Descripción

American Dream: The Best Games of Hikaru Nakamura Hikaru is a five-time US chess champion, ranked as high as second in the world with a stratospheric peak rating of 2816, the 10th highest of all time.

He is also a top chess streamer with over a million followers across social media, consistently on the list of the five wealthiest gamers in the world.

American Dream: The Best Games

Nakamura has represented the US in 5 Olympiads, earning a team Gold and two Bronze medals.

“Naka’s” chess style is confrontational. He thrives on aggression, confrontation and complications, making him one of the most entertaining players in the world.

In 72 fully annotated games, this book covers Hikaru’s most exciting and instructive battles against many of the world’s top players.

Hikaru Nakamura

Opponents include world champions Carlsen, Kramnik, Anand, and Ding Liren, leading US rivals Caruana, So and Shankland, as well as other world-class players such as Short, Nepo, Gelfand, Karjakin, Topalov, and Kamsky.

Author: Cyrus Lakdawala

Cyrus Lakdawala was born in Mumbai, India, in 1960, moved to Montreal, Canada, in 1966, and later moved at age 18 to San Diego, California, where he continues to reside. He reached a peak USCF rating of 2597 in 1994 and obtained the IM title in 2002.

He is a 6-time Southern California State Champion and won the San Diego Chess Club Championship 23 times.

American Dream: The Best Games of Hikaru Nakamura

Cyrus began writing chess books in 2009 and since then has written 77 books, making him the most prolific chess writer in the world. He continues to coach and two of his students became International Masters. Amercan dream is his second book for Elk and Ruby.

Introduction

Our heroes are reflections of who we want to be. The unattainable goal of the cheap copy (us!) is to one day become the original. Yet we try, since great players gift our own chess with inspiration.

There are two players in the chess world who draw the biggest crowds. The first is Magnus Carlsen and the second, Hikaru Nakamura, whose games are the subject of this book. Hikaru is the player I always wanted to be, confident, supremely talented and what feels like (to me at least), all-seeing at the board. Living the American Dream.

American Dream: The Best Games

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