![]() ![]() Even so, he is unusually forthright in his views: Russian stability, he has said, is based upon ‘high oil prices and censorship’. ![]() His unique form of celebrity - he is best described as a combination of Russian intellectual and international rock star - protects him, of course. For in recent months, Kasparov has emerged as one of the few prominent Russians willing to criticise the Russian president openly, loudly and inside the country. Nevertheless, the book will disappoint anyone who picks it up, as I did, hoping to learn not how to succeed in the corporate rat race, but about Kasparov’s views on contemporary Russia. He speaks of the dangers of complacency, of the need to ‘programme’ oneself to achieve maximum efficiency, of the possibility of improving one’s intuitive thought processes - and so on. He notes that it was aĬurious experience when I first tried to think seriously about what exactly goes through my mind when I look at a chess position … I can only compare it to trying to understand what happens in your brain as you read this book,Īnd discourses on the importance of understanding the workings of one’s own thoughts. In the course of the book, for example, Kasparov re-examines his ‘development as a decision-maker’. ![]() Or perhaps it is more accurate to say that this book represents Kasparov’s bid to convince business executives that there is much to be learned from Kasparov’s game of chess. If I were a leading venture capitalist, the CEO of a large company, or in any case a person in search of ways to win friends and influence people, then I would be in a much better position to judge the utility of How Life Imitates Chess, Garry Kasparov’s bid to convince business executives that there is much to be learned from studying the game of chess. ![]()
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