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The ascension of Vladimir Putin - a former lieutenant colonel of the KGB - to the presidency of Russia in 1999 should have been a signal that the country was headed away from democracy. Yet in the intervening years - as America and the world's other leading powers have continued to appease him - Putin has grown into not only a dictator but a global threat. With his vast resources and nuclear weapons, Putin is at the center of a worldwide assault on political liberty.

How Life Imitates Chess is a primer on how to think, make decisions, prepare strategies, and anticipate the future. Kasparov has distilled the lessons he learned over a lifetime as a chess grandmaster to cover the practical side - tactics, strategy, preparation, as well as the subtler, more human arts of using memory, intuition, and imagination.

Garry Kasparov's 1997 chess match against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue was a watershed moment in the history of technology. It was the dawn of a new era in artificial intelligence: A machine capable of beating the reigning human champion at this most cerebral game. That moment was more than a century in the making, and in this breakthrough audiobook, Kasparov reveals his astonishing side of the story for the first time. He describes how it felt to strategize against an implacable, untiring opponent with the whole world watching.

Garry Kasparov, el gran maestro del tablero, explica cómo las soluciones a los problemas cotidianos requieren de las mismas artes y técnicas que el ajedrez: conocimiento, preparación, estrategia y cálculo de las variantes.

Garry Kasparov gives his first public account of his landmark 1997 chess match with the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue and explains why, 20 years later, he's become convinced that artificial intelligence is good for humans. In May 1997, the world watched as Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess player in the world, was defeated for the first time by the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue. It was a watershed moment in the history of technology....

For over a decade, Russian chess grandmaster, writer and political activist Garry Kasparov shouted early warnings about the rise of demagogues like Trump, about tech stagnation that could lead to pandemics, and, most presciently of all, about the failure of the world to stand up to Putin before he launched his bloody invasion of Ukraine. Kasparov's predictions and moral compass have unerringly pointed true. Now, with his trademark precision, the master strategist diagnoses where it all went wrong.

Insights—like Darwin's understanding of the way evolution actually works, and Watson and Crick's breakthrough discoveries about the structure of DNA-can change the world. We also need insights into the everyday things that frustrate and confuse us so that we can more effectively solve problems and get things done. Yet we know very little about when, why, or how insights are formed—or what blocks them. In Seeing What Others Don't, renowned cognitive psychologist Gary Klein unravels the mystery.

Anyone who wants to turn their real-estate practice into a highly successful business must understand the fundamental models that drive the best real-estate agents in the industry. In The Millionaire Real Estate Agent, these models are revealed and explained. This book from Keller Williams represents the culmination of decades of real-estate experience, research, and consulting, with case studies from some of the top millionaire agents in the U.S.

For more than 20 years, Garry Kasparov dominated the world of chess. As the youngest ever undisputed world champion, known for confounding his opponents at every move and breaking record after record, Kasparov was asked the same question time and time again: what makes a champion? Drawing on a wealth of revealing and instructive stories, from the most intense moments of his greatest games to the world-changing decisions of history's greatest strategists, Kasparov reveals the strategic ways of thinking that always give a player - in the game of life as well as chess - the edge.

Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin!

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Il est courant que les débutants, et même les joueurs intermédiaires, aient du mal à bien jouer une ouverture d'échecs. L'échiquier offre des centaines de possibilités, dont des milliers après seulement quelques coups. Il est fréquent que, face à cette multitude de coups possibles, les débutants ne parviennent pas à choisir le meilleur coup. Cela est dû au fait que de nombreux joueurs n'ont pas été initiés aux principes de base des ouvertures d'échecs et aux stratégies d'une ouverture donnée. Sans ces connaissances préalables, il est naturel pour eux d'opter pour des ...

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Hear chess master and politician Garry Kasparov and actor Casey Affleck, on this edition of Fresh Air. Garry Kasparov is running for president of Russia in 2008 as the leader of an opposition coalition known as The Other Russia. He's also published a new book, called How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, From the Board to the Boardroom. In 2005, Kasparov formed the United Civil Front party, with the mission of working to preserve electoral democracy in Russia.

Ranked as the 259th most powerful computer in the world, Deep Blue was able to evaluate 200 million separate chess positions per ...