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Opening Repertoire: The London System

Cyrus Lakdawala

  • Difficulty: Advanced
  • Category: Opening
  • Rating: 1800-2000
  • Readability: 4/10
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How difficult it is to read the book without using a board. A book with 10/10 readability is a bedtime story, a book with 1/10 is a puzzle book full of variations. Readability doesn’t represent the quality of the book.
  • Usefulness: 4/10
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Usefulness is a measure of how useful the book is for chess improvement within the topic it covers. Books with a high usefulness score should help you improve quicker than those with a low score.
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  • 2025
  • Popular Chess
  • Cyrus Lakdawala
  • Pages: 336
  • Physical

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