Garry Kasparov
Chess Grandmaster, Writer, Political Activist
For over twenty years former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov has been the highest-rated chess player in the world. An icon with a reputation of invincibility, his battle with IBM's Deep Blue brought worldwide attention to the game of chess. As a speaker and a master of strategy, he applies the insights and unique perspective from his extraordinary chess career to the issues of leadership, logical thinking, strategy, innovation and success. Through his customized presentations, he takes audiences into the world of calculus, deep thought, the analytical mind, and what constitutes intelligence.
For over twenty years former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov has been the highest-rated chess player in the world. He is widely considered the greatest chess player that ever lived, and has achieved many milestones throughout his career. As a child prodigy he became a chess grandmaster at the age of 17, and the youngest World Chess Champion at the age of 22. From 1981 – 1991 Kasparov won every major match in which he participated, creating a reputation of invincibility. His face-off against IBM's Deep Blue computer brought worldwide attention to the game of chess. Kasparov remains the only icon in a game of over 100 million players.
Kasparov announced his retirement from professional chess in 2005 to devote time to his writing, and to become a full-time member of the Russian political opposition movement.
As a speaker and a master of strategy, he applies the insights and unique perspective from his extraordinary chess career to the issues of leadership, logical thinking, strategy, innovation and success. Kasparov takes audiences into the world of calculus, deep thought, the analytical mind, and what constitutes intelligence. He has been at the forefront of innovation in chess for over twenty years through his battles between man and computer. Known to be a very intuitive chess player, Kasparov also emphasizes intuition's role in achieving one's full potential as an individual and as a leader. Forceful, compelling and knowledgeable are words used to describe his speeches.
Kasparov is the author of the multiple-volume My Great Predecessors and How Life Imitates Chess.
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6. Private Chess Game With Garry Kasparov
Ideal for a birthday or retirement gift. Recipient plays a friendly once in a lifetime chess game with the greatest chess champion ever.
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5. An Evening With Garry Kasparov
Private dinner with Garry Kasparov. The host and clients, less than 20 people to be effective No formal speech – just conversation over a two to three-hour period, topics include world politics, Russia strategy, trends and topics of general interest.
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4. Simultaneous Chess Exhibition
A ”SIMUL” is a masterful display of chess. This intriguing contest involves up to 20 amateur opponents playing simultaneously against Garry. Always for fun, easy to organize and usually for corporate entertainment. Organizer can add any number of spectators/guests.
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3. Seminar
A seminar with Garry Kasparov is a unique chance to get hands-on coaching from a man with a lifetime of high-pressure peak performance to share. These customized sessions focus on getting the participants to evaluate their own decision-making process, to find their strengths and weaknesses and, as Kasparov puts it, “to upgrade their mental software.” Working in groups and directly with Kasparov, the seminars are an instructive and entertaining tour through dynamic decision-making scenarios, each prepared especially for the client. Previous seminars have included examples from the worlds of business, politics, and even military history.
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2. Armchair Speech With Moderator
Same as keynote speech except that Kasparov is unscripted and dialogue is “off the cuff”.
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1. Keynote Presentation
Forceful, compelling and knowledgeable are words used to describe a speech by Garry Kasparov. Speaking in English. The subject matter is at your selection and ranges from Strategy, Chess & Life, Logical Thinking to Politics and World Affairs.
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October 2010Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess, Part 4: 1988-2009
The fourth book in the series detailing the epic World Championship chess matches between Kasparov and Karpov in their long careers. Between 1984 and 1990 Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov contested five long matches for the World Championship. This fourth volume of the series 'Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess' concentrates on all the games played between the two from 1988 to the present day and features their fifth World Championship match played in New York and Lyon 1990.
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November 2009How Life Imitates Chess
One of the most highly regarded strategists of our time teaches us how the tools that made him a world chess champion can make us more successful in business and in life.
Garry Kasparov was the highest-rated chess player in the world for over twenty years and is widely considered the greatest player that ever lived. In How Life Imitates Chess Kasparov distills the lessons he learned over a lifetime as a Grandmaster to offer a primer on successful decision-making: how to evaluate opportunities, anticipate the future, devise winning strategies.
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October 2000Kasparov Against the World: The Story about the Greatest Online Challenge
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