terms). This book is no different, but the twist here is that Kasparov on many occasions has used his failures to explain that life is not as straightforward as the rules of chess. Dejando de lado los aspectos más ambiciosos, o más de autoayuda del libro de Kasparov, también tiene pasajes de genuino interés, que son aquellos que le dedica sin más al juego, a su historia, y a las rivalidades que inspiró.

There is the pointless acronym, MTQ (Material, Time, Quality), which sets up the baffling sub-chapter: 'MTQ on the home front'. Most of these lessons are based on interesting anecdotes, stories about his own life in chess, or about other chess players. Fantasy must be backed up by sober evaluation and calculation or you spend your life making beautiful blunders.It always positions itself well and I fall over it, because I calculated wrongly that I could get past. Being told the value is one thing, but only experience really teaches you what those values signify in the “real world” of chess. Seamos crueles: si la vida imitara realmente al ajedrez, Kasparov sería hoy el presidente de Rusia, y no Vladimir Putin. He draws specific lessons from the games, like how Tal relied in his intuition to sac a knight, or how Karpov retuned a material advantage for a positional advantage or how he made the wrong knight move under time pressure. How Life Imitates Chess is a primer on how to think, make decisions, prepare strategies and anticipate the future.