Grooten: Attacking chess for club players

Develop your killer instinct!

Every chess player loves to attack the enemy king. The goal is clear, the thinking is concrete, creativity flows and a quick victory is just around the corner. There are few things in life that are better than successfully completing a dashing attack on the opponent's king!

But how good are you at attacking? Have you ever analyzed your performance in detail? Have you discovered any miscalculations, missed opportunities or wasted efforts?

After the great success of his classic Chess Strategy for Club Players, Herman Grooten has now written an equally accessible follow-up volume on attacking chess. He tells you how to take advantage of opportunities, exploit weaknesses, bring your strength to the front and strike at the right moment.

Grooten focuses on training the mental skills most important to this process: visualizing, structuring, anticipating, calculating and remembering. This is not just another collection of useful and thematic moves and motifs, but a comprehensive and highly structured course of attack techniques. He uses fantastic new examples, clear explanations and many instructive tasks.

International Master Herman Grooten is a chess trainer with almost 40 years of experience. Several of his students have become grandmasters. His award-winning predecessor, Chess Strategy for Club Players, was a worldwide bestseller.

409 pages, paperback, 2017