“The way chess is played is often a reflection of society and current cultural trends. I see chess being played with machine knowledge in a risk-reducing way just as the people are conducting education and business.”
– Garry Kasparov, past world chess champion.
Two Fridays ago, legendary world chess champion Garry Kasparov, author of Monumental Chess and other books, delivered a talk at the Regional Integration Event of Entrepreneurs’ Organisation titled ‘Checkmate: Reading an Opponent’s Mind. How Life Imitates Chess’ in New Delhi. It would be recalled that some years ago, Kasparov published a bestselling book, How Chess Imitates Life. Entrepreneurs’ Organisation is a global peer-to-peer network meant exclusively for entrepreneurs. The event was a networking platform from around the globe. Some 600 enterprising businessmen attended Kasparov’s talk. Other speakers included a yoga practitioner, a Bollywood film director, celebrated movie stars, business tycoons and former intern at the White House Monica Lewinsky, according to the publication Chess Base. Kasparov’s interactive talk was