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    How to Beat Magnus Carlsen: Exploring the Most Difficult Challenge in Chess

    Cyrus Lakdawala

    Magnus Carlsen is arguably the strongest player of all time. His dominance is such that every loss comes as a shock. They remind us that even he has his weak…

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    Squeeze Play

    Cyrus Lakdawala

    A squeeze play occurs when a player with a minimal advantage is able to nurse this edge to victory by continually setting their opponent difficult problems. In this book Cyrus…

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    Tactical Training in the Endgame

    Cyrus Lakdawala

    This book that provides fundamental guidelines to improve the reader’s understanding of tactical themes in the endgame.

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    Capablanca: Move by Move

    Cyrus Lakdawala

    Cyrus Lakdawala studies his favourite Capablanca games. He examines Capablanca’s renowned skills in attack, defence, counter-attack, exploiting imbalances, accumulating advantages and his legendary endgame play.

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    First Steps: The French: The French

    Cyrus Lakdawala

    First Steps is a new opening series and is ideal for improving players who want simple and straightforward explanations.

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    Opening Repertoire: The Petroff Defence

    Cyrus Lakdawala

    This book examines all aspects of the highly complex Petroff Defence and provides the reader with well-researched, fresh, and innovative analysis.

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    The Nimzo-Larsen Attack: Move by Move

    Cyrus Lakdawala

    International Master Cyrus Lakdawala examines the Nimzo-Larsen Attack. He studies the typical plans and tactics for both sides, offers repertoire options for White, provides answers to all the key questions…

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    The Greatest Attacker in Chess: The Enigmatic Rashid Nezhmetdinov

    Cyrus Lakdawala

    Rashid Nezhmetdinov (1912-1974) played fearless attacking chess. With his dazzling style, the Soviet master already was a legend during his lifetime, but international fame largely eluded him. Only once did…

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    Irrational Chess

    Cyrus Lakdawala

    Sometimes games appear that seem to have been played on a different planet. Conventional strategies go out of the window and familiar tactical themes are nowhere to be seen. Pieces…

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    The Anti-Alapin Gambit

    Cyrus Lakdawala, Carsten Hansen

    When you are ready for a great fighting game in the Sicilian Defense, there are few things there are more annoying than facing the hatefully solid 2.c3 variation, the so-called…

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    Chess Tactics - Volume 2: Sharpen your tactical ability daily on your way to mastery

    Carsten Hansen

    The follow-up to the internationally bestselling volume 1.

    Are you ready to seriously improve your game? It has been said that chess is 99% tactics but whether that is an…

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    Basman’s Folly

    Carsten Hansen, Cyrus Lakdawala

    Is the Grob/Basman a con artist's bogus-operandi, or is the line actually sound? The truthful answer is that the opening is a bit of both! And we can call 1…

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    Origins

    Carsten Hansen, Cyrus Lakdawala

    Today's openings are reruns of an old sitcom that we have all seen a hundred times before, while for players in the past, life on the chess board was wild…

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    Chess Endgame Planning

    Carsten Hansen, Cyrus Lakdawala

    In the phase of the game, the endgame, strange things happen. Material advantages don't bring home the expected fruits, wins vanish, draws slip away, and frustrations build. Why is it…

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    Reaching the Top?!: A Practical Guide to Playing Master-Level Chess

    Peter Kurzdorfer

    What Does It Take to Play Master-Level Chess?

    Becoming a master is a goal many chessplayers seek. And for most, it is an unfulfilled dream. Now, for the first time…

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    Opening Repertoire: …C6: Playing the Caro-Kann and Slav as Black

    Cyrus Lakdawala,Keaton Kiewra

    This book provides a rock solid opening repertoire for Black, using systems based on the move …c6. The backbone of this repertoire is the Caro-Kann versus 1 e4 and the…

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    The Makogonov Variation

    Cyrus Lakdawala, Carsten Hansen

    The King's Indian Defense has a reputation as a sharp combative opening where Black aims to attack on the kingside, usually through a pawn storm supported by heavier artillery. Meet…

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