Bloomsbury USA
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GARRY KASPAROV discusses How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom
In How Life Imitates Chess Kasparov distills the lessons he learned over a lifetime as a Grandmaster to offer a primer on successful decision-making, combining strategic insight with personal memoir. Kasparov relates all the fundamentals, from the nuts and bolts of strategy, evaluation, and preparation to the subtler, more human arts of developing a personal style and using memory, intuition, imagination and even fantasy. Kasparov also takes us through the great matches of his career. With candor and humor, Kasparov recounts his victories and his blunders, both from his years as a world-class competitor as well as his from new life as a political player in Russia. "The former world chess champion entered Russia's presidential race on Sunday, [September 30, 2007] elected overwhelmingly as the candidate for the country's beleaguered opposition coalition. Kasparov has been a driving force behind the coalition, which has united liberals, leftists and nationalists in opposition to President Vladimir Putin. He received 379 of 498 votes at a national congress held in Moscow by the Other Russia coalition, coalition spokeswoman Lyudmila Mamina told The Associated Press. Kasparov's place on the March ballot was not assured. His candidacy still needs to be registered and is likely to be blocked.... 'The goal of the Other Russia is not winning elections, but to have an election,' Kasparov told AP Television News, speaking in English on the sidelines of the congress. 'We're trying to force the regime to accept our rights to participate in free and fair elections, to agitate the Russian population and Russian public to support our ideas.' Kasparov argues that Putin's extraordinary public support hinges on the Kremlin's full control over the electoral process and national television." The New York Times, 9/30/07
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Monday, October 15th |
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7:00 PM |
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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.
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