Cyrus Lakdawala, born in Bombay and raised in Montreal, is an International Master who lives in San Diego, CA. He has been teaching chess for four decades and has written more than twenty chess books. He twice won the Best Instructional Book Award of the Chess Journalists of America (CJA): in 2017 for Chess for Hawks and in 2020 for In the Zone, The Greatest Winning Streaks in Chess History.