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How Life Imitates Chess by Garry Kasparov

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I’ve been slowly working my way through Garry Kasparov’s excellent How Life Imitates Chess. I had rather low expectations, since in my experience superstars in a very narrow activity g…

I've been slowly working my way through Garry Kasparov's excellent How Life Imitates Chess . I had rather low expectations, since in my experience superstars in a very narrow activity generally do not have the breadth of perspective to adequately situate what they know in broader ways. Discuss with vgr_zirp → But Kasparov's book is excellent, a pleasant surprise. It is heavily focused on competitive decision-making of course, but he manages to abstract out lessons from chess encounters very well, so you can read the book even if you aren't a player. It is helpful to know the basic rules of che

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