Every Move Must Have a Purpose

Strategies from Chess for Business and Life

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By Bruce Pandolfini

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From the world-renowned chess teacher, a guide to applying the principles of the game to beating the competition in any endeavor.

Fluid and elegant, yet rigorous and rule-bound, chess is a game that seduces, confounds, and hooks. Now, world-renowned chess master and Fortune 500 business consultant Bruce Pandolfini shows readers how chess principles can be simply and logically applied to any business or life situation. No specific chess knowledge is needed, but after reading Every Move Must Have a Purpose, you will share with the most astute chess players the secret to thinking on your feet.

From the celebrated ‘chairman of the board’ comes the secrets of strategy that everyone will find useful, including:

  • Be aggressive, but don’t take unnecessary chances
  • Answer all threats with a counterthreat
  • When exchanging, always get at least as much as you give up


Crisply and engagingly written, with entertaining examples and chess anecdotes, Every Move Must Have a Purpose will improve your strategic thinking so you’ll never again debate your next move.

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On Sale
Nov 5, 2003
Page Count
128 pages
Publisher
Hachette Books
ISBN-13
9780786868858

Bruce Pandolfini

About the Author

Bruce Pandolfini is perhaps the most experienced chess teacher in North America. He is the author of eighteen instructional chess books, and was portrayed by Ben Kingsley in the film Searching for Bobby Fischer.

Laszlo Polgar is a Hungarian chess teacher whose writing and strategies are respected and known worldwide. He holds the title of master coach and coached his daughters, Susan, Judit, and Sophia, to several world championships and d Olympic gold medals. They host the annual EU PolgáChess Festival in Budapest.

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