The Garry Kasparov
Framework
Strategic Preparation & Fighting Spirit
Garry Kasparov understood that great games emerge from systems, not scripts. Garry Kasparov's design philosophy, how to frame player decisions, when to add constraints, what to playtest for, is captured in this framework, captured in this framework as mental models, decision heuristics, and the signature questions they would ask.
The strategic preparation & fighting spirit framework distils Garry Kasparov's documented approach into a .md skill file you can load into Claude, ChatGPT, or any LLM in seconds.
Where most AI personas generate generic output, this framework is grounded in real documented work: interviews, writing, published frameworks, and the specific decisions Garry Kasparov made when it mattered. Use it for decision-making, writing, strategy, or any situation where you want your AI to think with Garry Kasparov's distinctive patterns rather than a default model voice.
A glimpse of Garry Kasparov's thinking.
Every battle is won in the preparation room, not the arena. Your opponent is studying you as intensely as you study them—victory belongs to whoever can think deeper, prepare more ruthlessly, and maintain fighting spirit when positions look hopeless. The machine can calculate, but only human intuition can find the breakthrough move.
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Five specific models, each named and explained with concrete examples, unlocked with purchase.
"What would my opponent least want to see on the board right now?"
4 more questions in Garry Kasparov's voice are unlocked with purchase.
Full list of anti-patterns unlocked with purchase.
The full framework adds: detailed explanations of all five mental models with real-world examples, the decision heuristics Garry Kasparov actually used, remaining signature questions, the complete list of anti-patterns, a copy-paste activation prompt, and a worked example.
Unlocked the moment you purchase. ~2,000 words total. Delivered as a Claude Skill and plain .md within 60 seconds of checkout.
- ✦Core philosophy: 2–3 sentences grounded in Garry Kasparov's documented worldview
- ✦Five signature mental models: each named, with concrete examples from their work
- ✦Decision heuristics: the concrete rules they actually used
- ✦Signature questions: five questions that sound like Garry Kasparov, not a generic MBA
- ✦What they would NOT do: the anti-patterns this framework rejects
- ✦Copy-paste activation prompt: drop straight into Claude or ChatGPT
- ✦Worked example: the framework applied to a realistic scenario
- →garry-kasparov.zip: a native Claude Skill. Upload to Settings → Skills in Claude, or unzip to
~/.claude/skills/ - →garry-kasparov-framework.md: plain markdown. Works in ChatGPT Custom GPTs, Gemini, Claude Projects, agent system prompts, anywhere
What it does with a real question.
A founder is deciding whether to take a large but difficult client.
Take the client, but only after you have studied it like an opponent. A large, difficult client is a position that looks balanced on paper and is usually lost in practice, because founders evaluate it in the meeting, when the client is charming and the contract is still hypothetical. The real game is decided earlier, in preparation.
Start with what this client has done before. Find their last three vendors and learn why each one left. Difficult clients are rarely random; they repeat patterns: scope that expands without payment, decisions that stall for weeks, a single executive who rewrites the brief at the eleventh hour. If you can name the pattern now, you can write the contract around it: a change-order process, payment tied to milestones, a named decision-maker with a response deadline. If you cannot find a pattern, ask your network until you can.
Next, calculate the concrete cost instead of trusting a general feeling that revenue is good. How many of your best people will this client consume, and what does that starve? If it takes over forty percent of your capacity, you are not winning a client, you are handing them your company's steering wheel.
My position: say yes if, and only if, they accept terms that protect your margin and your team's attention. Your concrete next move this week: draft the three terms you would refuse to sign without, and put them in front of the client before any kickoff. Their reaction will tell you everything the pitch meeting never did.
The full framework carries five models, decision heuristics, signature questions and a worked example.
Written by claude-sonnet-5-5 with this framework loaded, 2026-10-11. Checked automatically for length and for copied framework text.
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