Garry Kasparov heads the world-ranked chess for twenty years. In "Life as a chess party", he shares the lessons it has learned during his phenomenal career. On this basis, the world champion developed a system for doing analysis, risk assessment, calculation of the prospects and making the most appropriate solutions for the specific situation in all spheres of life: family, career, social contacts, economics, politics. And to convince us of its reliability, it brings together many examples of his legendary "duel" with other great grosmaystori by Anatoly Karpov, Vladimir Kramnik, Veselin Topalov, and the field of sport, politics and military history.