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Summary: One of the greatest book
Review: Recommend for intermediate players and advanced players !
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Summary: Excellent book for intermediate to advanced players.
Review: The algerbraic edition of this fine book is a must have in any chess library. Its disection of the attacking process is invaluable. It was also reccomended by International Master Jeremy Silman.
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Summary: The most important middlegame chess book I have read to date
Review: The Art of Attack is a book that does not deserve to be out of print. IT is the classic manual on how to attack and it treats all aspects of the attack. IT isn't just a combinative manual: it shows you how the attack on the King is truly a culmination of strategic advantages and what factors in a position are for or against the attack. IT then explains how favorable endgames are linked to brilliant attacks. IT also includes a chapter on defence. This book is guarnteed to increase ytour rating. The only problem is that it's in descriptive notation. But I promise you that it's worth learning descriptive to read this book.New Jersey.
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Summary: Very useful info
Review: The book carefully analyses a number of important attacking techniques. Where necessary, the author gives concrete variations to support his case. It's good to see how both attack and defence can be conducted.I have only the original translation -- one with Nunn's editing would be even better. I like the idea of one reviewer to check the variations on a computer like Fritz.
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Summary: REVS UP YOUR STYLE-ATTACK TO WIN
Review: THE CHAPTER ON THE CLASSIC BISHOP SACRIFICE HAS CANGED THE WAY I PLAY THE MIDDLE GAME
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Summary: An Intermediate's One Prized Possession
Review: There is nothing wrong in Vukovic--the Battle Captain-- schooling chess beginners and intermediates in "the art of attack." A novice focuses on attack because it is easier and one doesn't have to study for several decades the art of defense and that not every move is a forward move! This was a very gutsy read, but it carries only one huge flaw. Vukovic doesn't seem to "get" the notion that you have to "Divide and Rule." You can't go all "Bobby Fischer" with forced trades against modern gambits and come out positionally ahead. The art of attck is really to draw an opponents resources wide after the opening song and dance and then feign to pin and pick off piece by piece while looking to stengthen positionally or surprise checkmate with a quick combination blow. To sum things up--your tanks never roll in before the ground recon. An inspiring read, nonetheless, from a very well rehursed mind!
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Summary: Verbose, overbaked, overdone
Review: Theres too much attention spent in this book to a topic that isnt any more important than other positional consideration- "attack" is about one tenth of chess. A better book is Euwe's Middlegame Book 2 which covers all of Vukovich's material plus ten other topics. Vuko's book is too specific and you will never see the forest from the trees buried in hopeless details.
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Summary: Great!
Review: This book is a masterpiece. Redone in algebraic notation, everything from the font and the diagrams are supberb in this fine edition. Besides the Typeset and Format of publishing. This book provides the reader with a lot of insight on attacking the vile king. The books introduces focal points ( very usefull), ways of weakining the king, the bishop sac, open diagonals, and much more BUY THIS BOOOOOOOOOOOOOKKKKKK
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Summary: I knew positional play, but not how to take advantage of it
Review: This book is one of a kind! My positional play is strong, yet even though I know my pieces are stronger than my opponents I often cannot find a way to take advantage of it. This book opened my eyes to all the attacking themes found in chess. I just played one of my best games ever 2 days ago, and without this book the spectacular mating attack would have never happened. If you lack attacking skills in the middle game, this is the best book out there. Not for beginners, but great for intermediate players. One of the top 2 chess books I've read (out of MANY). The other being "Modern Chess Strategy" - another essential middle game book - based on the positional side of chess whereas this book is on the tactical side. They complement eachother very well.
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Summary: updated classic
Review: This book is the 6th one to be added to my chess library. I can't say whether it's a good book because it is too advanced for me. I've been playing chess very seriously for about a year and think I'd probably be rated about 1300-1500 if I competed.
Most of the chapters have a small amount of text offering general discussion and then proceed with about 4 or 5 complete games that contain good examples of the chapter's focus. I worked (yeah, that's the right word) through several of the chapters and more or less understood what the author was trying to convey. My abilities might have increased some, but only by a small amount compared to the number of hours that I spent on the book.
I'm not convinced that it's possible to generalize knowledge from this format, but I guess I can't really say. Chess seems to be a lot more about 1st-hand experience than about vicarious learning. This kind of book is definitely in the second category.
I think that players at about my skill level would be far better served with chess puzzle books. I bought a book called 303 Tactical Puzzles or something like that and saw an almost immediate gain in my effectiveness. After going through about 100 of the puzzles I began to recognize patterns and combinations dramatically better than before -- and this took about a week. I play most of my chess on Chessmaster 9000 in the rated games section and beat an opponent that was CM rated 1670 and absolutely slaughtered one rated about 1550. 1600 was the previous record for me, so I'd say that's a dramatic improvement. I could see the computer's 2 or 3 move tactical combinations from a mile away because of my improved pattern recognition. I spent about 3x that much time with Art of Attack in Chess and couldn't see much, if any improvement -- it's just too advanced for me to get much of anything out of it.
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