Kings Gone Wild!
In previous articles we discussed cases where the Kings helped your attack by just vacating a square for a Rook or moving out of a pin in order to push a pawn. So, mostly their role in the attack was very limited. But what about the famous Steinitz saying: "The King is a fighting piece - use it!" Today we'll look at games where the Kings were the leading actors in the chess play.
It is a well known fact that in an endgame you should use your King since it is a very powerful piece there, but what about a middlegame? Isn't it way too dangerous to bring your King into the heat of the battle? Yes, in most cases it is. But today will witness some crazy Kings that forgot about all the dangers and bravely moved forward with a board full of pieces!
The next game is the oldest and the craziest of all of them! I don't care if chess historians will prove one day that the game was never actually played and was just manufactured after an old analysis of Steinitz. I also don't care if computers refute White's crazy attack. When you watch Mission Impossible do you really care that everything there is just a fiction and none of the events shown can happen in real life? To me this game is the "Mission Impossible" of chess!
(Just like in most of my articles I give you a chance to test your attacking skills, so the games are given as a Quiz. Please remember that you can always replay the whole game from the first move if you click "Solution" and then "Move list".)
