Attack with Mikhail Tal

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Summary: your combination and tactical ability will improve!~!!!!!!
Review: A real chess player can't avoid this book for long. This book has the most instructive and thrilling games,diagrams and stories TAL has to offer!!! I recomend would this book to anyone but most of all to players between the rating range of 1500-2200. Hope you enjoy this book as much as i did.It has current example of players like Kasparov,Karpov and The Great Mikhail TAL himself!!! THE MAGICIAN FROM RIGA!

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Summary: A great book.
Review: Even from reading the first few pages my abilities as an attacker on the board has gotten better. To those who ever wonder how he manages to find the right time to attack, this book will show you how. my only complaint is that the book does not discuss attacking on the queenside.

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Summary: How to sacrifice
Review: I believe a reviewer below has confused this book from 1994 with Tal's earlier and more well-known book titled Life and Games. Life and Games is 500 pages, but this book titled Attack with Tal is just under 200 pages and theres no problem with the binding. This was Tal's last book and remains uncompleted because it lacks a chapter on queenside attacks. However what is here is of extremely high quality- each chapter in Attack With Tal starts out with dozens of example positions, then a few complete games by Tal, and then some test problems. All in all there are 16 complete games by Tal, 36 test problems, and more than 100 positions. The diagrams were not labeled with which side to move, so I had to go through the book and check the diagrams off with a pencil- this way I can study the positions before reading the text and the solution. Editing the diagrams took me about an hour as I had to double check my work, but now I have a finished textbook on how to sacrifice. Excellent work and unfortunately Tal died before the book was published. Books that have been published recently about Tal are not as good as this one.

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Summary: Great...
Review: Mikhail Tal's game collection is one of the best books ever written by a world champion, but I cannot recommend this edition and here's why: Cadogan Books always fall apart! Regardless of the size of the book, I cannot get through a Cadogan book without half the pages falling out. The pages started falling out before page 80 of this 496-page book. Tal is probably the best writer of all the world champions, but do you really want to pay twenty-five bucks or so for a book that falls apart while you're reading it and has little or no resale value? Despite all that, if you don't mind reading your books in pieces, by all means buy this book. For you, I give this book 5 stars. Cadogan has several other great chess books and will surely publish more great ones in the future; but I won't be qualified to review them, because I will NEVER buy another Cadogan book again.

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Summary: Simply fantastic
Review: This has got to be one of the best chess books ever!The games,the examples,the analysis,the commentary,everything is simply superb.The games and examples are full of the most amazing sacrifices and combinations you will ever seeYou just must buy this book!

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Summary: Tal's thinking is revealed
Review: When playing over the games of Mikhail Tal's, it is often very difficult to understand where he finds his ultra-aggresive moves. In this book, Tal almost scientifically shows how to think in this fashion. This is a book that belongs on every serious chess player's shelf, and it should be read and re-read whenever a player even thinks of playing positionally.