One of the most highly regarded strategists of our time teaches us how the tools that made him a world chess champion can make us more successful in business and in life.

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. In How Life Imitates Chess Kasparov distills the lessons he learned over a lifetime as a Grandmaster to offer a primer on successful decision-making:  how to evaluate opportunities, anticipate the future, devise winning strategies. He relates in a lively, original way all the fundamentals, from the nuts and bolts of strategy, evaluation, and preparation to the subtler, more human arts of developing a personal style and using memory, intuition, imagination and even fantasy. Kasparov takes us through the great matches of his career, including legendary duels against both man (Grandmaster Anatoly Karpov) and machine (IBM chess supercomputer Deep Blue), enhancing the lessons of his many experiences with examples from politics, literature, sports and military history.

With candor, wisdom, and humor, Kasparov recounts his victories and his blunders, both from his years as a world-class competitor as well as his new life as a political leader in Russia. An inspiring book that combines unique strategic insight with personal memoir, How Life Imitates Chess is a glimpse inside the mind of one of today’s greatest and most innovative thinkers.

加里·卡斯帕罗夫，著名国际象棋大师、棋坛的传奇人物。他在21岁时就成为了历史上最年轻的国际象棋世界冠军，此后多次卫冕成功。他排名世界第一的时间长达二十多年，是国际象棋界当之无愧的第一人。1996年，他与IBM研制的电脑“深蓝”展开了一场令世界瞩目的人机大战。2005年，他宣布退役，后投身政坛。在2007年，他被《时代》杂志评为当今世界100位最具影响力的人物之一。他现在居住在莫斯科。