Hi there.
In this introduction lecture, I want to talk about some sources and positive influences for attacking
chess.
So tactics and combinations are important to be able to master.
It's good to be very good tactically and combination in combination play because precision is often
needed as part of attacking chess.
Sometimes you will be sacrificing pieces and you need to find them the precise accommodate compensatory
follow ups to finish off the opponents.
So that's going to be a really positive influence on your attacking chess to be able to crown your efforts
and to be able to make use of sacrifices to break through the defensive barriers, you might need to
use sacrifices to eliminate defenders, distract them, the flak, them, etc..
So tactics and combinations and sacrificial play will lead to situations where it's really important
to be able to play accurately to exploit those time sensitive situations, because otherwise the opponent
could rearrange and defend and beat off your attack.
The ingredients of this course, if you master the ingredients with the examples, to some extent it
will help.
Evaluate the attacking elements of positions you'll get from your openings, and that should be a super
positive influence.
So this course basically should be a super positive influence for you attacking chess.
If you really get to master the ingredients, certain pawn structures in chess and which is highlighted
in this course, they do lend themselves for attack.
Sometimes they make the pieces more active.
So isolated queen pawn situations like certain openings lend themselves for attack.
They actually literally have attack in their name, but sometimes openings with the fence in the name
can be attacking like the King's Into the Fence is actually an attacking opening.
It was used by Garry Kasparov and Bobby Fischer was great.
In fact, the Sicilian Knight offers a great counterattacking opening in general.
It hasn't got the word attacking anywhere.
It's Sicilian night off, named after Mikhail Najdorf, who was a great attacking player, by the way,
in his own right, a great player in his own right.
So sometimes the opening names are misleading.
So you need to kind of judge the attacking potential of each opening on its own merit through knowledge
of that particular opening.
Quite often gambits, especially, you know, the sound of gambits they do offer attacking opportunities.
There are literally some openings with attack in their name, and they are actually attack systems like
the king's engine attack can lead to great attacks.
And Bobby Fischer was demonstrated that Nimzowitsch lost in attack.
I've got a course on that that can lead to great attacking potential from the thing.
And so bishops when you play one be free or so the king's engine attack that's names of those could
start with one be free the king's injured attack is more of a formation where you're playing E4 D3 92.
This formation generally and you get an attack because it's actually even if it looks kind of more positional,
you're trying to reinforce sometimes E5 control as a basis for attack later.
So sometimes, yes, literally openings with attacking them or offering opportunities for attack, but
it can be completely misleading.
So yes, check our openings and and see how they go with you.
So, okay, forcing moves are often important, especially when material down because you don't want
to give time to the opponent to rearrange, regroup and defend.
So it's ideal if attacks are fast and furious based on tempo gaining.
Quite often attacks are based on that and also making use of all of your forces as a team.
So it's not just the queen by herself against this army of defenders.
You usually it's ideal to have more attackers than defenders in the opponent's area of the king.
So anyway, this is just some general points.
Just to bear in mind, sacrifices are often a component of attacking chess because sacrificing often
gets rid of defenders, lowers them away to flanks, decoys defenders.
So Sacrifices is part of attacking chess.
Quite often it's an essential ingredient and you'll see that in the examples.
So even if I haven't mentioned a certain section on sacrifices or having attacks play in a fast and
furious manner with tempo gaining, those are essential kind of positive influences.
On the nature of attacking games.
If they can run with tempo, if they can run with team efforts, if they can make him make use of sacrifices
to break the opponent's defenses down, to weaken the opponent's king, and quite often we're trading
off zero or pawn structure for king safety implications.
So pawn structure, so certain pawn structures are more dynamic.
They give potential for the pieces to kind of be liberated or sacrificed in some cases.
And it's the piece pressure which often results in specific tactical combinations to finish off the
opponent's king.
So these are just general pointers.
What to look out for in the example games of this course, that these are factors which influence things.
But a lot of the openings of say, an example and they're not gambits, they're sometimes not gambits,
they're not worth attacking the name.
So these are pointers, but look at each example on its own merits as well and see what ingredients
stands out to you.
You might want to make your own notes for ingredients, kind of tags of each particular example as you
go through the course.
Okay.
These are just general things to think about here.
Okay.
That's very much.