★International Grandmaster Cyrus Lakdawala is a battle-tested tournament champion, a “gold-medal” writer who makes profound chess ideas vivid and easy to grasp, and a veteran coach who has molded generations of America’s top juniors.
★Cyrus Lakdawala has repeatedly won the U.S. Chess Journalists Association (CJA) awards for Best Instructional Book and Best Column.
★In one sweeping framework—“Space – Force – Weaknesses”—he tackles the most common yet hardest-to-master strategic problems you actually face over the board.
★Grandmaster depth meets zero-jargon explanations, served with humor and a torrent of examples, so club and intermediate players can leap straight to real improvement and instant results.

The series consists of three volumes:
-Exploiting a Space Advantage
-Exploiting the Bishop Pair
-Winning Chess Strategies

The chess board is rarely big enough for both armies, leading to a fight for the centre, and a fight for space, which together with material and time are key elements of chess strategy. How we fight for extra space and exploit it once conquered is the topic of this volume in the Winning Chess Strategies series, Exploiting a Space Advantage. Cyrus Lakdawala explains how to squeeze your opponents into submission, when a space advantage leads to an attack, why we should be careful not to overextend, as well as many more concepts that can help you better understand the elusive concept of space. Get ready to stop feeling cramped and start grabbing some space!

International Master Cyrus Lakdawala is one of the leading chess authors of our time, renowned for his humour, all-encompassing love of the game, and ability to explain chess in plain terms. His books have won multiple accolades, including the Chess.com Book of the Year Award 2024 for Unknown Fischer.