How to Crush your Chess Opponents

Simon Williams, one of Britain's most dynamic and aggressive chess players, selected his favorite attack games of the modern era and wrote them down with a contagious zeal that will inspire and instruct.

Description of How to Crush your Chess Opponents

It takes us through the decision-making process, explains how each stage of an attack concept is formed, and shows how the best players detect the signs that it is time to bet everything on a full round. We also obtain information on the role of intuition and calculation in both attack and defense.
Players featured in this entertaining collection include:

* Judit Polgar
* Alexei Shirov
* Veselin Topalov
* Viswanathan Anand
* Vasily Ivanchuk
* Peter Svidler
* Alexander Grishchuk
* Magnus Carlsen

Simon Williams is an experienced international grandmaster from England who has earned a reputation for playing attack chess without inhibition. He represented England at world and European championships in various age groups, and has been a regular at the British Championship since his teens, an event in which he was runner-up in 2004. This is his third book for Gambit.

Various opinions:

"Beginners should buy this book for lucid explanations on how to make an attack. Strong players should buy it just for enjoyment, and because the diagrams are plentiful enough that they hardly need a board and pieces." - Mark Donlan, Chess Horizons.

All in all, an inspiring book with fantastic attack games ... "- Martin Rieger, www.freechess.info

"This is a very good selection of attack games, with an emphasis on fun rather than deep analysis and totally correct play." - Sean Marsh, marshtowers.blogspot.com