How Life Imitates Chess

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1. wslhMar 2023
   I start with five:

   1. "Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company" by Andrew Grove. It is a real CEO experiencing critical moments in a top company.

   2. "How Life Imitates Chess" by Garry Kasparov (don't pay attention to the title...). Kasparov talks about different players with different styles and in different moments.

   3. "New Directions in the Philosophy of Mathematics" edited by Thomas Tymoczko. Embed epistemological questions that at a higher level could be applied to business. In a way (2) is epistemological regarding chess and it ends when Deep Blue beats Kasparov and Kasparov start thinking in a new kind of chess called advanced chess (even if it was not successful).

   4. Fred Wilson's blog, including MBA Mondays. Answers many questions from the perspective of a VC who can watch multiple companies execution at the same time and tell many humble stories.

   5. "Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft" by Paul Allen. It shows you the deep story before Microsoft, seems like a unique technological and advanced experience at that time by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Spoiler: the lucky IBM/DOS event is not why Microsoft is successful, the book gives you some deep roots before the company foundation.

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2. przeorMar 2022
   How Life Imitates Chess Book by Garry Kasparov

   This book explained me concepts of - material - time - and quality

   in chess and business life.

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3. usgroupMar 2022
   Kasparov had a nice line about this in "How life imitates chess". I'm paraphrasing but it was something along the lines of "there are lots of things that cannot be tought to you which you can nontheless teach yourself".

   I think that thinking processes is very much in that category, and I think that the investment in time is considerable. I think its typical to expect gradual improvement -- a constant response to training. Anecdotally, it doesn't work like that.

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4. przeorJul 2016
   1) "how life imitates chess" Garry Kasparov

   2) "how life imitates chess" Garry Kasparov

   3) "how life imitates chess" Garry Kasparov

   Highly recommended, very good read and smart book. I would call it the modern version of The Art of War.

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5. ardemchenkovSep 2015
   Sure, thank you for this notice. There's one interesting scientific research about it, which I read before http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00.... As you can see there's no simple yes or no.

   But another very good example is a book of Garry Kasparov "How life imitates chess", where he explains how it can be transparently connected with each other.

   In my opinion chess can be used as a model of real life and if someone wants to learn something useful from it, he can get it.

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6. wslhFeb 2014
   I also think that in the adult life you search positive feedback in other critical things like life standard. When you are young it is enough to receive positive and easy feedback in your family or school. I recommend to read the Kasparov's book: how life imitates chess (not the best title) where he mention different chess player personalities and ages.

   But we can't forget that there are huge brain changes when you are young.

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