Who is "they", as in "they told me"?
A lot of people have expressed a good opinion of the book.
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-equipment/the-art-of-attack-for-early-intermediate-players
Is 'The Art of Chess Attack' by Vukovic outdated?
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Sep 10, 2024
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A lot of mistakes in that book. I found it fun to refute some of the lines
Sep 10, 2024
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marqumax wrote:
A lot of mistakes in that book. I found it fun to refute some of the lines
Well, John Nunn issued a new edition in 1999 in algebraic and with corrections and notes.
Were you using his edition?
Sep 10, 2024
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Some of the specific variations are wrong.
The concepts that the book teaches are timeless.
Best chess book ever written: Pawn Power in Chess by Hans Kmoch.
It must have added 500 points to my playing strength. Eventually. When I got the point.
You'll need to learn a new terminology and then read the book two or three times, though.
It's a great read. It contains a lot of classical attacking games. Personally I don't care if the given lines contain holes. After all I am not reading a chess book in the hopes to get exactly the same position or to find the truth of a position.
Sep 10, 2024
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I think it’s good for books to have mistakes in variations. It keeps you sharp
No, it is not.
Tactical mistakes in the analysis? Sure enough, I can barely find books without such mistakes -including Kasparov's My Great Predecessors where (outdated) engines were used in the analytical procedure.
Overall books like this one, or Shereshevsky's Endgame Stategy are terrific, and tactical omissions aren't really important. You will play against a human, not a modern machine, after all.
I'm 1800 OTB FIDE. I played a lot when I was younger and just returned last January.
Read back 'My system', 'How to reassess your chess', and 'Endgame course' by Silman. I was thinking about reading the art of chess attack but they now told me that is outdated. What do you think? Any other books that you suggest?