Book- How Life Imitates Chess

I am currently reading the book How Life Imitates Chess by Garry Kasparov. I think its a great book of a mix of his life and of tips of how to play good chess. What i love about it is that its not a chess instructional book but it still gives help within it.

What do other people that have read it think?

PS Im only on chapter 4.!!! 

There were some good points in the book. But I thought there was a bit of fluff too :)

I'm a firm believer that anything* can be made to seem like anything. Life and chess have been pulled together many times, and if you want it to work it will work.

 My pet sheepdog is like chess, it is black and white. It always positions itself well and I fall over it, because I calculated wrongly that I could get past. This is much like my chess skills, I've studied tactics but still sometimes calculate wrongly, also position players always get the better of me and trip me up.

 I've made all the above up, which is like chess never trust your oppenents moves!

That's me I've fiinished this post, which is like chess it has an endgame - like life which has death, but then there are more games, just like reincarnation, which is like chess.................

 I could go on but everyones suffered enough :)

 In fact, for your own pleasure, try and link aspects of your life to chess, I bet you can do it really easily!

*anything, within reason - or maybe I'm not creative enought to link the two

I have read the book.  I like the way Kasparov touches on areas such as business innovations, the lovely quotations,  grandmasters assessment of other grandmasters. It is a book that can be enjoyed by non chess players.   

Almost any book for a serious beginner id recommend chess for dummies 2nd edition

Hope that helps

thanks so much :)

any time

Does this book talk about the day-to-day life of Kasparov?  I always want to know what those super GMs do from the time they're up to bedtime.  For us commoners, we go to school or work most of the day.  I wonder if the GMs held other jobs or they play chess all day.

NeedFood

Not really. However, he is super organised and sticks to routines. He also seems to be a bit of a mummys boy, she appears to have some influence over him. I find it all a bit creepy, reminds me of Jimmy Saville and the Duchess (that'll mean little to you, so just trust me).

Honestly, NeedFood, a book of his day to day life would be quite boring. I don't know this for sure, but I think I'd rather read about your life :)

NeedFood wrote:

Does this book talk about the day-to-day life of Kasparov?  I always want to know what those super GMs do from the time they're up to bedtime.  For us commoners, we go to school or work most of the day.  I wonder if the GMs held other jobs or they play chess all day.

no it doesn't talk about anyones day to day lives, As for other jobs Botvinnik had another ocupation i believe (forget what it is) and many otheres did to, but the full time players were mostly more successful (mostly)