CLEARANCE - In The Zone

CLEARANCE - In The ZoneA winning streak in chess, says Cyrus Lakdawala, is a lot more than just the sum of its games. In this book he examines what it means when everything clicks, when champions become unstoppable and demolish opponents. What does it mean to be in the zone? What causes these sweeps, what sparks them and what keeps them going? And why did they come to an end? Lakdawala takes you on a trip through chess history looking at peak performances of some of the

you’ve secured your first point against an IM

but only a few players employed it on a regular basis

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and in the spirit of I am Malala

exploiting positional mistakes

You will also learn plenty about the Minority Attack and Arkell’s Scale of Pawns

the reader will find fascinating photographs and sketches of the earliest known chessmen

The series in itself is a continuation of Kasparov's mammoth history of chess

After becoming a grandmaster in 1993

followed by Bf1-g2) or playing systems involving Bc1-g5 or Bc1-f4

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