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