How Life Imitates Chess

The greatest chess player in history teaches us to see life as a game of strategy.

Life is like a game of chess, and in this book, Garry Kasparov, a master of the board, explains how solutions to everyday problems require the same arts and techniques (knowledge, preparation, strategy, variant calculation, etc.) as the game of 64 squares.

In chess, as in reality, it is necessary to analyze, discard, organize thought, understand the actions that may occur, have prepared solutions, know how to conclude and study all possible variants, be able to make a virtue of necessity, and understand the opponent's faculties to turn them to one's own advantage.

To do this, it is essential to have strong self-discipline, intuition, and logic that facilitate our approach to common problems. Just as in daily life, knowledge of the situation helps us to live and face challenges with the hope of success.

Written with common sense and the deep strategic intelligence developed throughout his long and brilliant career, this book shows how to advance step by step towards the final goal; also how to turn a defeat into a future victory, how to turn around a difficult situation, and how to prepare for great challenges, always drawing from real situations of Kasparov's vast experience and extracting the most pertinent lessons.