Greatest Attacking Chess Players Of All Time

Tal, Nezhmetdinov, Anderssen, Alekhine, off the top of my head

Unfortunately though his notes aren't (eek!).  I'm trying to slog my way through that thing right now...

Nezhmetdinov !!!! try checking his games ! he is the Tatar King! Even the great Mikhail Tal took him as his second when he played for the Championship

the Tater King?

A joke three months in the making? 

Hey, give me a break (I only go through these things once in a great while).

mijail tal

i prefer Alexander Alekhine he was greatest tactician and stormy attacker

and he had magician combinations and superb endgame

Enough that the only world champion, who retained the world championship until his death and did not lose only Versus euwe teams one point and recovered by the superiority of six points, 

Enough that he retained the world championship until his death and that botvinnik couldn't get it, but his death on the orders of Stalin was the only obstacle for either the Soviets on this title

EGY_Hawk

Woud Bobby Fischer be considered a great attacking player in chess?

LivingLifeForLove wrote:

Woud Bobby Fischer be considered a great attacking player in chess?

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I consider a more All-around chessplayer. He did produce a few beautiful attacking games, however.

Not really. Fischer's great skill, like Capablanca before him, lay in finding the clear path to victory in the middle game. Of course, he had some great attacks, but he was not predominantly an attacking player in the same way that Alekhine, Tal, or Kasparov were. 

Rashid Nezh for certain. Some of his combinations are beyond belief.

ah I see. Which chess player of the three would you recommend someone who is a beginner study to get stronger attacking moves by studying them? Alekhine, Tal, or Kasparov?

LivingLifeForLove wrote:

ah I see. Which chess player of the three would you recommend someone who is a beginner study to get stronger attacking moves by studying them? Alekhine, Tal, or Kasparov?

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Take your pick, LLFL.

Chess history is a rich and wonderous world, with hidden treasures under almost any rock you can find.

But for openings, I would say Kasparov, because he's the most modern.

But for middlegames,study them all!

Interesting to note that nobody has mentioned Magnus Carlsen..just goes to reinforce the view that we have a really boring World Chess Champion at the moment.

Tal, Morphy, Kasparov, Fischer, Capablanca, Alekhine and others I'm not entirely sure about.

Thank you varelse1 for the information and the advice. I am trying to learn how to be more aggressive in my chess game and not so passive. For countless games now, I have been letting my opponents tear me apart in my games. I let them inside and I let them over power me without much fight from me. If they move and attack my pieces, I move back and retreat everytime giving them safe passage to my weaknesses. I am sick and tired of being a passive player and letting opponents just clobber me to pieces. Its time for me to fight back. Which is why I need to study an attacking player, learn attacking strategies, and learn how to attack again in my openings along with the openings. So yes, I appreciate the advice very much. Thank you :D.

Actually post #40 Carlsen was mentioned.

I don't really agree myself. I think of Magnus as a great endgame player. But far from boring.

I stand corrected , he was mentioned once. Generally though Magnus strikes me as a brilliant grinder but I have never really seen that much attacking  flair. It seems to me that Magnus looks for a small positional edge and grinds away for 6 hours to maximise that advantage.

This might be unfair but it is my impression , others will of course diagree.