The Complete Guide to Attacking Chess
What you'll learn
- Ability to appreciate what makes attacking chess effective and how to get great attacking positions for combinations to become possible
- Ability to appreciate the elements in positions relating to attacking potential
- Ability to see how certain openings can lead to attacking positions
- Appreciate the greatest attacking players in Chess history
- Ability to become a more concrete player by basing play around concrete mating combinations that end the chess war
- Ability to reverse engineer how beautiful mating combinations are made possible and see the mistakes made, and elements made use of
- Ability to appreciate some of the most iconic and instructive attacking chess games in history
- Ability to appreciate the attacking perks of various pawn structures
- Ability to appreciate that sometimes winning endgame simplification is the reward for attack
- Ability to appreciate Alexander Alekhine as a "sensei" for Kasparov and learn from Alekhine's attacking foundation examples
- Ability to appreciate Alexander Tolush as a "sensei" for Spassky and learn from Tolush's foundational examples
- Ability to appreciate the power of piece teamwork when the opponent's King is weakened for example controlling escape squares, supporting pieces, and checking
- Ability to appreciate saying "No!" to opponent's threats and need to auto-recapture and instead becoming more downside centric e.g. mating instead
- Ability to appreciate the accumulation of advantages model set out by the first World chess champion Steinitz and how this relates to groundwork for attacks
- Ability to appreciate the power of opening preparation when preparing for specific opponents
- Ability to appreciate grounded attacking chess as a kind of "delayed gratification" in terms of accumulating advantages first and then a justified attack
Requirements
- Know how the chess pieces move and ideally has interest in attacking chess
Description
Unlock your attacking prowess with 'The Complete Guide to Attacking Chess.' This course is designed not just to emphasize on checkmating patterns and combinations, but also to explore and illuminate the keys to successful attacking chess: the opening moves and middlegame strategies that give life to thrilling endgames and combinations. We dive deep into understanding the essence of attacks from legendary players who excelled at tactical and combinational play, including the likes of Alexander Alekhine, Rudolf Spielmann, and many more.
Throughout this course, you will have the opportunity to learn and practice real games, reinforcing your skills and building a robust understanding of the critical components of an attack. We will look at the 'ingredients' that make an attacking position possible, and the patterns that are frequently followed in successful assaults. We will go beyond the surface to grasp the magic of Alekhine’s combinations and appreciate the games of the masters of the attack.
This course serves as the perfect complement to other courses, such as "Art of Checkmate" and "Complete Guide to Chess Tactics," to enhance your understanding and performance in attacking chess. Here, our primary focus is on the art of creating attacking positions in the opening and middlegame phases.
We will study the games of chess immortals, identifying the keys to their attacking brilliance. We will also incorporate modern insights from Neural Network patterns, which have shown their ability to outmaneuver even the most accurate traditional engines. Featuring great attacking players like Paul Morphy, Adolf Anderssen, Wilhelm Steinitz, Emanuel Lasker, Alexander Alekhine, Boris Spassky, Bobby Fischer, Mikhail Tal, Garry Kasparov, and many more, this course brings together the best of attacking chess across generations.
This course is ever-evolving, reflecting my passion for attacking chess and continuous learning. I strive to provide updated content that improves clarity and enriches understanding. By the end of this course, you will gain significant insight into key attacking ingredients and patterns. These critical pieces of the puzzle will enable you to execute potent attacks right from the opening, leading to exhilarating middlegames and often, beautifully concluded combinations.
Who this course is for:
- Beginner to Intermediate level players
Instructor
- 4.6 Instructor Rating
- 2,444 Reviews
- 11,692 Students
- 30 Courses
Tryfon Gavriel, also known as "Kingscrusher" on the Internet. I am a FIDE Candidate Master (CM), and British Regional Chess Master, and run a popular Youtube channel for many years with over 114k+ Subs as of 2021 and a Silver Button Award.
I have done many shows on commercial chess servers. I am also the Webmaster of the correspondence-style chess server Chessworld which emphasizes game quality and research.
Playing experience
Over 35 years of playing activity both online and offline. Peak ICC blitz rating of 2625 (18-Jun-1999). Peak ICC 5 min auto-pairing of 2383 (29-Jun 2012). ECF Grading peak classical: 212 (A) ECF. Peak Rapid rating: 217 (C).
Lichess marathon top 10 finishers in 4 marathons so far. Top 50 finisher in 7 marathons so far. Top 100 finisher in 4 marathons so far. And top 500 in 1 marathon so far. Won quite a few tournaments at lichess - in fact giving me 3rd rank overall behind Lance5500 and papasi in a recent detailed statistical blog analysis titled "Lichess Marathon Statistics".
One of my earliest Over-the-board achievements in Chess was winning the Lloyds Under 18 national UK tournament in 1989. My trophy was awarded to me by Grandmaster and Ph.D. Mathematician Dr John Nunn.
Teaching experience
I have done teaching in Schools and also have done teaching online with several Lichess students on a regular basis, and have a very good coaching rating at lichess.
Other experiences
Played twice in the main British Chess championship. Many of my Youtube viewers claim big rating increases after watching my videos.
Best skills
I particularly love attacking chess, chess tactics, and combinations, and it is probably no accident that my "Complete Guide to Chess Tactics" has been a best-seller shortly after its release here at Udemy.
In general, I will try and give you greater enthusiasm for the game and in particular the dynamic attacking, aggressive tactical aspects of playing chess. My favorite heroes are mainly Attacking style tactical players: Paul Morphy, Alexander Alekhine, Mikhail Tal, Bobby Fischer, and Garry Kasparov. if you want to be a dynamic aggressive attacking style player, I may be able to encourage you and find you relevant resources on that path. The dynamic aggressive attacking players were particularly strong tactically and would often trade off pawn structure neatness and material to try and checkmate the opponent's kings. Checkmate does win the game :) They were masters of finishing combinations naturally as they sought to reduce the king's safety of the opponent in various ways including bringing the King out for often beautiful mating combinations.
Chess Openings
In terms of concrete openings to make use of potentially teaching here at Udemy through courses. I like Solid openings on such as the London System. I also like provocative openings like the Knight's Tango systems to encourage weaknesses from opponents. I am also at faster time controls especially, particularly fond of aggressive openings and gambits. For example, the Smith-Morra Gambit vs the Sicilian Defence, and other gambits can be used aggressively even with the black pieces such as the Albin Counter Gambit. Gambits vary of course in soundness and it is important to teach what "ticks many boxes" for use in various time controls. Also, I like surprising opponents with openings such as the Nimzo-Larsen attack, the King's Indian Attack, The London System, and Queen's Knight attack system 1. Nc3, all of which I have courses for here at Udemy.
In the search for the ideal courses to provide you, I like to search within myself for my core strengths and passions within the passion of Chess.
I truly hope you enjoy my courses and they improve your chess and your enjoyment of chess generally - and life generally :)