Jonathan Rowson
Born
in Aberdeen, The United Kingdom
April 18, 1977
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The Seven Deadly Chess Sins
6 editions
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2000
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Chess for Zebras
5 editions
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2003
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The Moves That Matter: A Chess Grandmaster on the Game of Life
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Understanding the Grunfeld
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1998
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De juiste zet
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THE POWER OF CURIOSITY. HOW LINKING INQUISITIVENESS TO INNOVATION COULD HELP TO ADDRESS OUR ENERGY CHALLENGES
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The New In Chess Book of Chess Improvement
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Secrets of Opening Surprises 2
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2004
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“I was beginning to understand that the best kinds of freedom involved choosing your constraints wisely, and claiming them as your own.”
― The Moves That Matter: A Chess Grandmaster on the Game of Life
― The Moves That Matter: A Chess Grandmaster on the Game of Life
“Maturing into a viable adulthood is partly about discipline, but it is also about luck. Aldous Huxley famously wrote that experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you. That is profoundly correct. Our life experience is not one event after the other but a series of opportunities to grow by making sense of what is meaningful and what isn't. Some do that better than others.”
― The Moves That Matter: A Chess Grandmaster on the Game of Life
― The Moves That Matter: A Chess Grandmaster on the Game of Life
“Metaphors matter because they give conceptual shape to life, and we live within the dimensions of those shapes as if they were real. The cognitive scientists George Lakoff and Mark Johnson suggest: ‘Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.’ Life really is ‘a journey’, ‘big’ things really are significant, sophisticated ideas really are ‘deep’. Such conceptual shapes are real because we make them so. It helps to wake up to the fact that we are to some extent free to create new conceptual shapes, indeed that this may offer our only hope for a genuinely new world.”
― The Moves That Matter: A Chess Grandmaster on the Game of Life
― The Moves That Matter: A Chess Grandmaster on the Game of Life
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