There is an outrageous stretch - 'We could even make the case that [François Philidor's] memorable phrase "the pawns are the soul of the game" eerily anticipated the French Revolution. 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. Like the weatherman’s forecasts, the further ahead you look, the more likely it is you will miscalculate. It's perhaps not convenient to interrupt at such a culminating moment, but I would, nevertheless, like to know whether extraneous thoughts ever enter your head during a game? His failure, so far, to have pulled this one off has left him spare time, some of which he uses to lecture chief executives about the antics of other CEOs.

Kasparov went into the match underestimating his great opponent and not understanding what made him so good.

Kings of New York, therefore, is not only about under-privileged outsiders besting those bound for Princeton.

stato anche il maggiore avversario politico di Vladimir Putin, venendo per questo arrestato più e più volte dalla polizia russa.

Hence, if our pieces work together, they can easily transform one advantage into another without losing quality. For instance, I will never forget my game with Grandmaster Vasyukov in one of the USSR Championships.

The sacrifice was not altogher obvious, and there was a large number of possible variations, but when I conscientiously began to work through them, I found, to my horror, that nothing would come of it. In short, Kasporav does not give any amazing insights in this book that we haven't heard before from the motivational book section in terms of life lessons. Anticipation of something’s happening can be more powerful than the event itself or, put another way, is inseparable from the event itself. It's a remarkably honest audiobook in which Kasparov—one of the world's most celebrated and successful competitors—details both his blunders and his victories, always with the intent to enable readers to absorb his lessons and do better for themselves.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.

He's forced to concede that the raw aggression which made him the best chessplayer in the world for 20 years isn't as good in business or politics, where he's failed to impress. It’s a bad habit to become over reliant on one skill or way to doing things just because it has in the past worked well for you. is the question that separates the functionaries from visionaries, mere tacticians from strategists. In other words Kasporav merely talked about a chess principle, talked about how it applied to his own chess game, then pulled some random example from history that seem to relate to the chess principle he was talking about. el factor tiránico, porque es el tiempo invertido en el aprendizaje de patrones, de recurrencias, de secretos, el que fija las lecciones aprendidas y las hace útiles.I have never in my life read a self-help book, and have found all those I've looked at to be utterly trite garbage.