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Summary: Excellent, very helpful book.
Review: This book reminds you that the ultimate focus of the game is to attack the opponents king, and helps you to understand how that can come about in the middle game.Previously once getting past the opening, it was hard for me to come up with appropriate plans to finish the game up, mostly trying to get small advantages and hopefully trade off pieces to have a superior endgame. This book really helped me understand the tactics and methods associated with starting and carrying out an attack. The chapters on sacrifices and focal points taught me to think about how to weaken a position - after all, giving all your pieces away is fine if the game is then going to be over, a simple concept, but taking that risk is considered a lot less than it should be, at least in beginner-intermediate chess which is where I'm at right now. The chapters on attacking with pawns were especially useful as well. This is one of the best books I've studied on chess, and in my opinion, it's a must for everyone.
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Summary: Good concepts for advanced players for lower players
Review: This book was way beyond me. However, in spite of this I was able to grasp some important ideas. The advertizing doesn't indicuate that is is for Advanced players, which is my problem with this book. If you are a beginning or intermediate player this book isn't for you. If you are advanced it looks really good!
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Summary: Outstanding + challenging
Review: This book will strenghten your play bigtime. I pretty much self-taught myself how to play chess at about 10, and have always been a more or less strong player. This book has opened my eyes as to when to attack/defend/manipulate when certain positions present themselves. I had to learn the notation as i read, so if your not familar with it, it will take some time (took me like 30 minutes a page). But if you have the patience to work your way through this book, the increase in your play/rating/whateveryouwanttocallit will surprise you! BUY!
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Summary: Full of Errors; but a good book anyway
Review: This book, like many 'classics' is full of errors. Run these games through Fritz (Chessbase) for example (a .CBF format of the games found in this book is available at the Ossimitz Chess page at the fortunecity website) and almost on every third page a variation of Vukovic's will be in error; some of the errors allow one side to escape with a draw instead of a forced win. GM John Nunn has done a good job with footnotes pointing out a lot of these mistakes Another annoying thing is that supposedly outstanding (!) moves are not the best move (Fritz or any computer program will point this out in 'watch mode'). So if you are trying to guess the move, sometimes you will find yourself 'stumped' until you realize there is no 'best' move. That said, I still like this book because it shows how to win in OTB play against humans using aggresive play, where sometimes a shock move is useful (GM Tal proved this holds). I am a expert player. If you are a beginner some of the games here will 'shock' you since they seem to lose material, until the lines are played out. All in all a useful book, I also like for tactics Averback's Tactics book (if you can find it)
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Summary: A REALLY VALUABLE WORK FOR EVERY CHESS PLAYER
Review: This is a "must have" book for every chess player who needs to master the attack in chess. I have to say that i always had a defficiencies in this topic, and from the start of this book i found things that made me feel that until now, i wasn't a complete player. I'm sure that anyone who reads this material will vastly improve in his or her attack properties and probably will change his or her way of general playing. In chess, the checkmate is the objective, so, if somebody not just read, but study this wonderful book, wiil be transformed in a really agressive player, capable of destroy any defense to beat any opponent. A last comment is that, unlike other chess books, this one brings REAL POSITIONS on it's diagrams, positions wich really could be found or obtainable on anyone's games!!!. I assure to anybody that this masterpiece wiil leave you 100% satisfied!! ....enjoy!
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Summary: a neccesity for the club player
Review: This is an advanced book, yes, but you can still get something out of it even if you don't understand "positional" play or are a little weak in tactics. In fact many of the priciples here apply to any tactical combination, it's just that here the focus is on attacking the king. The main gap you will notice if you are a weaker player are the attacks that don't lead to mate(if your opponet's not dumb), and don't win any material (except maybe a pawn), and though I can't remeber any cases of this, maybe even loses on material. If you are playing a game you will never see this kind of attack unless you understand enough to know that afterwards, your position is better.
Immediately after having read this book, I am sure I can at least attribute 100 point rise to it.
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Summary: The single best book on attacking chess ever written!
Review: Vukovic's work is not intended for the new player. A sound understanding of tactics and positional play is strongly recommended for the reader to be able to access the ideas he espouses. With that said, this book is the 'chess bible of attacking principles'! It will show you the key principles of attack, common and sophisticated patterns present in a successful attack, and it will enable you to develope and take advantage of these attacking positions in your own games. This is a book for serious studying, but the benefits that the average club player will receive from working through it are well worth the effort. No other book on attacking chess that I have read even comes close to being as good as this work. Nunn's conversion to algebaic notation is also a welcome relief as well. I suspect that this book is one of the 10 most instructive books on chess ever written!
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Summary: The source of my success
Review: well im a 13yr old with a passion for chess.. i started playing and reading yasser sierawans books to understand the basics of the royal game. also i got into a opening fever and not to the point of chess which is strategy, tactics and etc, instead of the memorization of moves, without knowing the concept of why they were made.when i opened this book i fell in love with it as it lead me to victorys, defeating 2 NM's at blitz tournaments, all with the normal basics of attacking the king, which are all explained in this book. I recomend it to anyone, its defenitly a classic!. Good Luck!
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Summary: This book is excellent for the aspiring Chess player.
Review: When I first started playing Chess seriously, I inquired about the best books on the market on Chess. The respond I got from a host of master level chess players was The Art of Attack in Chess. Since reading this book's first three chapters alone I have gain over 400 points in my tournament play. I would recomend this book to anyone interested in improving their chess strength to expert level and beyond. I have sold, or exchanged many chess books from my chess library, however this one will remain in my collection forever. I give it a 5 star rating, and put it among the best Chess literature classics.
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