BestMoves is a learning program designed by FideAcademy.com whose aim is to improve managers' skills and performances through the chess metaphor.

1. BEST
MOVES!
Business & Finance©
BEST
MOVES!
Scacchi

2. chess as a metaphor of managing skills improvement, which are complex both
from a goal oriented and a process and resources management perspectives.
Experiential approach to the learning process, which integrates managament’s
main topics with chess principles and Jungian psycological types.
METAFORIC
Setting
CHESS POSITION
COMPANY/MARKET SITUATION
MAKE A MOVE
TAKE A DECISION
CHESS GRANDMASTER
GENERAL MANAGER
BEST
MOVES!

3. BEST MOVES!
the 9 competences
development
brand new training program consisting
of 10 one-day workshops
1 day Insights Discovery for the self potential improvement
and 9 days for the development and the integration of the
most important competences in the management field
Each managing skill is analyzed and joined to the the basic
chess principles and to Jungian psycological types’ attitudes.
Every training session is customizable by choosing some
of the 9 moves/competeces and extending the experience
longer than the one-day workshop.

4. SCENARIO
Today’s world is complex, mutant
and characterized by fast changes
with an always higher competitivenes
and technology asset.
THE
IDEA
Customers’ request of having new training programs
chess attractive mental power
comparative studies between managers and chess players’
skills (Selz and De Groot)
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MOVES!

5. CONCEPT
GM
Great
Metaphor
Grand
Master
Good
Moves
General
Manager
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MOVES!

6. SUCCESS
IN 9 MOVES!
Focus on the potential
INSIGHTS
DISCOVERY
PROJECT
MANAGEMENT
TEAM MANAGEMENT
& LEADERSHIP
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE/
RISK MANAGEMENT
TIME
MANAGEMENT
DECISION MAKING
& PROBLEM SOLVING
CREATIVE
THINKING
STRESS
MANAGEMENT
STRATEGIC
PLANNING

7. CHESS
& FINANCE
TRADING PLAN
Risk management vs know your arena
in chess:
your plan Vs know your opponent
risk management:
a strategy works if the risk management is correct,
as tacticts without a sound strategy won’t work
the risk/reward ratio: markets change, chess and trends change:
how important is to keep yourself updated in finance and in chess?

8. TRAINER
Alessandro
ALMONTI
Trainer and coach, he works in the field organizational behavior, as instructor,
training manager and manager of training programs.
He collaborates with several Italian and foreign universities, he is chief of the
Italian branch of IAC (International Association of Coaching) and he was Vice
President of the AIF Associazione Italiana Formatori - (Board of Lazio Region) and
Coaching National Responsibile always for AIF. He introduced in 2006 (in several
Italian and international big companies) the chess metaphor as development
model for organizational behavior. Chess Candidate Master since 1990.
He is a FIDE and Italian Chess Federation instructor.

9. TRADER
Luca
BARILLARO
Trader and indipendent counselor. He worked in London in the banking sector
in the 1990s and started his own business in 1998 in Italy,
providing independent advisory services to High Net Worth individuals and
institutions, on stock, bond and investment funds. Specialized in strategies in
complex options and structured products, he provides support to corporate
treasuries on swaps and hedging on products, rates and currencies.
Lecturer for the London Stock Exchange Academy (Milan branch), he recently
presented his research on High Frequency Trading and the microstructure of
financial markets in Chicago at the Futures Industry Association, in London
(Option Industry Council),Amsterdam and Warsaw (FOW conference).

10. GRAND
MASTER
Roberto
MOGRANZINI
Chess International Grand Master,he is among the only 8 people who can count on this
title in the entire Italian history. He is a professional since 2006.
CEO of Accademia Internazionale di Scacchi, company specialized in chess training at
high levels and titled by FIDE (International Chess Federation)
as one of the best 10 academies in the world.
Italian champion U17 in 1999, Italian champion in team in 2008 and 2014,
he takes part several times to team competitions with the national team,
one of the most important Turin 2006 and the Mind Games of Beijing 2008.
Chairmain of FIDE Skills Management Committee.

11. our
PORTFOLIO

12. Accademia Internazionale di Scacchi
www.fideacademy.com
info@fideacademy.com
Mob. +39.392.2159003
“Chess is a good metaphor of competition in business.
There is a huge presence of uncertainty and an almost unlimited variety of
moves to be made both in chess and business”
Garry Kasparov (XIII World Champion)
BEST
MOVES!