![]() The conditions on the chessboard are fixed, and so are the rules. That is something that Kasparov himself remembers to point out. Even if chess offers rich metaphors for business and life, they are not exactly the same thing. Kasparov’s decision-making fingerprint is arguably as good as it gets, at least in the context of chess. It’s no wonder why many have tried to get Kasparov to form simple lists of advice on how to think, decide and win. You can’t rely 100% on the successes of others,” he explains. Every person has their formula for decision making, it is like a fingerprint. The formula that worked for someone else, might not work for you. You should always be very cautious when trying to copy-paste. It is as unique as yours or anybody else’s. ”I have to emphasize that my advice comes from my own experience, from the Garry Kasparov perspective. That is why he want’s to highlight something important. Still, even for someone who has time and time again out-thought anybody sitting across a chessboard from him, the topic is by no means simple. Kasparov is by any standards a master chess strategist and sure has made some bold moves in his personal life as well. He’s here to talk about strategy, a topic that every professional chess player knows a thing or two about. Kasparov sits on a chair in a beautiful setting on the upper west side of Manhattan. Having won the chess world title as the youngest person ever, defending the title successfully several times in a row, and being ranked the world’s number one player for 20 years until his retirement in 2005, Kasparov’s merits speak for themselves. Garry Kasparov, the now 52-year old Russian, is widely considered to know more about those positions than any other human on the planet. Hidden in a chessboard’s 64 squares, there is a mind-boggling amount of logically possible chess positions. Besides natural talent, relentless work for developing decision-making abilities and strategical thinking was always a critical part of his success. Kasparov also shares his solution to what he calls the champion's dilemma, a question for all world masters, whether they are in business, sports, or chess: Where does a virtuoso go after he has accomplished everything he's ever wanted to, even beyond his wildest imagination? If you are lucky, says Kasparov, your enemies will push you to be passionate about staying at the top.Garry Kasparov didn’t become a world chess champion by chance. In this wide-ranging interview, Kasparov explores the power of chess as a model for business competition the balance that chess players strike between intuition and analysis the significance of his loss to IBM's chess-playing computer, Deep Blue and how his legendary rivalry with Anatoly Karpov, Kasparov's predecessor as World Chess Champion, affected his own success. Kasparov believes that success in both chess and business is very much a question of psychological advantage the complexity of the game demands that players rely heavily on their instincts and on gamesmanship. Coutu talked with Garry Kasparov, the world's number one player since 1984. ![]() Can strategists learn anything from chess players about what it takes to win? To find out, H BR senior editor Diane L. Even people who have scant knowledge of the game instinctively recognize that chess is unusual in terms of its intellectual complexity and the strategic demands it places on players. ![]() The image of two brilliant minds locked in a battle of skill and will-in which chance plays little or no apparent role-is compelling. ![]() It's hard to find a better exemplar for competition than chess. ![]()
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