How Life Imitates Chess

`In this book, chess is a teacher, and I aim to show it is a great one` - Garry Kasparov. Here, Grandmaster and World Chess Champion Garry 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 maximise success no matter how tough the competition. `Unfortunately, the number of ways to do something wrong always exceeds the number of ways to do it right.`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 his wide-ranging and perceptive reading, Kasparov reveals the strategic ways of thinking that always give a player - in life as in chess - the edge. We learn about the great figures of the game, and how their contests have shaped chess history; from Capablanca and Alekhine to Bobby Fischer and Kasparov`s nemesis, Vladimir Kramnik.`It`s much better to be a little over-confident than the opposite As Churchill wrote, `Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.` If we trust in our abilities they will repay us.` With a raconteur`s engaging charm, Garry Kasparov 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, Kasparov - a player whose record is likely never to be rivalled - 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. `I used to attack because it was the only thing I knew. Not I attack because I know it works best.`