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The chess world has witnessed a great number of wonderfully gifted attacking players, geniuses who have dazzled the chess public with their brilliant masterpieces. 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.
Crouch examines phases of these players' careers, compares their differing approaches and styles, and highlights key attacking themes including the idea of controlled risk - in some sacrificial attacks even the greatest players can't always see everything to the end. A study of this book will help you to enhance your skills in one of the most crucial elements of the game.
An entertaining and instructive guide to attacking chess
Learn from the greats of the game
Discover how famous chess minds work
Chess Secretsis a new series of books which uncover the mysteries of the most important aspects of chess strategy, attack, classical play, opening 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 undeniably influenced those who have followed.
Chess Secrets Great Attackers Learn from Kasparov Tal and Stein edition by Colin Crouch Humor Entertainment eBooks
One of the questions any potential reader might ask before buying an instructive manual on the subject of chess is: "what strength of player is this book aimed at?" For a reviewer this is a sensitive and subjective issue and perhaps the wise decision would be to avoid posing it. However, perhaps this is best answered by first pointing out that this is a very detailed work dealing with complicated games played by three top grand masters. Most of the games are extensively annotated and analysed: one Kasparov encounter is dealt with in no less than twelve pages. This sounds daunting but most of this is taken up with Crouch's thoroughly readable prose explaining what is going on. There are analytical digressions which often include games played by other masters along with complete supplementary games which high light a particular feature: opening, tactical or strategical ideas.Crouch first introduces the three principal protagonist setting the development of their careers against the chess scene of the day. He follows this with an insightful comparison of how each player approached the nature of attack with regard to tactical and positional decisions. These observations are particularly interesting as they take account of stylistic considerations that are unique to each player and determine his appraisal of a position and decision making during the game.
The meat of the book is contained in four chapters from page 14 to 195 which begin with Kasparov's early years and take in the years 1975/78; Stein: 72/73; Tal: 78/79 and return to the former for the years 78/82. All notation is algebraic with the main text in bold; diagrams are liberally placed throughout, an average of two or three per page, and the layout is uncluttered and easy to navigate. EVERYMAN publishing have done a great job: my paperback edition (used) seems durable and should last.They have also adhered to the convention of including an index of players, openings and postscript at rear of book. Always an important consideration for serious chess players, I feel.
To return to the opening question as to who might derive the most from a book such as this, I would say any strong intermediate player, say 1900 Elo upwards, that are prepared to put in the time and study the minutiae of the material contained herein. The goal of every player wishing to improve must be to deepen one's understanding and perception of the
royal game and this book, I feel, would surely achieve this given the right application. Of course, less accomplished players could easily enjoy and benefit from simply going through the games provided as Colin Crouch does an excellent job of presenting what can be quite demanding material in an entertaining and instructive way.
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Chess Secrets Great Attackers Learn from Kasparov Tal and Stein edition by Colin Crouch Humor Entertainment eBooks Reviews
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...
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.
One of the questions any potential reader might ask before buying an instructive manual on the subject of chess is "what strength of player is this book aimed at?" For a reviewer this is a sensitive and subjective issue and perhaps the wise decision would be to avoid posing it. However, perhaps this is best answered by first pointing out that this is a very detailed work dealing with complicated games played by three top grand masters. Most of the games are extensively annotated and analysed one Kasparov encounter is dealt with in no less than twelve pages. This sounds daunting but most of this is taken up with Crouch's thoroughly readable prose explaining what is going on. There are analytical digressions which often include games played by other masters along with complete supplementary games which high light a particular feature opening, tactical or strategical ideas.
Crouch first introduces the three principal protagonist setting the development of their careers against the chess scene of the day. He follows this with an insightful comparison of how each player approached the nature of attack with regard to tactical and positional decisions. These observations are particularly interesting as they take account of stylistic considerations that are unique to each player and determine his appraisal of a position and decision making during the game.
The meat of the book is contained in four chapters from page 14 to 195 which begin with Kasparov's early years and take in the years 1975/78; Stein 72/73; Tal 78/79 and return to the former for the years 78/82. All notation is algebraic with the main text in bold; diagrams are liberally placed throughout, an average of two or three per page, and the layout is uncluttered and easy to navigate. EVERYMAN publishing have done a great job my paperback edition (used) seems durable and should last.They have also adhered to the convention of including an index of players, openings and postscript at rear of book. Always an important consideration for serious chess players, I feel.
To return to the opening question as to who might derive the most from a book such as this, I would say any strong intermediate player, say 1900 Elo upwards, that are prepared to put in the time and study the minutiae of the material contained herein. The goal of every player wishing to improve must be to deepen one's understanding and perception of the
royal game and this book, I feel, would surely achieve this given the right application. Of course, less accomplished players could easily enjoy and benefit from simply going through the games provided as Colin Crouch does an excellent job of presenting what can be quite demanding material in an entertaining and instructive way.
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