HOW TO CRUSH YOUR CHESS OPPONENTS (Simon Williams)
112
pages (248 mm by 172 mm).
£9.50/$14.95/€12,85
Simon Williams, one of Britain's most dynamic and aggressive
chess-players, has selected his favourite attacking games from the modern era,
and annotated them with an infectious zeal that will inspire and instruct. He
takes us inside the decision-making process, explaining how each stage in an
attacking concept is formed, and shows how top players spot the signs that
indicate it is time to stake everything on an all-out assault. We also get
insights into the role of intuition and calculation in both attack and defence.
The players featured in this entertaining collection
include: * Judit Polgar * Alexei Shirov * Veselin Topalov * Viswanathan Anand *
Vasily Ivanchuk * Peter Svidler * Alexander Grishchuk * Magnus Carlsen *
Simon Williams is an experienced international
grandmaster from England who has gained a reputation for playing uninhibited
attacking chess. He represented England in World and European Championships in
various age groups, and has been a regular in the British Championship since
his early teens, an event in which he was runner-up in 2004. This is his third
book for Gambit: see also Improve Your Attacking
Chess and Play the Classical
Dutch.
Download a pdf file with a
sample from the book.
"Beginners should buy this book for the lucid explanations
as to how to form an attack. Strong players should buy it just for pure
enjoyment, and for the fact that the diagrams are plentiful enough so as to
barely need a board and pieces." - Mark Donlan, Chess Horizons
"Altogether an inspiring book with fantastic attacking
games..." - Martin Rieger, www.freechess.info
"There are 30 well-annotated games that are the meat of the
book and they are all very entertaining games. ... The annotations to the games
elevate some underlying points to the surface, things that many of us fail to
realize or simply don't know. Along the way what is delivered is a sense of how
to play with the initiative or carry out a plan of attack, aspects that can
best be appreciated in the context of whole games. There are several comments
in the introduction or at the beginnings of chapters that are not part of the
annotations; these carried a lot of weight with me as they resonated with my
own thoughts." - Bill McGeary, www.chessville.com
"The annotations are relatively light, but they do focus
very much on what is happening in the actual game and avoid long digressions
into fantasy land. The emphasis is on the thought and decision-making processes
involved rather than the what might have been if something else had been
played. I enjoyed playing through the games and found the commentary extremely
helpful in understanding what was happening, a comment I do not always find
applicable in collections like this. Of course, the winner of each game was
usually assisted by his opponent's errors, but those errors have to be spotted
and exploited, and that basically is what the book is all about." - Alan
Sutton, En Passant
"This is a very nice selection of attacking games, with the
emphasis on fun rather than deep analysis and totally correct play." - Sean
Marsh, marshtowers.blogspot.com
"At slightly more than 100 pages, How to Crush Your Chess
Opponents is a slim volume, but somehow it doesn't seem to be. The pages
are fairly large and the thirty games are so packed with informative and
entertaining chess, this feels like a much heftier book. Enough diagrams are
included that you may not even need a board or computer screen to follow the
games. Gambit books have a history of top-notch production and first-rate
instruction. How to Crush Your Chess Opponents continues this fine
tradition." - Steve Goldberg, www.chesscafe.com
"A very enjoyable attacking book!" - John Elburg,
chessbooks.nl
"The author ... is well known for his attacking prowess and
ability to get games over with quickly, so he knows all about this form of
chess, and you get a revealing insight into his approach via his refreshing and
breezy notes. Very enjoyable." - John Saunders,
BCM
"Williams sure knows how to crush weaker opponents, as I've
experienced myself a few years ago! ... Williams has selected some very
attractive games (...mostly from the 21st century), and his notes are both
entertaining and instructive." - Peter Doggers,
chessvibes.com
"...an impressive collection of tactical slug-fests. Nearly
all of the games feature the kind of kitchen-sink attacks that end with
spectators crowded around the board. Surprisingly, however, the book has a lot
to say about defensive play as well. After all, a defensive inaccuracy is the
seed of every tactical firework. ... the collection is unified around a strong
central theme: walloping your opponent. ... that's a theme all chess players
find appealing." - Josh Specht, ChessVideos.TV |
