Cyrus Lakdawala: Winning Ugly in Chess

New In Chess, paperback, Englisch, ISBN: 978-90-5691-828-6, 336 Seiten, 2019.

Winning Ugly in Chess: Playing Badly is No Excuse for Losing. A lucid, compelling and funny book.

If you rather win a bad game than lose a good one, this your ideal guide!

For amateur chess players the road to victory is frequently full of bumps and misadventures. Cyrus Lakdawala knows that playing good chess is all very well, but that beating your opponent is better.

Lakdawala demonstrates the fine art of winning undeserved victories: miraculously surviving chaos, vile cheapos, refusing to resign in a lost position, lucky breaks, provoking unforced errors and other ways to land on your feet after a roller-coaster ride.


Cyrus Lakdawala is an International Master, a former National Open and American Open Champion, and a six-time State Champion. He has been teaching chess for 30 years.

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