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ARenko

In my experience, you will get more out of reading one good book thoroughly and putting in the effort to try and understand everything than you will from owning 100 books.

My advice is to choose a few of the books that you already own and go through them seriously. You already own too many books on attacking (way too many books) - getting more of them will not help you at all. Owning too many books is more likely to make you weaker than stronger. (I say this as someone who owns way too many chess books, but I gave up any chess ambitions long ago.)

DreamLearnBe
ARenko wrote:

In my experience, you will get more out of reading one good book thoroughly and putting in the effort to try and understand everything than you will from owning 100 books.

My advice is to choose a few of the books that you already own and go through them seriously. You already own too many books on attacking (way too many books) - getting more of them will not help you at all. Owning too many books is more likely to make you weaker than stronger. (I say this as someone who owns way too many chess books, but I gave up any chess ambitions long ago.)

Sage advice....if only we followed it. I guess it is too hard to resist the allure of a new book (and there are so many good ones out there). Most of these books would require anywhere between a month and a year to dissect and digest.

TRAvghan
LogoCzar wrote:

I am interested in studying every relevant (appropriate for 2000+ USCF) book on attacking chess/dynamics/sacrifices on the market. This includes annotated game collections on amazing attackers. I've looked and found many books, but there are probably some that I don't have and haven't managed to find on the internet yet.

Here are the attacking books I already own (some already completed):

  • Art of attack in chess (Vukovic)
  • Attack and Defense (Aagaard)
  • Attacking Manual 1 (Aagaard)
  • Attacking Manual 2 (Aagaard)
  • Advanced Chess Tactics (Psakhis)
  • Dvoretsky's analytical manual
  • Storming the Barricades (Christiansen)
  • Rocking the Ramparts (Christiansen)
  • Dynamic Chess Strategy (Suba)
  • Attack with Mikhail Tal (Tal)
  • Dynamic Decision Making in Chess (Gelfand)
  • Secrets of Attacking Chess (Marin)
  • How To Play Dynamic Chess (Beim)
  • Sacrifice and Initiative in Chess (Sokolov)
  • The Art of Attacking Chess (Franco)
  • The Chess Attacker's Handbook (Song)
  • The Magic of Chess Tactics (Meyer)
  • Mating the Castled King (Gormally)
  • Soviet Middlegame Technique (Romanovsky)
  • Alterman's Gambit Guide (Black gambits 1-2)
  • Positional Chess Sacrifices (Suba)
  • The Art of Sacrifice in Chess (Spielmann)
  • The Exchange Sacrifice (Sergey Kasparov)
  • Gambit Killer (Salgado)
  • Gambit Busters (Collins)
  • (Chessable) Sharp Middle Games: A Practical Guide to Chess Calculation (Gormally)
  • Some assorted opening books on sharp openings (not certain that I want to study these)

Annotated game collections on attacking players:

  • Judit Polgar's trilogy
  • Kasparov's 12-book series (some are attacking players)
  • My Best Games of Chess 1908-1937 (Alekhine)
  • The life and games of Mikhail Tal
  • Mikhail Tal's best games 1-3 (Karolyi)
  • Fire on the board (Shirov)
  • San Lois 2005 (Gershon)
  • Chess Secrets: The Giants of Power Play (McDonald)
  • Best Attacking Games of 2012-2015 (Naiditsch)
  • Great Attackers (Crouch)
  • Game Changer: AlphaZero's Groundbreaking Chess Strategies and the Promise of AI (Sadler)

How about Chess Structures: A Grandmaster Guide by Mauricio Flores Rios?