Every Move Must Have a Purpose
Strategies from Chess for Business and Life

Listened to this book: average business advice; really good chess stories.......more

It's a thin book that overgeneralizes in trying to connect to chess and business examples in each case. Overall, I would still highly recommend it as a meta-cognitive refresher on how to think about thinking and it has some great stories about chess grandmasters and the lessons told through their ga......more

I enjoyed the short stories about some of the famous chess games and the strategies that grandmasters employed in them. It mentions among others Alekhine, Morphy, Capablanca, and triggered my interest to explore those particular games more. It doesn’t teach chess tactics and there’s not a single dia......more

I was struggling to remember the exact details about the university I toured in Philly before my computer gave up. It's not important in comparison with how Pandolfini had laid out these fifteen principles with a droll "chessary" (glossary) at the end to explain what everything means. You, too, may b......more

Stick to Pandolfini reflections on chess. Stories and how he tied these to unique strategies is a 4.5. Application to business situations/strategies/scenarios, too generic and under-developed to make much sense, a 2. Still, I enjoyed the book and will re-read - it’s brief and historically interestin......more