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.
Features
Features
- The attack against the uncastle king
- The attack on the king that has lost the right to castle
- On castling and attacking the castled position in general
- Mating patterns
- Focal points
- The classic bishop sacrifice
- Ranks, files, and diagonals in the attack on the castled king
- Pieces and pawns in the attack on the castled king
- The attack on the fianchettoed and queenside castling positions
- Defending against the attack on the castled king
- The phases of the attack on the castled king
- The attack on the king as an integral part of the game
- 352 Pages
- Paperback
- Publisher: Everyman
- Published: 1999
- Notation: Figurine Notation