Play Attacking Chess

Explore Alekhine's attacking plan against White's center, maintain threats, leverage better development, and bring additional attackers to convert pressure, avoiding queen trades.

Paul Morphy’s opera game against the duke and count showcases an attacking masterpiece built on development and tactical ideas, from deflecting on f6 to a queen sacrifice ending in mate.

Master attacking chess tactics by studying motifs such as double attacks, pins, skewers, discovered attacks and checks, deflection, decoy, clearance, and blockade through guided diagrams and interactive exercises.

Steinitz exploits the uncastled king and open e-file, using rook and queen pressure, a pawn sacrifice, and decisive knight-rook maneuvers to force checkmate.

Study a 1912 Saint Petersburg match between Potemkin and Alekhine, where Alekhine attacks the king in the center with queen a5+ and a knight e3 tactic, leading to mate.

Analyze Fischer's attacking sequence against Geller, from Knight e5 and the pin to open the e-file with rook e1, exploiting Black's exposed king.

Analyze an opposite-side castling game to learn how pawn storms and open files drive rapid attacks, manage tempo, and balance king safety with piece activity.

Explore how Alekhine and Lasker navigate same-side castling, build a kingside attack through active pieces, and exploit center control to force a decisive win.

Explore a Keene–Miles Hastings game showcasing same-side castling, a rook lift to the g-file, and a Greek gift attack culminating in a queen and rook mating combo.

Explore how black exploits a cramped white position in the 1936 Kazan game Kosolapov–Nezhmetdinov, using king-side pressure, pawn storms, and decisive piece activity to force a win.

Learn how to attack a fianchettoed king side with h4, h5, and rook pressure. Explore a knight sacrifice and bishop trades that lead to a decisive tactic against h7 mate.

Watch a 1991 London game where Shirov as white leverages center control against a fianchettoed pawn formation, pushing the h-pawn and building a queen and rook battery on the h-file.

This lecture explains the Greek gift sacrifice: sacrifice the bishop on h7 to open lines for a queen–knight or rook lift attack that mates on h7 or h8.

Analyze the 1889 game between Lasker and Bauer, where the double bishop sacrifice begins with bishop takes h7 and culminates in a queen d7 double attack that wins material.

Apply attacking principles to launch powerful attacks, punish uncastled kings, and unleash pawn storms. Learn castling ideas against same-side attacks and how to counter fianchettoed pawn structures.