Attack is a fairly advanced topic. For advanced players, there are books like Alexander Kotov and Paul Keres' Art of the Middlegame, Attack with Mikhail Tal and Larry Christiansen's Rocking the Ramparts, all of which are quite insightful.
If you just want a book on checkmate patterns, there are Murray Chandler's How to Beat Your Dad at Chess, George Renaud and Victor Kahn's The Art of the Checkmate and John Nunn's 1001 Deadly Checkmates.
Kindaspongey, thank for your help on the Links.
Wayne_thomas, i will check these books too .thanks for your reply
jambyvedar, i will check on your suggestions too.
ulfhedner1234, is the book will be understandable for a 1400 player
I agree that tactics and not dropping pieces are of key importance, but having at least a simple plan is also important. If I was still coaching a high school team, 900-1500 OTB players, I would have ALL of them read Fred Wilson's Simple Attacking Plans, which are based on 4 principles. His principle of pointing all your pieces, if possible, at your opponent's king - and the game examples that support it - are worth the book alone.
It's a big edge if lower-mid-rated players can develop a decent plan at all. That's why, when the Bishop's Opening had been out-of-favor for 60 years, I taught it to my high school players because it's based on getting in an early f4 and launching a K-side attack usually based on a pawn storm, often aided by castling Q-side.
I would add that my 1990's high school players, multiple-consecutive-year county champs in the state's most competitive county and 3rd-4th-5th place state trophies 3 years running, won an awful lot of games based on the 50-page, 2nd chapter of GM's Keres's and Kotov's The Art of the Middle Game, Strategy and Tactics of Attack on the King - especially the part that tells you how to determine if you should castle on the opposite side - and then pawn storm the opponent's king.
Yeah, I found that chapter quite helpful too.
Attack is a fairly advanced topic. For advanced players, there are books like Alexander Kotov and Paul Keres' Art of the Middlegame, Attack with Mikhail Tal and Larry Christiansen's Rocking the Ramparts, all of which are quite insightful. ...
There seem to be those who believe that there is the potential for not-so-advanced players to learn something of value from books that explain sample games for that target audience.
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708090402/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review874.pdf
http://dev.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/Simple-Attacking-Plans-77p3731.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708104437/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/logichess.pdf
ulfhedner1234, is the book will be understandable for a 1400 player
I have not been able to find an online review of the Grooten book, but here again is a sample that might give you an idea about whether or not the book is for you at this time:
https://www.newinchess.com/media/wysiwyg/product_pdf/9032.pdf
Perhaps too advanced for OP, but
How chess games are Won and Lost,
by GM Lars Bo Hansen
worked for me.
I agree that tactics and not dropping pieces are of key importance, but having at least a simple plan is also important. If I was still coaching a high school team, 900-1500 OTB players, I would have ALL of them read Fred Wilson's Simple Attacking Plans, which are based on 4 principles. His principle of pointing all your pieces, if possible, at your opponent's king - and the game examples that support it - are worth the book alone.
It's a big edge if lower-mid-rated players can develop a decent plan at all. That's why, when the Bishop's Opening had been out-of-favor for 60 years, I taught it to my high school players because it's based on getting in an early f4 and launching a K-side attack usually based on a pawn storm, often aided by castling Q-side.
I would add that my 1990's high school players, multiple-consecutive-year county champs in the state's most competitive county and 3rd-4th-5th place state trophies 3 years running, won an awful lot of games based on the 50-page, 2nd chapter of GM's Keres's and Kotov's The Art of the Middle Game, Strategy and Tactics of Attack on the King - especially the part that tells you how to determine if you should castle on the opposite side - and then pawn storm the opponent's king.
+1
I've been. Researching this topic and The Art of Checkmate is highly e4 player biased. The second half of the book has better for the d4 player. I started reading 1001 winning chess sacrifices and combinations. I think it teaches you to attack much better and see the board better.
or at least there were less e4 opening necessities as the book went on.
Thank you guys for your replies
Perhaps too advanced for OP, but How chess games are Won and Lost, by GM Lars Bo Hansen worked for me.
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708093711/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review670.pdf
http://www.gambitbooks.com/pdfs/How_Chess_Games_are_Won_and_Lost.pdf
https://www.chess.com/blog/Chessmo/review-a-first-book-of-morphy
By the way, if I remember correctly, 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bc4 Nd4 4 Nxe5 Qg5 5 Nxf7 Qxg2 6 Rf1 Qxe4+ 7 Be2 Nf6# is a famous trap. Tempting as it might be, it is probably not a good idea to go for such things.