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Attacking Chess: Know When to Strike

Most players know how to attack. What separates strong players from the rest is knowing when. In this course, GM Sipke Ernst, a grandmaster from the Netherlands and experienced coach, addresses the mistake he sees most often in his own students: attacking with the right idea, at the wrong moment.

Free video sample: Introduction

Free video sample: Example Game: Ernst - Mediema

You'll learn to read the signals that indicate an attack is justified, such as a shortage of defenders around the enemy king, a lead in development, or open lines and weaknesses near the king's position. Just as important, you'll study examples of attacks that failed, and why. The course also covers when to increase pressure gradually instead of forcing complications, when a prophylactic move does more for your attack than another aggressive one, and how central control determines whether a flank attack succeeds or backfires. A final chapter draws on GM Sipke Ernst's own games to show how strong grandmasters generate attacking chances even from inferior positions.

What you'll get:
• A practical framework for recognizing when to attack, and when to hold back
• Instructive examples of both successful and flawed attacking play
• Chapters on pressure vs. calculation, prophylaxis, flank attacks, and attacking from worse positions
• Real games from GM Sipke Ernst's own practice

Learn to attack when it counts, not just when you want to.

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This is what is delivered:
  • Fritztrainer App for Windows and Mac
  • Available as download or on DVD
  • Video course with a running time of approx. 4-8 hrs.
  • Repertoire database: save and integrate Fritztrainer games into your own repertoire (in WebApp Opening or in ChessBase)
  • Interactive exercises with video feedback: the authors present exercises and key positions, the user has to enter the solution. With video feedback (also on mistakes) and further explanations.
  • Sample games as a ChessBase database.
  • New: many Fritztrainer now also available as stream in the ChessBase video portal!
That's what the FritzTrainer App can do for you:
  • Videos can run in the Fritztrainer app or in the ChessBase program with board graphics, notation and a large function bar
  • Analysis engine can be switched on at any time
  • Video pause for manual navigation and analysis in game notation
  • Input of your own variations, engine analysis, with storage in the game
  • Learn variations: view specific lines in the ChessBase WebApp Opening with autoplay, memorize variations and practise transformation (initial position - final position).
  • Active opening training: selected opening positions are transferred to the ChessBase WebApp Fritz-online. In a match against Fritz you test your new knowledge and actively play the new opening.
Even more possibilities: Start FritzTrainer in the ChessBase program!
  • The database with all games and analyses can be opened directly.
  • Games can be easily added to the opening reference.
  • Direct evaluation with game reference, games can be replayed on the analysis board
  • Your own variations are saved and can be added to the own repertoire
  • Replay training
  • LiveBook active
  • All engines installed in ChessBase can be started for the analysis
  • Assisted Analysis
  • Print notation and diagrams (for worksheets)

Sample video

Contents

  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Indicators for Attacking
  • Signals for an Attack
  • Example Game: Polgar - Karpov
  • Example Game: Ernst-Miedema
  • Space advantage
  • Example Game: Valenu-Korhonen
  • Chapter 2: Unjustified Attacks
  • When the attack is simply not justified
  • Example Game: Karaivanova-Pegaiu
  • Example Game: Csom-Korchnoi
  • Example Game: Kasparov-Gulko
  • Example Game: Bosboom-Ernst
  • Chapter 3: Increasing Pressure vs. Brute Force
  • Increasing pressure vs Brute force
  • Example Game: Smyslov-Spassky
  • Example Game: Galperin-Ernst
  • Example Game: Van Foreest-Giri
  • Chapter 4: Bringing the Pieces
  • How many attackers are enough?
  • Example Game: Petrosian-Smyslov
  • Example Game: Navara-Timman
  • Example Game: Van Foreest-Ernst
  • Example Game: Stukopin - Ernst
  • Chapter 5: Prophylaxis in Attack
  • Prophylaxis in attack
  • Example: What is your opponent threatening?
  • Example Game: Spassky-Petrosian
  • Example Game: Simagin-Abramson
  • Example Game: Ernst-Parligras
  • Chapter 6: Attacking on the Flank
  • Central control
  • Example Game: Carlsen-Wang Hao
  • Example Game: Otto-Feys
  • Example Game: Smeets-Wendt
  • Example Game: Mitkov-Sutovsky
  • Example Game: Carlsen-Ivanchuk
  • Example Game: Fedoseev-Bocharov
  • Example Game: Botvinnik-Zagoriansky
  • Chapter 7: Attacking from a Bad Position
  • Attacking from a bad position
  • Example Game: Larsen-Van Scheltinga
  • Example Game: Carlsen-Topalov
  • Example Game: Ernst-Mamedov
  • Example Game: Ernst-Kovalenko
  • Exercise 1
  • Exercise 2
  • Exercise 3
  • Exercise 4
  • Exercise 5
  • Exercise 6
  • Exercise 7
  • Exercise 8
  • Exercise 9
  • Exercise 10
  • Exercise 11
  • Exercise 12
  • Exercise 13
  • Exercise 14
  • Exercise 15
  • Exercise 16
  • Exercise 17
  • Exercise 18
  • Exercise 19
  • Exercise 20
  • Exercise 21
  • Exercise 22
  • Exercise 23
  • Exercise 24
  • Exercise 25
  • Exercise 26
  • Exercise 27
  • Exercise 28
  • Exercise 29
  • Exercise 30
  • Exercise 31
  • Exercise 32
  • Exercise 33
  • Exercise 34
  • Exercise 35
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