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How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom

Book by Garry Kasparov · 5 quotes · Chess, Ifs, Success

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“To my surprise I found that when other top players in the precomputer age (before 1995, roughly) wrote about games in magazines and newspaper columns, they often made more mistakes in their annotations than the players had made at the board.”

“Ironically, the main task of chess software companies today is to find ways to make the program weaker, not stronger, and to provide enough options that any user can pick from different levels and the machine will try to make enough mistakes to give him a chance.”