Aagaard: Attacking Manual 2 improvers Der Autor lässt den Leser

Der Autor lässt den Leser nicht nur an seinen Partien teilhaben

David Smerdon shows how you can use tricks from psychology to marshal hidden resources and exploit your opponent's biases

The middlegame is dissected and the critical decisions subjected to keen scrutiny – we are invited inside Stohl's laboratory to join him in the quest for the truth

The tasks vary in difficulty

CHESS magazine

Aagaard: Attacking Manual 2 improvers Der Autor lässt den LeserThe old masters dealt only with the static features of positional rules. But, these are insufficient to explain the basics of chess. The problem is that chess, like other sciences, has undergone a dynamic revolution, but chess literature does not yet reflect this. In this major work Aagaard explains the rules of attack (the exploitation of a dynamic advantage), balanced between understandable examples, and deep analysis. Five years in the making, this