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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

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

(:new_vocabulary_start:) new_word (:new_vocabulary_end:)

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.

How Life Imitates Chess {ReadingNotes}