Quick Overview
Here Grandmaster and World Chess Champion Kasparov shares the powerful secrets of strategy he has learned from dominating the world’s most intellectually challenging game – lessons about mastering the strategic and emotional skills to navigate life’s toughest challenges and maximize success no matter how tough the competition. Mental tools designed to give the decisive edge. Drawing on a wealth of revealing and instructive stories, not only from the most intense and decisive moments of his greatest games, but also from a wide-ranging and perceptive knowledge of current affairs, Kasparov reveals the strategic ways of thinking that always give a player – in life as in chess - the edge. With a raconteur’s engaging charm, the greatest player ever, of the world’s oldest and most popular game, takes us inside a brilliant strategic mind. As Sun-tzu distilled the secrets of the art of war and Machiavelli unveiled the lessons to be learned from courtly intrigue, Garry Kasparov – a player whose record is likely never to be rivaled – reveals how and why the game of chess is a fitting and powerful teacher, of how to be prepared for, and how to win in, even the most competitive situations.
