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Art of Attack in Chess| Media: | Paperback | | Author: | Vladimir Vukovic | | Publisher: | Everyman Chess | | Release date: | 01 January, 1999 | | List price: | $24.95 |
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A fine book in its time |
I remember reading this many many years ago, before the arrival of databases or analysis engines. All credit, therefore, to the author, for this historical work, and a dog-eared copy is one of my favorite posessions. In modern terms there are of course many mistakes to be found with an electronic program, and a lot of modern ideas are absent, but it would be harsh to judge the author on that basis.
For a modern-day book on sacrifices I can highly recommend the LeMoir title, "How to become a Deadly Chess Tactician" which contains incredible detail on thematic sacrifices. |
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full of errrrors... but a good book anyway |
This book, like many 'classics' is full of errors. Run these games through Fritz (Chessbase) for example (a .CBF format of the games found in this book is available at the Ossimitz Chess page at the fortunecity website) and almost on every third page a variation of Vukovic's will be in error; some of the errors allow one side to escape with a draw instead of a forced win. GM John Nunn has done a good job with footnotes pointing out a lot of these mistakes
Another annoying thing is that supposedly outstanding (!) moves are not the best move (Fritz or any computer program will point this out in 'watch mode'). So if you are trying to guess the move, sometimes you will find yourself 'stumped' until you realize there is no 'best' move.
That said, I still like this book because it shows how to win in OTB play against humans using aggresive play, where sometimes a shock move is useful (GM Tal proved this holds).
I am a expert player. If you are a beginner some of the games here will 'shock' you since they seem to lose material, until the lines are played out.
All in all a useful book, I also like for tactics Averback's Tactics book (if you can find it) |
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Great Concept Covered |
| This is perhaps one of the best books that covers not only how to attack, but within these attacks covers some great tactics. I can highly recommend this for a stronger player. I don't give it 5 stars simply because it does contain a few errors in analysis. This is somewhat forgivable based on how well it is written and the wonderful material it covers. |
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