The book contains 119 deeply annotated games of the greatest players during their greatest triumphs. From the cover: Cyrus Lakdawala takes you on a trip through chess history looking at peak performances of some of the greatest players who ever lived: Morphy, Steinitz, Pillsbury, Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Botvinnik, Fischer, Tal, Kasparov, Karpov, Caruana and Carlsen. They all had very different playing styles, yet at a certain point in their rich careers they all entered the zone and simply wiped out the best players in the world. Bibliography, index of players. Pictures 2-3 show the contents of the book. The book won the American Chess Journalists award for Best Instructional Book for 2020. Further information about the book is available at newinchess.com
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