Advanced attacking books

I would assume that if Scribd were doing something illegal, then the owners of any material protected by copyright would by now have exercised their legal recourse to stop the website from making such material available without permission.  Since this has apparently not happened, we can assume that the site is not doing anything illegal.  In any case I have had no problems using the site whatsoever.

I'm assuming users upload the documents hosted on Scribd, which means the site acts like any other media sharing site (YouTube, etc.); users upload whatever they want (supposed to upload original content, but upload plenty of copyrighted content), copyright owners have to flag copyright-infringing uploads. Scribd has over 60 million documents; considering how niche the chess book market is, I highly doubt there is much copyright enforcement going on there. I did a few quick google searches, seems like they have been sued many times etc. and the site operates in a highly grey/just barely legal zone. Legally speaking, you're probably ok as a consumer (uploaders would be at higher risk), but you never know if you some file you download gets traced back to you some day. Ethically speaking, its pretty easy to see that accessing any copyrighted material on there is "stealing"; the authors/owners of the material are not getting paid anything, and I doubt they consent to having their material uploaded/available to the public. I'm not the morality police, but I thought I should point this out because the $10 subscription fee probably leads people to think the site is on the level; we should also be supporting chess book publishing in general, as it is already a pretty small market.

The morality police can worry about it.  I won't.

Back to Alpha Zero and the book "Game Changer" by Sadler & Regan.  Upon an admittedly cursory perusal of the book so far, I'm beginning to lean toward the conclusion that this may be the most important chess book written to date (arguably, at least since Nimzowitsch's My System).  Not because of the authors' genius or their own insights into the game (the book is not about that), but because of what Alpha Zero has so far taught us about the game of chess.  There can be no doubt that AZ is, and will be the impetus for new ways of thinking about how to play the game. In that sense, it is truly a game changer. Anyone who is serious about the game and does not make an effort to at least acquaint themselves with the lessons Alpha Zero is revealing, is doing themselves a disservice.

I'm reading Game Changer now, and it has gotten me to be more aware of ways to try to get to the enemy king in positions where a direct mating attack does not seem to be obvious.   

On the other hand, I'm not sure it will really have much effect on how humans play the game, given our biological limitations in processing power

Realize that humans do not need to possess the processing power of Alpha Zero in order to benefit from the lessons it has to teach us.  The lessons to be learned are based in its approach to playing the game (i.e, its playing style) not its processing power.  That is, focus on the lessons it reveals, not processing power.

Keep in mind that by processing power I'm referring more to accuracy than brute force.  In many of the games, there is a lot of piece shuffling in order to try to accumulate small positional advantages, and of course the machine does not miscalculate combinations or miss tactical threats.

I guess I don't see how studying the games of Alpha Zero is going to have a practical effect on the way the average player (or even the average grandmaster) plays the game.

Have you tried https://www.worldcat.org/?

Not yet, thanks for the suggestion.

This is off-topic for this forum thread.  But here you go...

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/time-controls-everything-you-wanted-to-know

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Of course there are a lot of lessons or innovative play by Neural Networks. It doent matter, whether computer think 1000 positions or 1 billion positions but the way how neural network play is really exciting!

This is the game that played by Leelenstein (LS) (which is a little bit weaker than Leela) but still beat SF10+ running on 90 threads CPU.

This is the mainline of Scandinavian opening.

At move 7., LS played 7.. h4!!!

A new style of NN play, where human  will not consider as first priority cos of own king safety issue and stockfish wont consider cos programmer gave king safety penalty to Stockfish(SF) in searching those move.(And I bet SF wont play such moves even if you keep running SF for 1 hour or 1 week) . Why I love Neural Networks, cos they think freely on their own experience and training whereas Stockfish is programmed or red-taped with weak human chess players/programmers.

But why LS played h4!!
It immediately threatened g4! So black will lose bishop if black play 7....e6.

So, h4 is a very strong move, that indirectly block black's player's development of e6 and subsequent moves.

8. Bc4!! Seemed like idiotic move that tried to exchange awkward black's bishop on e6. But infact, LS forced SF to exchange Bishop and keep kt on c4 square. and force queen to corner to a6 (as queen is supporting on king side)

11. Rh3!!

LS doesnt give a chance to black to develop pieces, As soon as black attempt to develop QSB, white to immediately attack with Rg3.

After a few moves, one of the current best chess program in the world reached into unplayable position and subsequently lose the game.

Can you play like Alpha Zero, Leela Zero or Leelastein.

May be  or May be not.

Some game play are tactical and human cant follow tactics of chess engines!

However, when the position is cool like that where there is no immediate thread, we can follow their positional play. Tests have been shown that Artificial Intelligence are way superb in positional play than traditional engines but weaker in tactical play.

Additional Info. Chess.com current chess engine tournment show

Leela is no 1,

SF is No 2,

LS- no 3,

AF- no4.

Leela is currently running approx 120 knps(Alpha Zero was on 80knps) ,  SF is on 120 mnps  or x1000 times faster than Lc0/LS   and she is way stronger than Alpha Zero in 2017 due to faster hardware and better Neural Network improvements.

aggressif

Dynamics of Chess Strategy (Jansa) - a wonderful book despite an inelegant translation.

In progress. Seems to be helping - I broke 2500 blitz yesterday!

I'm participating in the National Open in June.

@logoczar It would be nice if you could review some of the books you read here.This seems to be a popular thread while searching for attacking books.

In my exploration, attacking books can mean various things - theory (how many pieces etc), full annotated games with theme, common patterns of attack (ex. Joel johnson books, with game snippets). It would be good to have a idea of how each books treats the topic. 

Making <1100 players “jump” to 1500 (online…. I presume) is not a real test of anyone’s coaching abilities. Try making someone rated 2000 reach 2300 and then we can talk properly.

My suggestion would be NOT to keep adding books to your reading list, but to read those you have. If you have finished reading those (which I doubt you will be able to do in the next 7 years), then re-read them several times.

what you’re seeking is not to be found in “new” or “more advanced” books… The treasure trove is already there in your list of books. Read. Re-read. Re-read once again. Internalize. Get better and better on the very basics. That, and talent.

good luck…

Bold idea! Immersive flow. Did I start tho...

How about Davorin Kuljasevic's modern classic: "Beyond Material". He is definitely aiming at ambitious players! I suspect just right for you.