The Greatest Attacker in Chess

[AdminX]

That's right, 'I saw it and just had to grab it"!

[carldaman]

Nice to see another book on Nezhmetdinov. I bought the other two years ago and they're now out of print and much sought after.
I wonder how this one compares to those. The author does seem to reference online videos - I wish he knew about the online chess engine version of Nezh, too.

[reflectionofpower]

I agree. He is right up there at the top of attacking players. It has been a joy to look over some of his games.

[AdminX]

I do like the fact that the author includes analysis exercises in the game annotations for one to ponder on. Of course your decision may depend on the type of player you are. However if you enjoy attacking there is food to chew on here.

Example:

[Chessqueen]

Since Chess is 99% tactics, I believe that it is better to know how to explore different tactical positions and by understanding chess tactics is the best way to get better at chess, therefore, I recommend this book as well

[Cornfed]

Since Chess is 99% tactics, I believe that it is better to know how to explore different tactical positions and by understanding chess tactics is the best way to get better at chess, therefore, I recommend this book as well

The problem...chess isn't really "99% tactics".

As usual, it is all in how one defines things. I guess one could call a rock or a log or the ground a 'chair'...but that does formal disservice to the thing I sit on while typing at my computer.

Tactics...you don't even have to calculate (every time anyway) if you have a decent 'feel' for the game....and that is part of the fun of blitz, you 'feel and see' and play on intuition...really don't have time to 'calculate'. I played this against some 'Joe' the other day in ICC Blitz. Granted, he didn't play well, but, conversely, I really didn't 'calculate' anything. Yes, if I had, yes, I could have found a few more precise moves toward the end especially; but the goal is to have fun and...win.

[pgn] [Event "ICC 3 0 u"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2022.02.07"]
[Round "?"]
[White "guest268"]
[Black "Me"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A40"]
[Annotator "Me "]
[PlyCount "102"]
[EventDate "2022.??.??"]

{Blitz 3 Min.} 1. d4 e6 2. c4 f5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Nf3 b6 5. Qb3 a5 6. a3 Bxc3+ 7.
bxc3 Nf6 8. Bg5 h6 9. Bxf6 Qxf6 10. e3 O-O 11. Bd3 a4 12. Qc2 Bb7 13. d5 Na6
14. O-O Nc5 15. Be2 e5 16. Rad1 d6 17. Nd2 Bc8 18. f3 Bd7 19. e4 f4 20. Qb1 g5
21. Rfe1 h5 22. Nf1 Kf7 23. h3 Rh8 24. Nh2 Rag8 25. Rf1 Ke7 26. Rc1 Qh6 27. Qc2
g4 28. fxg4 hxg4 29. Nxg4 Bxg4 30. Bxg4 Rxg4 31. hxg4 Qh2+ 32. Kf2 Rh3 33. Ke1
Re3+ 34. Kd1 Rd3+ 35. Ke1 Qg3+ 36. Rf2 Nxe4 37. Kf1 Re3 38. Re1 Qxg4 39. Rxe3
fxe3 40. Rf3 Nd2+ 41. Ke2 Qxg2+ 42. Kxe3 Qxf3+ 43. Kxd2 Qf2+ 44. Kc1 Qxc2+ 45.
Kxc2 Kf6 46. Kd3 Kf5 47. Ke3 Kg5 48. Ke4 Kg4 49. Ke3 Kf5 50. Kf3 e4+ 51. Ke3
Ke5 0-1

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[reflectionofpower]

I do like the fact that the author includes analysis exercises in the game annotations for one to ponder on. Of course your decision may depend on the type of player you are. However if you enjoy attacking there is food to chew on here.

Example:

Just looking at it as myself I would definitely go for the Qh5+ scenario. Lot of attacking possibilities and you will have the initiative. Then I set it up really quick with Komodo Dragon 2.6.1 and after Qxg2 I was looking at Rg1 to sack a piece for more attacking lines and it looks winning for White. The engine suggests Rg1 but I know me and I would have done it too. Interestingly Rashid's games always seems to have the most exciting unique attacking motifs. He also had a tendency to lose to lower rated players because of this. Spielmann,Marshall,Janowski and other attacking players had this tendency.

[AdminX]

I do like the fact that the author includes analysis exercises in the game annotations for one to ponder on. Of course your decision may depend on the type of player you are. However if you enjoy attacking there is food to chew on here.

Example:

Just looking at it as myself I would definitely go for the Qh5+ scenario. Lot of attacking possibilities and you will have the initiative. Then I set it up really quick with Komodo Dragon 2.6.1 and after Qxg2 I was looking at Rg1 to sack a piece for more attacking lines and it looks winning for White. The engine suggests Rg1 but I know me and I would have done it too. Interestingly Rashid's games always seems to have the most exciting unique attacking motifs. He also had a tendency to lose to lower rated players because of this. Spielmann,Marshall,Janowski and other attacking players had this tendency.

I came to the same conclusion as you and would have played the line as well. However there was a follow up down that rabbit hole that I missed, it was a nice retreating move that continued the attack. Mind you this is all sideline analysis that was not played in Rashid's game. Still so far a great book.

[Uri]

But he lost to Yuri Averbakh so it could be that Yuri Averbakh was actually a better player.

[jdart]

Tal was famous for playing speculative moves including sacs, fairly often unsound ones. But Nezhemetdinov IMO was even more aggressive, and very creative.