The Complete Guide to Attacking Chess

Master the Art of Attacking Chess: Learn Aggressive Strategies, Middlegame Tactics, Openings and Pattern Recognition

Created by: Tryfon Gavriel
FIDE Chess Candidate Master

What Will I Learn?

• Ability to appreciate what makes attacking chess effective and how to get great attacking positions for combinations to become possible
• Ability to appreciate the elements in positions relating to attacking potential
• Ability to see how certain openings can lead to attacking positions
• Appreciate the greatest attacking players in Chess history
• Ability to become a more concrete player by basing play around concrete mating combinations that end the chess war
• Ability to reverse engineer how beautiful mating combinations are made possible and see the mistakes made, and elements made use of
• Ability to appreciate some of the most iconic and instructive attacking chess games in history
• Ability to appreciate the attacking perks of various pawn structures
• Ability to appreciate that sometimes winning endgame simplification is the reward for attack
• Ability to appreciate Alexander Alekhine as a "sensei" for Kasparov and learn from Alekhine's attacking foundation examples
• Ability to appreciate Alexander Tolush as a "sensei" for Spassky and learn from Tolush's foundational examples
• Ability to appreciate the power of piece teamwork when the opponent's King is weakened for example controlling escape squares, supporting pieces, and checking
• Ability to appreciate saying "No!" to opponent's threats and need to auto-recapture and instead becoming more downside centric e.g. mating instead
• Ability to appreciate the accumulation of advantages model set out by the first World chess champion Steinitz and how this relates to groundwork for attacks
• Ability to appreciate the power of opening preparation when preparing for specific opponents
• Ability to appreciate grounded attacking chess as a kind of "delayed gratification" in terms of accumulating advantages first and then a justified attack

Requirements

• Know how the chess pieces move and ideally has interest in attacking chess

Target audience

• Beginner to Intermediate level players