Art of Attack in Chess

Excellent book. Many good ideas and well explained. Also a lot of fun to play through the instructive games A real classic.

As you can quickly realize by reading the other reviews about this book, it is one of the best books ever written on attacking chess. Nevertheless, I disagree with the people that claims that this is the first instruction book you should get. I would recommend those players with a rating below 1600 to go through other more basic tactics books first. A good book for this is Chess Tactics for the Tournament Player by Alburt and Palatnik. Once you master the basic tactics the Art of Attack in Chess will put you through to the next level. You will also love this book if you are one of those players that was disappointed after trying to study Think Like a Grandmaster by Kotov and realized that it was way too complicated for you. Hope this helps!

The print in this book is very small, it is in single column format, and rather wordy, making it difficult to read, unless you have very good eye sight! I am sure that it is an excellent book, and very comprehensive, but it is not an easy introductory read!