The Comfort Zone - Keys to Your Chess Success

I’ve become increasingly convinced of this comfort zone theory to the degree where I’ve started to apply it to chess. To use the same logic, I believe a chess player is more comfortable in an opening that they have played since childhood. They’ll be less likely to make mistakes in that opening. You can also apply it to tournaments as well.

During the course of the book, I’ll talk about the tournaments that I felt comfortable in, and by the same token the opponents that I felt comfortable facing and the ones that I didn’t feel so happy to play.

Provisionally entitled The Comfort Zone: why the tournaments you play; your mindset and your opening choices might be the key to your chess success.

Chapter list:
1. The comfort zone.
2. The war against superficiality.
3. How I prepared for the British.
4. The Brooks Koepka method, and the importance of competitive conditioning.
5. Why computers are narrowing opening theory.
6. Understanding with Mr Liem.
7. Grandmaster vs Amateur.
8. How to defeat certain players, and the lockdown tournament.
9. Can you make 12 strengthening moves in a row?
10. Madman theory.
11. Gorm attacks: the good, the bad, and the Tinder swipe left ugly.
12. The platform and the Petroff.
13. Revenge pawn.

Have you ever wondered why you do well in certain tournaments and not in others? If your opening choices are the right ones? If your attacking play is good, bad, or Tinder swipe left ugly?

In this entertaining account, the author explains how to achieve success in chess we need to understand our what works for us, but to achieve true mastery we should prepare to go beyond our zone of comfort.

Along the way he takes us on a journey through his own world of discovery and explains how he became one of the best chess players in England. It’s a deeply honest and at times tragi-comic memoir as he also reveals his strategy for taking on his biggest rivals and how best to use computers to improve your chess.

• Casa editrice Thinkers Publishing
• Code 7699
• Anno 2021
• Pagine 264
• Isbn 9789464201222