Ideas on strategy, tactics, decision making, creativity - all this very well explained in two parallels - real life and chess board (I prefer chess version more:). But without the knowledge and experience of life and specific details and data about Kasporav trying new things in life, this book has no gold nuggets for you to find. In essence, Kasporav's book would have been a million times better if he used a case study analysis - talking about a principle in chess, applying it to life, and talking about the results.

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.Aunque consigue hacer una buen comparación entre el ajedrez y la vida, algunos puntos no son del todo acertados. Ci vuole una grande forza interiore per fronteggiare i fallimenti, per accettare il fatto che dobbiamo effettuare dei cambiamenti e ancor più per metterli in pratica. Come giocatore di scacchi ho apprezzato gli aneddoti relativi al nobil giuoco, il resto è poco interessante e non dice nulla di nuovo; ho faticato non poco per portare a termine la lettura. If you daydream a little about what you’d like to see happen, sometimes you find that it is really possible. 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.

Non sono state sufficienti ad esempio a Kasparov per vincere il suo grande avversario politico, che non rispetta alcuna regola ed è spietato e potentissimo. When the match was declared null and void after 48 games (the only time this has happened in World Chess Championship history), the score was 5-3, and Kasparov had the momentum. 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). 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). 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.

An exquisite chess game annotated and laid down for all time is the closest thing in sport to a musical score.

El ajedrez puede ser una fuente de sabiduría, de enseñanzas aplicables a otras esferas de la existencia, y eso es lo que Kasparov, con variable entusiasmo, se propone demostrar.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.