On the Attack: The Art of Attacking Chess According to the Modern Masters (Paperback) - Common

by Jan Timman

A world famous grandmaster explains the modern style of attacking chess to amateur chess players. Jan Timman teaches how to build up an advantage in the game and how to convert that advantage into an aggressive strategy and into great attacking moves. He has selected the most instructive attacking games of great players like Kasparov, Topalov, Karpov, Shirov, and Judit Polgar in order to explain to amateur chess players the basic ideas of modern attacks and their successful execution.

Genres: Chess

240 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2006

Reviews

[Jim · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a good book of modern attacking games. Perhaps a little too advanced for me. I need to play through more . I think this is for 1500+ ? maybe higher.

[Robert · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book covers three games from the next players: Karpov, Timman, Kasparov, Short, Sokolov, Ivanchuk (two wins with black!), Anand, Shirov (another player with two wins as black!), Topalov, Polgar and Volokitin.
Timman, as the author, has put himself on this list, which makes sense having in mind how aggressively he can play. However, I think the book would be even better if he had excluded his games and put one more game from every other attacker.