Author(s): Garry Kasparov

Biographies & Memoirs

The most successful chess player of our time - indeed of all time - shares his insights into life as a game of strategy, drawing on his own story as well as the worlds of business and politics.

'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 for two decades ? lessons about mastering the strategic and emotional skills to navigate life?s toughest challenges and maximise success no matter how tough the competition. Drawing on a wealth of revealing and instructive stories, not only from his finest 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, a great chess strategist 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 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.