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Garry Kasparov grew up in Baku, Azerbaijan (USSR) and became the youngest ever world chess champion in 1985 at the age of 22. He held that title until 2000. He retired from professional chess in March 2005 to found the United Civil Front in Russia, and has dedicated himself to establishing free and fair elections in his homeland. A longtime contributing editor at The Wall Street Journal, Kasparov travels around the world to address corporations and business audiences on strategy and leadership, and he appears frequently in the international media to talk about both chess and politics. When not traveling he divides his time between Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Preface | p. ix |
Opening Gambit | p. 1 |
The secret of success | p. 1 |
Why chess? | p. 3 |
A map of the mind | p. 5 |
Better decision-making cannot be taught, but it can be self-taught | p. 7 |
The Lesson | p. 11 |
Personal lessons from the world champion | p. 11 |
Becoming aware of the process | p. 14 |
Strategy | p. 16 |
Success at any speed | p. 16 |
"Why?" turns tacticians into strategists | p. 18 |
An ever-expanding example | p. 21 |
Play your own game | p. 23 |
You cannot always determine the battlefield | p. 26 |
A frequently changed strategy is the same as no strategy | p. 28 |
Don't watch the competition more than you watch yourself | p. 31 |
Once you have a strategy, employing it is a matter of desire | p. 33 |
Strategy and Tactics at Work | p. 36 |
Element of surprise | p. 38 |
A genius for development | p. 39 |
Sticking with a plan | p. 41 |
Confidence and the time factor | p. 43 |
Never give in-never, never, never | p. 45 |
Calculation | p. 48 |
Calculation must be focused and disciplined | p. 50 |
Imagination, calculation, and my greatest game | p. 51 |
Talent | p. 54 |
Recognizing the patterns in our lives | p. 56 |
The power of fantasy | p. 60 |
Fantasy can cut through fog | p. 60 |
Developing the habit of imagination | p. 62 |
Be aware of your routines, then break them | p. 64 |
Preparation | p. 66 |
Results are what matter | p. 67 |
Inspiration vs. perspiration | p. 69 |
Preparation pays off in many ways | p. 70 |
Turning a game into a science | p. 72 |
Targeting ourselves for efficiency | p. 74 |
MTQ: Material, Time, Quality | p. 79 |
Evaluation trumps calculation | p. 79 |
Material, the fundamental element | p. 80 |
Time is money | p. 83 |
When time matters most | p. 84 |
The third factor: quality | p. 87 |
What makes a bad bishop bad? | p. 88 |
Putting the elements into action | p. 89 |
Double-edged evaluation | p. 90 |
Personal return on investment | p. 92 |
MTQ on the home front | p. 94 |
Exchanges and Imbalances | p. 97 |
Freezing the game | p. 97 |
The search for compensation | p. 100 |
The laws of thermodynamics, chess, and quality of life | p. 101 |
Strategy on the browser battlefield | p. 102 |
All change comes at a cost | p. 104 |
Overextending our reach | p. 105 |
Phases of the Game | p. 108 |
Know why we make each move we make | p. 109 |
Art is born from creative conflict | p. 112 |
Make sure a good peace follows a good war | p. 114 |
Eliminating phase bias | p. 117 |
Don't bring a knife to a gunfight | p. 118 |
The Attacker's Advantage | p. 120 |
Flexing your intuition leads to strong decision-making | p. 120 |
The aggression double standard | p. 122 |
The initiative rarely rings twice | p. 123 |
An attacker by choice | p. 126 |
The transition from imitator to innovator | p. 129 |
The will to attack | p. 130 |
Question Success | p. 133 |
Success is the enemy of future success | p. 133 |
The gravity of past success | p. 134 |
Competition and anticomplacency tactics | p. 136 |
In favor of contradiction | p. 141 |
The difference between better and different | p. 143 |
The Inner Game | p. 144 |
The game can be won before you get to the board | p. 144 |
The storm before the calm | p. 145 |
Don't get distracted while trying to distract | p. 147 |
Breaking the spell of pressure | p. 148 |
Staying objective when the chips are down | p. 150 |
Pretenders to the crown and fatal flaws | p. 151 |
Man vs. Machine | p. 155 |
Enter the machines | p. 155 |
And a child shall lead us | p. 158 |
Kasparov vs. Deep Blue | p. 160 |
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em | p. 164 |
Staying out of the comfort zone | p. 167 |
Intuition | p. 171 |
We know more than we understand | p. 171 |
Intuition vs. analysis | p. 173 |
How long is long enough? | p. 176 |
The perils of ignoring a trend | p. 178 |
Crisis Point | p. 181 |
One single moment | p. 181 |
Detecting a crisis before it's a crisis | p. 184 |
Learning from a crisis | p. 185 |
A final chess story: the crisis in Seville | p. 186 |
Must-win strategy | p. 187 |
Errors on both sides | p. 189 |
Keeping a grip on the title | p. 192 |
Endgame | p. 194 |
The fight in Russia today | p. 194 |
Your life is your preparation | p. 196 |
No more secrets | p. 197 |
Epilogue | p. 199 |
A strategy for democracy | p. 199 |
Glossary | p. 205 |
Acknowledgments | p. 211 |
Index | p. 213 |
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