Product Description

The subject of the book and movie Searching for Bobby Fischer, Josh Waitzkin has long been the top-ranked player for his age in the United States and a role model for chess-playing kids everywhere. Now, for the first time, Waitzkin reveals the aggressive tactics and psychological techniques that have propelled him to the forefront of the chess world. His unique introduction to the game combines solid instruction with stories about his personal experiences that capture all the excitement and tension of playing chess at the championship level.

Josh Waitzkin's Attacking Chess presents nineteen different offensive strategies, progressing from the most elementary, including forks, pins, skewers, and double threats, to the more advanced and sophisticated moves used by the world's best players. Chapters such as Minor Traps, The Seventh Rank and the Pig, Mating Nets, and Quiet Moves in Attack show how anyone can develop a more aggressive and creative style of play. Each strategy is illustrated with examples taken from actual games Waitzkin has played, described with all the gusto and competitive intensity this young master brings to his craft. You can feel the heat of battle throughout this action-packed manual -- it's guaranteed to entertain and inspire all students of chess who want to learn how to emerge victorious from the black and white jungle.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #187642 in Books
• Published on: 1995-08-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Review
Garry KasparovWorld Champion Of ChessThis book will help you enter the exciting world of the black and white jungle....Josh is not only a very good chess player but has learned from his father how to explain his ideas and feelings for the game....He has produced a lovely work.

Review
Garry Kasparov World Champion Of Chess This book will help you enter the exciting world of the black and white jungle....Josh is not only a very good chess player but has learned from his father how to explain his ideas and feelings for the game....He has produced a lovely work.

About the Author
Josh Waitzkin started playing chess at the age of six in New York's Washington Square Park, where he was discovered by Bruce Pandolfini, who became his teacher. He became a national master at thirteen and an international master at sixteen. He has won eight national scholastic championships and became the U.S. Junior Champion in 1994. Josh lives in New York City.

Customer Reviews

Not Just For Kids
This book is similar to Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess as far as the "no chess set needed" which makes it nice to keep on the nightstand for some late night reading. Speaking of Bobby Fischer, the book is written by Josh Waitzkin whose life was portrayed in the movie "Searching for Bobby Fischer" and a heck of a chess player in his own right, although last I heard he's retired from Chess. The book focuses on the attacking side of chess, pins, skewers, discovery checks, and my favorite the knight fork, and much more, all examples are clear and easy to digest without clogging up your mind with variations. This book will improve your chess. Overall I recommend this book for all beginners and amateur players.

Entertaining chess book
This was the book that I had most fun reading it.
Although I can't say that my game has improved a lot, or even at all, it was worthy reading it just for all the stories told in it.
The tactical elements are not analysed deep enough and there is no clear way how to achieve them.
It may be the easiest book I've read.
I recommend this book to all those who find other chess books boring. This is not! But it won't help you improve your game much.
I should say that Josh Waitzkin does a much better job in the tutorial of the chessmaster game (10th).

Wanna stay ahead of your chess-improving kids?
I was attracted to this book after watching Searching for Bobby Fisher with my two young sons. The book turned out to be even more engaging and educational for my 13 year old and me, his old Dad, than I expected. Josh writes like I suspect he plays - with passion. I am impressed by the connections he makes between chess and life, and his humanity and lack of fanatacism - an unfortunate quality that seems to haunt many brilliant chess players. Josh's humanity and heart come across in the movie, as they do in his writing as an adult. Perhaps his parents played a key role in the development of this exceptional human being. I now want to read this father's book, which inspired the 1993 movie.