Attacking Strategies for Club Players

How to Create a Deadly Attack on the Enemy King

Michael Prusikin

• Publisher: New in Chess
• eBook ISBN:
  9789056919757
• Year: 2021

Attacking your opponent’s King is not just a short-cut to victory, it’s also one of the most enjoyable and gratifying experiences in chess. If you want to win more games you should become a better attacker. Studying typical attacking motifs and ideas easily brings dividends while you are having a good time.

Michael Prusikin presents the prerequisites and the rules for a King attack in a lucid and attractive manner. In 15 thematic chapters he teaches you how to assess the nature of the position, identify the appropriate offensive patterns, find the preliminary moves and conduct your attack in a clear and effective way.

Battering rams, pawn storms, deploying your pieces and striking the castled position, obstructive sacrifices, opening up the g-file by sacrificing a Knight on f5, Prusikin demonstrates the most important patterns of attack with lots of clear and well chosen examples.

Prusikin next tests your newly acquired insights and your attacking intuition with exercises covering all the themes and motifs. You will find that studying Attacking Strategies for Club Players is both rewarding and entertaining.

Table of contents

• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Explanation of symbols
• Foreword by Alexander Khalifman
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Prerequisites and rules for attacking the king
• Chapter 2: King in the centre
• Chapter 3: Obstructive sacrifices
• Chapter 4: Attacking the king without the queen
• Chapter 5: Pawn storm with opposite-side castling
• Chapter 6: Pawn storm with same-side castling
• Chapter 7: The Steinitz ‘battering ram’ – using the h-pawn against a fianchetto
• Chapter 8: The Alekhine ‘battering ram’ – using the g-pawn to destroy your opponent’s king protection
• Chapter 9: The nail in the coffin
• Chapter 10: Doubled g-pawns
• Chapter 11: Using pieces to attack the castled position
• Chapter 12: The Grand Prix Attack
• Chapter 13: The Chigorin ‘outrider’: the knight on f5
• Chapter 14: Long bishop on b2
• Chapter 15: Interference
• Chapter 16: Breakthrough on the strong point
• Chapter 17: Test your attacking skills
• Chapter 18: Solutions
• Index of names
• Bibliography