Descripción

A Killer Guide to Attacking Chess provides an expert introduction to the main elements of good attacking chess. From the foundational concepts of Momentum and Include

all the pieces in the attack, to more situational ideas such as Attacking the weakest square, Attacking the strongest square, Evolution/Revolution, the Killzone and much more.

By breaking down attacking play into easily identifiable elements everyone can understand, we see that attacking play is not the result of a genius in action, but a consequence

of positional factors at play. With this knowledge, and the chance to practise it with the sister volume Grandmaster Training Camp 2 – Attack! by GM Sam Shankland,

true attacking greatness is within reach.

A Killer Guide to Attacking Chess

Jacob Aagaard is one of the foremost chess authors in the world, and previously the trainer of GMs Abdusattorov, Gelfand, Shankland and more,

helping many students to reach their full potential and career peaks. Not the least through his online academy killerchesstraining.com.

 

This is the first volume in this new series of Killer Guides, which will take a look at many different areas of chess. The first choice of book is what I personally consider to

be the most difficult area of chess to master, if it does not come naturally to you: the strategy of attacking chess.

Jacob Aagaard

The choice to start at the end, so to speak, is a curious one, dictated by circumstances rather than logic. As a companion to this book, GM Sam Shankland is working on

a book called Grandmaster Training Camp 2 – Attack!, which will see him solve hundreds of exercises on attacking play, provided by me.

As a disclaimer, I should point out that his book will not be as accessible as this book, although it is intended to be useful for club players as well as professionals.

On top of this, we at Quality Chess recently decided to let two of my previous books on attacking technique, Attacking Manual 1 and 2, go out of print.

While these books had good information in them, and have appeared on many lists of recommended titles, some of the analysis has been overturned by powerful engines.

Rather than rewriting them entirely, a new stab at the subject should be more interesting to both the author and the reader.

A Killer Guide to Attacking Chess

«Back to the author for another highly pertinent comment: “It is the nature of chess that it is easy to understand, but hard to do.”

Careful study of this book may just help readers to find attacking a little easier to do.» – Sean Marsh, 

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