The Art of Attack in Chess

Vladimir Vukovic

• Publisher: Popular Chess
• eBook ISBN:
  9781857447712
• Year: 1999

One of the finest chess books ever written, now in the revised algebraic edition. The author expounds both the basic principles and the most complex forms of attack on the king.

Table of contents

• Preface by John Nunn
• Introduction
• 1. The attack against the uncastled king
• 2. The attack on the king that has lost the right to castle
• 3. On castling and attacking the castled position in general
• 4. Mating Patterns
• 5. Focal-Points
• 6. The classic bishop sacrifice
• 7. Ranks, files and diagonals in the attack on the castled king
• 8. Pieces and pawns in the attack on the castled king
• 9. The attack on the fianchettoed and queenside castling positions
• 10. Defending against the attack on the castled king
• 11. The phases of the attack on the castled king
• 12. The attack on the king as an integral part of the game
• Index
• diagram
• diagrams
• here
• Boden’s Mate
• Burn’s move
• Alekhine – Asgeirsson Reykjavik Simultaneous Display, 1931
• Alekhine – Asztalos Kecskemet, 1927
• Alekhine – Botvinnik Nottingham, 1936
• Alekhine – Drewitt Portsmouth, 1923
• Alekhine – Kmoch San Remo, 1930
• Alekhine-E. Cohn, Stockholm 1912
• Alekhine-Feldt, blindfold simultaneous display, Tarnopol 1916
• Alekhine-Gilg, Semmering 1926
• Alexander-Pachman, Hilversum 1947
• Alexander-Szabo. Hilversum 1947
• Averbakh-Kotov, Zurich Ct 1953
• Bernstein-Capablanca, Exhibition Game, Moscow 1914
• Bernstein-Kotov. Groningen 1946
• Boden-Bird, London 1869
• Bogoljubow-Przepiorka. Pistyan 1922
• Bogoljubow-Réti, Carlsbad 1923
• Boleslavsky-Ufimtsev, Semi-finals USSR Championship, Omsk 1944
• Botvinnik-Chekhover, Moscow 1935
• Burn-E. Cohn, Breslau 1912
• Byrne D-Fischer, New York Rosenwald 1957
• Capablanca – Kan Moscow, 1935
• Capablanca - Molina Carranza Buenos Aires, 1911
• Capablanca – Ragozin Moscow, 1935