Contents

007 Foreword
009 Introduction

Part I: The King in the Center
013 Lesson One: Attacking the King in the Center
014 Principles for attacking the uncastled king
015 Sacrifice to open lines (Morphy - Amateur)
020 Punishment for losing time in the opening (Anderssen - Kieseritsky)
028 Exchanging to prevent castling (Steinitz - von Bardeleben)
034 Lack of harmony (Tchigorin - Salwe)
038 A practical decision (Gruenfeld - Spielmann)
046 Opening or middlegame? (Tolush - Botvinnik)
054 Unexpected sacrifice (Holmov - Keres)
060 Nowhere to hide (Fischer - Rubinetti)
065 Probing for weaknesses (Fischer - Dely)
068 Pursuit (Tatai - Karpov)
071 Suicide (Anand - Kasparov)

077 Lesson Two: When the King is Safe in the Center
078 Is castling necessary? (Kmoch-Alekhine)
081 Harmonious regrouping (Kotov - Keres)
086 Correctly evaluating the king in the center

087 Exercises for Part I

Part II: Attacks with Same-Side Castling
097 Lesson Three: Piece Attacks with Same-Side Castling
099 The stronger side must attack! (Steinitz - MacDonnell)
103 Piece attacks against weak pawn structure
103 Target on g6 (Spielmann - Honlinger)
107 Target on h6 (Capablanca - Levenfish)
109 Invading weak squares (Alatortsev - Boleslavsky)
113 (Smyslov - Stahlberg)
116 Lack of harmony (Kasparov - Marjanovic)
118 (Kasparov - Pribyl)
119 Weak diagonal (Alekhine - Alexander)
125 Unprepared attack (Capablanca - Becker)
127 Piece attacks against strong pawn structure
128 Combination to increase activity (Euwe - Keres)
132 Exchanging to increase activity (Tal - Najdorf)
136 Sacrifice to divert defenders (Alekhine - Sterk)
138 The importance of greater activity in piece attacks
139 Open and closed positions
139 Counterattack
141 Successful counterattack against overextended attacker (Geller - Euwe)

145 Lesson Four: Pawn Attacks with Same-Side Castling
146 Attacking with one pawn
146 Creating a weakness (Reti-Alekhine)
152 Opening a file (Lasker - Capablanca)
156 Activating every piece (Botvinnik - Vidmar)
158 Advancing prematurely (Brinkman - Bogolyubov)
161 Wing thrust vs. central counterplay (Unzicker - Reshevsky)
165 Attacking with multiple pawns
166 Space advantage (Gereban - Smyslov)
172 Slow buildup (Reti - Carls)
175 Opening files (Alekhine - Astalosh)
179 Queenside counterplay (Bisguier - Petrosian)
184 Transition to the endgame (Riumin - Kan)
187 Exercises for Part II

Part III: Attacks with Opposite-Side Castling
197 Lesson Five: Attacks with Opposite-Side Castling
198 Superior mobility and coordination (Bird - Morphy)
200 No counterplay (Capablanca - Janowsky)
204 Open lines at any cost (Tchigorin - Pillsbury)
209 (Rubinstein - Teichmann)
212 Attacking the fianchetto (Spassky - Evans)
216 (Boleslavsky - Geller)
223 Invasion on the a-file (Gereban - Geller)
229 Extending a diagonal (Razuvayev - Kapengut)
233 Kingside majority (Alekhine - Marshall)
236 Exercises for Part III

245 Conclusion
248 Index of Games