How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom Garry Kasparov - ISBN 1596913878200X - Audible Audiobooks 2007

Motivation

Recommended by metaphaze after 2 questions I asked regarding chess and the link to behavioral finance applied to studied games and the evolution of strategies over time.

Pre-reading model

Draw a schema (using PmGraphViz or another solution) of the situation of the area in the studied domain before having read the book.

Reading

• Opening Gambit

Part I

• Chapter 1 - The Lesson
• Chapter 2 - Strategy
  • aligning tactic with strategy
  • ~min32 "The virtue of innovation only rarely compensate for the vice of inadequacy"
• Chapter 3 - Strategy and Tactics at Work
• Chapter 4 - Calculation
  • very interesting points on the limits of "cold" computation
• Chapter 5 - Talent
  • very interesting points on creativity
    • and how "cold" calculation can help break the bad habits
• Chapter 6 - Preparation
  • priorities
  • healthy schedule
  • learning from
    • older games
    • own mistakes
    • own way of learning

Part II

• Chapter 7 - MTQ: Material, Time, Quality
• Chapter 8 - Exchanges and Imbalances
• Chapter 9 - Phases of the Game
• Chapter 10 - The Attacker's Advantage
  • "failure to innovative is riskier still"
    • (before "The will to attack")
    • discussion on Darwnism and the importance of "aggressive" innovation
    • Seedea:Research/StrategicalEpistemology

Part III

• Chapter 11 - Question Success
• Chapter 12 - The Inner Game
• Chapter 13 - Man vs. Machine
  • StrategyLessons#AvancedRTS
• Chapter 14 - Intuition
• Chapter 15 - Crisis Point
• Engame

See also

• StrategyLessons
• add discussion with metaphaze that lead to the interest in this book
  • 21:08 blinkenshell/#blinkenshell 28/07/2010
• http://www.howlifeimitateschess.com
• Seedea:Research/Datasets
• L'art de la guerre par l'exemple by Frederic Encel, Falmmarion 2000
  • read more than 5 years ago
  • no notes yet
• Wikipedia:Garry Kasparov
• Wikipedia:Teimour Radjabov
• Wikipedia:Chess Engines rating lists#Chess_engine_rating_lists
• How life imitates chess interview provided by Echecs Academie 2007
• Garry Kasparov - The Colbert Report - 10/17/07, Comedy Central 2007
• Grand Master Kasparov interviewed by Bill Maher, HBO 2007
• Garry Kasparov Interview on Skavlan, SVT 2009
• Garry Kasparov, Authors@Google November 2010
• reviews
  • by Xaprb, 2009

April 20th, 2009

Overall remarks and questions

• eventually to share at MBE10

Synthesis

So in the end, it was about X and was based on Y.

Critics

Point A, B and C are debatable because of e, f and j.

Vocabulary

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Post-reading model

Draw a schema (using PmGraphViz or another solution) of the situation of the area in the studied domain after having read the book. Link it to the pre-reading model and align the two to help easy comparison.

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