The Comfort Zone - by Gormally (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

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 tragicomic memoir as he also reveals his strategy for taking on his biggest rivals and how best to use computers to improve your chess.

Review Quotes

The Comfort Zone: Keys to Your Chess
Success by Daniel Gormally falls into the improvement category and is
intended for a target audience of roughly 1800-2300, though I suspect even
stronger players will find parts of this book of interest. Written in Gormally's

entertaining and self-deprecating style, The Comfort Zone: Keys to Your
Chess Success offers a potpourri of suggestions on how to improve backed up
with carefully chosen.

One example illustrates how far opening theory has advanced due to ever more
powerful engines.

Gormally -
Haussernot, played at Hastings in 2015.

Gormally writes he
had mixed feelings after this game. That winning without essentially making a
move of his own didn't provide satisfaction. Personal observations like these
are found throughout The Comfort Zone: Keys to Your Chess Success and
make this book a fascinating read for those wanting an insider's look at top level
chess.

IM John Donaldson, US Chess, 09.2021.