How life imitates chess

'In this book, chess is a teacher, and I aim to show it is a great one.' Garry Kasparov. World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov shares the powerful secrets of strategy he has learned from dominating the world's most intellectually challenging game u lessons about mastering the strategic and emotional skills to navigate life's toughest challenges and maximize success no matter how tough the competition. Drawing on a wealth of revealing and instructive stories, not only from 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 u in life as in chess - the edge: * How to think many steps ahead of the competition * When to be bold in asserting power and when to hold back and take advantage of the indispensable value of 'going second' * How to turn an opponent's strengths into weaknesses and your own weaknesses into strengths; learning how to turn a loss into a future win * Capitalizing on an awareness that every competition and transaction is a story with a beginning, middle and end; developing the techniques of emotional fitness to contend with pressure. With a raconteur's engaging charm, the greatest chess strategist ever 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 u a player whose record is likely never to be rivaled u 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.