
How Life Imitates Chess
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- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Opening Gambit
- The secret of success
- Why chess?
- A map of the mind
- Better decision-making cannot be taught, but it can be self-taught
- Part I
- Chapter 1-The Lesson
- Personal lessons from the world champion
- Becoming aware of the process
- Chapter 2-Strategy
- Success at any speed
- "Why?" turns tacticians into strategists
- An ever-expanding example
- Play your own game
- You cannot always determine the battlefield
- A frequently changed strategy is the same as no strategy
- Don't watch the competition more than you watch yourself
- Once you have a strategy, employing it is a matter of desire
- Chapter 3-Strategy and Tactics at Work
- Element of surprise
- A genius for development
- Sticking with a plan
- Confidence and the time factor
- Never give in-never, never, never
- Chapter 4-Calculation
- Calculation must be focused and disciplined
- Imagination, calculation, and my greatest game
- Chapter 5-Talent
- Recognizing the patterns in our lives
- The power of fantasy
- Fantasy can cut through fog
- Developing the habit of imagination
- Be aware of your routines, then break them
- Chapter 6-Preparation
- Results are what matter
- Inspiration vs. perspiration
- Preparation pays off in many ways
- Turning a game into a science
- Targeting ourselves for efficiency
- Part II
- Chapter 7-MTQ: Material, Time, Quality
- Evaluation trumps calculation
- Material, the fundamental element
- Time is money
- When time matters most
- The third factor: quality
- What makes a bad bishop bad?
- Putting the elements into action
- Double-edged evaluation
- Personal return on investment
- MTQ on the home front
- Chapter 8-Exchanges and Imbalances
- Freezing the game
- The search for compensation
- The laws of thermodynamics, chess, and quality of life
- Strategy on the browser battlefield
- All change comes at a cost
- Overextending our reach
- Chapter 9-Phases of the Game
- Know why we make each move we make
- Art is born from creative conflict
- Make sure a good peace follows a good war
- Eliminating phase bias
- Don't bring a knife to a gunfight
- Chapter 10-The Attacker 's Advantage
- Flexing your intuition leads to strong decision-making
- The aggression double standard
- The initiative rarely rings twice
- An attacker by choice
- The transition from imitator to innovator
- The will to attack
- Part III
- Chapter 11-Question Success
- Success is the enemy of future success
- The gravity of past success
- Competition and anticomplacency tactics
- In favor of contradiction
- The difference between better and different
- Chapter 12-The Inner Game
- The game can be won before you get to the board
- The storm before the calm
- Don't get distracted while trying to distract
- Breaking the spell of pressure
- Staying objective when the chips are down
- Pretenders to the crown and fatal flaws
- Chapter 13-Man vs. Machine
- Enter the machines
- And a child shall lead us
- Kasparov vs. Deep Blue
- If you can't beat 'em, join 'em
- Staying out of the comfort zone
- Chapter 14-Intuition
- We know more than we understand
- Intuition vs. analysis
- How long is long enough?
- The perils of ignoring a trend
- Chapter 15-Crisis Point
- One single moment
- Detecting a crisis before it's a crisis
- Learning from a crisis
- A final chess story: the crisis in Seville
- Must-win strategy
- Errors on both sides
- Keeping a grip on the title
- Endgame
- The fight in Russia today
- Your life is your preparation
- No more secrets
- Epilogue
- A strategy for democracy
- Glossary
- Acknowledgments
- Dedication
- Copyright Page
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