How Life Imitates Chess

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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.

If you want to read some great chess stories disguised as a how-to guide for career management, this is the book for you. Being an avid chess player, I still loved the book and learned more about chess principles than life. Sin embargo, debo decir que tenemos en este ejemplar una prosa agradable, con ritmo ágil; un libro erudito, con conocimiento histórico puntual (quizá cargado hacia los conflictos bélicos); y con intersantes acercamientos a las ciencias cognoscitivas.

Like the weatherman’s forecasts, the further ahead you look, the more likely it is you will miscalculate.

Il libro ha sicuramente un contenuto autobiografico, ma è anche una parziale storia degli scacchi e un manuale per il miglioramento dell'efficienza personale e di motivazione manageriale. The final chapter detailing the final fight of Kasparov with his famous opponent, Karpov, is interesting. 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. 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.

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). That's me I've fiinished this post, which is like chess it has an endgame - like life which has death, but then there are more games, just like reincarnation, which is like chess.

The last chapter of the book seems particularly poignant at the moment, in which he details his move into politics as a pro-democracy activist and direct opponent of Putin.As Marcel Duchamp said: 'I have come to the conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists. 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. In pratica tutto si riconduce alla necessità, nella vita come negli scacchi, di avere una precisa strategia e di perseguirla con tenacia e determinazione . If we could know where we are going and where we are standing, we could better judge what to do and how to do it.

It would really have helped of he would give the moves of the game under discussion, or at the very least show the position in question.This is much like my chess skills, I've studied tactics but still sometimes calculate wrongly, also position players always get the better of me and trip me up.