Garry Kasparov – författare

One of the world''s most highly regarded strategists uses his mastery of the world''s most ancient and subtle game to show readers how chess''s tools can make them more successful in business and in life. How Life Imitates Chess is a primer on how to think, make decisions, prepare strategies and anticipate the future. Kasparov has distilled the lessons he learned over a lifetime as a Chess grandmaster to cover the practical side—tactics, strategy, preparation—as well as the subtler, more human arts of using memory, intuition, and imagination. It''s a remarkably honest audiobook in which Kasparov—one of the world''s most celebrated and successful competitors—details both his blunders and his victories, always with the intent to enable readers to absorb his lessons and do better for themselves.

In May 1997, the world watched as Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess player in the world, was defeated for the first time by the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue. It was a watershed moment in the history of technology: machine intelligence had arrived at the point where it could best human intellect.It wasn''t a coincidence that Kasparov became the symbol of man''s fight against the machines. Chess has long been the fulcrum in development of machine intelligence; the hoax automaton ''The Turk'' in the 18th century and Alan Turing''s first chess program in 1952 were two early examples of the quest for machines to think like humans -- a talent we measured by their ability to beat their creators at chess. As the pre-eminent chessmaster of the 80s and 90s, it was Kasparov''s blessing and his curse to play against each generation''s strongest computer champions, contributing to their development and advancing the field. Like all passionate competitors, Kasparov has taken his defeat and learned from it. He has devoted much energy to devising ways in which humans can partner with machines in order to produce results better than either can achieve alone. During the twenty years since playing Deep Blue, he''s played both with and against machines, learning a great deal about our vital relationship with our most remarkable creations. Ultimately, he''s become convinced that by embracing the competition between human and machine intelligence, we can spend less time worrying about being replaced and more thinking of new challenges to conquer.In this breakthrough book, Kasparov tells his side of the story of Deep Blue for the first time -- what it was like to strategize against an implacable, untiring opponent -- the mistakes he made and the reasons the odds were against him. But more than that, he tells his story of AI more generally, and how he''s evolved to embrace it, taking part in an urgent debate with philosophers worried about human values, programmers creating self-learning neural networks, and engineers of cutting edge robotics.

Brought to you by Penguin. THE STRATEGIES BEHIND A SUCCESSFUL LIFE FROM THE LEGENDARY GRANDMASTER AND ADVISOR TO NETFLIX''S THE QUEEN''S GAMBIT, NOW WITH A NEW FOREWORD''In this book, chess is a teacher, and I aim to show it is a great one.''For over twenty years, Garry Kasparov dominated the world of chess. As the youngest ever undisputed World Champion, known for confounding his opponents at every move and breaking record after record, Kasparov was asked the same question time and time again: what makes a champion?Drawing on a wealth of revealing and instructive stories, from the most intense moments of his greatest games to the world-changing decisions of history''s greatest strategists such as Winston Churchill and Steve Jobs, Kasparov reveals the strategic ways of thinking that always give a player - in the game of life as well as chess - the edge.PRAISE FOR GARRY KASPAROV''I''ve never seen someone with such a feel for dynamics in complex positions'' - Magnus Carlsen, World Chess Champion''There is nothing in chess he has been unable to deal with'' - Vladimir Kramnik, Chess Grandmaster''Mr. Kasparov is not only one of the world''s smartest men, he is also among its bravest.'' - Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch© Garry Kasparov 2007 (P) Penguin Audio 2021