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My favorite book as a teenager was The Human Side of Chess (1952) by Fred Reinfeld. I devoured it as the only objective book on the world champions ever - only to find much later in life that it is filled with inaccuracies.
Still, it was enjoyable to read then and if I have a few minutes now, I may take it up. It probably will tell me more about Reinfeld than Capablanca et al!
Dunno if Profile of a Prodigy counts, but I always enjoy reading that. Guilty pleasure is "The Queens Gambit" by Walter Tevis. Book version of Searching for Bobby Fischer is definitely worth reading.
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De Quincey
How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom - In his 22-year reign as Grandmaster, Garry Kasparov faced more than a few tough choices under the heat of chess competitons. This is a man who knows a thing or two about making smart decisions, and since his retirement in 2005, Kasparov has put his powerful strategic thinking to work in business and politics, showing that a simple reliance on instincts can guide you through even the most complex challenges. With no shortage of wit or eloquence, he's answered our hardest questions about what factors can make or break a decision-making moment.
A computer beat me in chess, but it was no match when it came to kickboxing
How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom
Did you really read this and enjoy it (asking because you seem to just be posting a summary template rather than your actual thoughts on it)? I found it pretty lightweight and superficial.
Did you really read this and enjoy it (asking because you seem to just be posting a summary template rather than your actual thoughts on it)? I found it pretty lightweight and superficial.
David, I personally read the book more than 2 years ago and since than I changed my management style. I realized that I was afraid of making a mistake and therefore preferred "status quo". Now I take bold decisions without reservation and it paid off for me and the company. Unfortunately, I'm not a professional writer and can't eloquently review this book. In addition, like in all business books, a lot of his recommendations are common sense that has been popularized before him.
A computer beat me in chess, but it was no match when it came to kickboxing
I think that Sun Zhou's "The Ancient Art of War" is one of the best books ever written for chess. Although the book never mentions chess; it is very applicable to chess.
I agree with Craig's post above (Benko's autobiography and Soviet Chess by Soltis). I also must mention Confessions of a Grandmaster by Soltis. Your question is really difficult because I cant limit myself to just one book.
I just bought this book on "Bullet Chess" this afternoon from Larry's Ottawa store and started reading it just 10 minutes ago; it looks quite interesting...
not a tournament/teaching/opening manual book, but a reading book .
Seems obsessive chessists are not literate. Or cannot read. Or wish not to.
Disillusioned and isolated, Zweig committed suicide with his second wife, Charlotte E. Altmann, in Petrópolis, near Rio de Janeiro on February 23, 1942. Brazil's populist dictator, Getulio Vargas, ordered that his burial expenses should be paid for by the state. Zweig's autobiography The World of Yesterday was published posthumously in 1943. In the same year his famous novella The Royal Game, which uses two games of chess to illustrate the psychology of Nazism, was published. In the story Czentovic, a semiliterate peasant chess champion travels on a ship from Europe to South America. He wins the first game, but the second against Dr. B., a Viennese lawyer and refuge, occupies the central part of the story. Dr. B. first began to play chess while in solitary confinement after the Gestapo arrested him. His game against Czentovic becomes an imprisonment of logic for him and he breaks down. "But are we not already guilty of an insulting limitation in calling chess a game? Isn't it also a science, and art, hovering between these two categories like Muhammad's coffin hovered between heaven and earth?" Chess becomes an image of life, in which people move without free will in the hands of gods.
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