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by Colin Crouch

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Great Attackers Colin Crouch EVERYMAN CHESS ww. verymanchess. Tal and Kasparov were much more aggressive sacrificers, but aggression in chess means the taking of further risks. Tal was the greatest exponent of piece sacrifices in chess, finding a way of opening up incalculable games from seemingly the quietest positions. Chess Secrets: Great Attackers book on attacking games, there is a reason: to introduce, briefly, another classic Kasparov brilliancy from his young years! See the supplementary game Kasparov-Panchenko, Daugavpils 1978 (Game . ). Kasparov had brushed up his opening between 1975 and 1978.

Everyone has their own favourites, and in Chess Secrets: Great Attackers, Colin Crouch chooses three of his own: Garry Kasparov, Mikhail Tal and Leonid Stein. World Champions Kasparov and Tal need no introduction, while Stein was a highly creative and intuitive player with the ability to destroy the world's best players with his vicious attacks

Chess Secrets is a new series of books which uncover the mysteries of the most important aspects of chess study: strategy .

Chess Secrets is a new series of books which uncover the mysteries of the most important aspects of chess study: strategy, attacking play, opening play and gambits, classical play, endgames and preparation. In each book the author chooses and deeply studies a number of great players from chess history who have excelled in a particular field of the game and who have genuinely influenced their descendants.

Leonid Stein is also featured in Chess Secrets: Great Attackers: Learn from Kasparov, Tal and Stein by Colin Crouch. and besides stein failed to qualify for 1968 candidates match when this law had been abolished.

Paperback, 272 pages. Published April 1st 2009 by Everyman Chess (first published January 1st 2009). Chess Secrets: Great Attackers: Learn from Kasparov, Tal and Stein. 1857445791 (ISBN13: 9781857445794).

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Items related to Chess Secrets: Great Attackers: Learn From Kasparov,. Crouch, Colin Chess Secrets: Great Attackers: Learn From Kasparov, Tal And Stein (Everyman Chess). ISBN 13: 9781857445794. World Champions Kasparov and Tal need no introduction, while Stein was a highly creative and intuitive player with the ability to destroy the world's best players with his vicious attacks. Chess Secrets is a new series of books which uncover the mysteries of the most important aspects of chess study: strategy, attacking play, opening play and gambits, classical play, endgames and preparation.

His new work, "Chess Secrets: Great Attackers," recently published by Everyman Chess, is a marvelous tribute to the world champions Mikhail Tal and Garry Kasparov, an. .

Seller:(5,221)100%, Location:Needham Heights, Massachusetts, Ships to: Worldwide, Item:310131686965 Chess Secrets: Great Attackers: Learn from Kasparov, Tal and Stein By Colin Crouch The chess world has witnessed a great number of wonderfully gifted attacking players, geniuses who have dazzled the chess public with their brilliant masterpieces. His new work, "Chess Secrets: Great Attackers," recently published by Everyman Chess, is a marvelous tribute to the world champions Mikhail Tal and Garry Kasparov, and the three-time Soviet champion Leonid Stein.

Colin Crouch studies his favorite attacking players, and highlights all the important themes of one of the most crucial elements of the game.

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This book follows Neil McDonald's Giants of Strategy in the Chess Secrets series. Subtitled "Learn from Kasparov, Tal, and Stein," the book focuses on three attacking players with very different styles of attack, focusing on games from the 1970's to develop a broader understanding of the attack.

Two things make this book worthwhile. First, Crouch examines 31 attacking games to develop his idea that there are three different ideas of how to play for the attack, based on the amount of speculation the player prefers. He likens this to playing poker. For example, he demonstrates that Tal was almost eager to sacrifice pieces on pure speculation. He analyzes a win against Spassky where the latter ducks a sacrifice that was, in fact, losing -- hardly a novel win in Tal's career! Tal was always very ready to enter complicated attacks in which neither he nor his opponent could tell whether it was a bluff. By contrast, he shows that early in his career, Kasparov was just as committed to the attack as Tal, but focused instead on sacrificing pawns for clear piece mobility. Rarely did Kasparov invest a piece unless he could essentially calculate his way to a win. And Stein's style was even more conservative -- if this can be said of any attacking player. Stein's method was to develop a superior position and then break it wide open, usually without a sacrifice at all. All three players were known as ferocious attackers, but of three very different kinds, based on their willingness to gamble.

Second, this book complements McDonald's book. McDonald's focus on strategy develops themes that mostly involve play with pawns and rooks. Indeed, play with pawns and rooks seems to exemplify strategic and positional play. By contrast, Crouch's book naturally focuses on active minor piece play complemented by queen activity. Between the two of them, they give the student an excellent overview of the middlegame.

Colin Crouch's last book was on the art of defense, focusing on games by Lasker and Petrosian, and is without doubt the best book ever written on defense. While not up to the previous standard (perhaps because attack has received more attention from other writers), "Great Attackers" is a worthwhile book to study.

For further study and mastery of the attack, the following are also excellent.
1) Mihail Marin's Secrets of Attacking Chess, which focuses on the trade-offs between material and development, and draws out a lot of original ideas.
2) Jacob Aagaard's Attacking Manual, which develops several common attacking themes that together would suffice to strengthen the attacking play of any amateur; this is the most comprehensive single-volume work on the attack since Vukovic.
3) Dunnington's Understanding the Sacrifice, which, in addition to covering various types of sacrifice, offers the best overview yet of the use of color complexes in the attack.

Bodwyn

The author includes some great attacking games but his analysis is a little lengthy for my taste. This book is great for people who like to read with the chess board in front of them... wouldn't take it on an airplane and expect to get through some of the variations without being able to move the pieces around though...

Katishi

If you are a devotee of the chess sacrifice, then this account of the exploits of Tal, Stein and Kasparov will entertain and inform you !

Crouch uses a variety of analyses : his own, the sacrificer's, the tournament recordist, and the chess computer Fritz.

He has chosen for each artist one of their most prolific sacrificial periods : Kasparov (75-82),Tal (78-79), Stein (72-73).

The overall impression one gets is that he concludes for the most part Stein's sacrifices are “sound”- in other words after the sacrifice Stein's opponent even with best play would lose.

In the case of Tal and Kasparov, the feeling is that in several instances after their sacrifice with best play the opponent should at least be able to draw,or maybe even on occasions, win. Thus the sacrifice is “speculative”.

The purists would say that an unsound sacrifice should not be acccorded the same attention as an unsound one- however the point is the sacrificee has only 3 minutes on average per move, even less in a time scramble,and in the complicated positions which these sacrifices generate, the options are often so complicated they defy both human and even computational reasoning and clarity. The sacrificer, especially Tal,simply “feels” there is enough in then position to justify the sacrifice, and so goes ahead with it. And just as the proof of the pudding is in the eating, the proof of the sacrifice from these practitioners is that the game is usually won !

The only slight niggle I would have is that Tal's golden sacrificial period (early 50s to his becoming World Champion in 1960) is not included. However this period is well covered by others such as P.H. Clarke and J.Hajtun.

Overall then the text is clear and with interesting observations, and the diagrams are numerous, adding to one's enjoyment of a fascinating topic – Great Attackers is therefore highly recommended.

anonymous

A good book.

However, this book would be better if revised and brightened up with Judit Polgar, the modern Morphy. Development and effortless-looking attacks filled with continuous pressure against super GMs and ordinary GMs. Historically, Judit is very important to chess. She had a Fischer-level of popularity on chess playing girls and women of at least 2 generations. Every GM during her peak was on edge - including Shirov. Many recent books book and videos use analogies with Mozevich or Topolov to describe great attackers, and mysteriously fail to make their case by referencing Judit Polgar - knowing full well she'll beat most GMs, as Ivanchuk and Topolov felt in Mexico. Like Larsen and Petrosian stacked-up against Fischer, no one was thinking a new mother after a hiatus would beat two super GMs consecutively without a loss or draw - all wins - and using the King Bishop's Gambit!

Round out this Chess Secrets format with a 5th attacker. Several choices include the inventive and refreshing Nigel Short (a modern Nimzovitch), Genrikh Chepukaitis (blitz attacks from clear blue skies), Hikaru Nakamura, or Rashid Nezhmetdinov (Master with Grandmaster-beating attacks), Shirov, Anand (I can't recall if Anand is already in another book of this series), or Paul Keres.

This could be the brightest book of the Chess Secrets series by including varied approaches from extraordinarily-gifted attackers. Add Judit and one other attacker.

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