| Attacking Manual Volume 2:
Technique and Praxis
The old masters dealt only with the static features of positional rules. But these are insufficient to explain the basics of chess. The problem is that chess, like other sciences, has undergone a dynamic revolution, but chess literature doesn´t yet reflect it. In this major work Aagard explains the rules of attack (the exploitation of a dynamic advantage), balanced between understandable examples, and deep analysis. Five years in the making, this book deals with weak kings, sacrifices, various minor attacking themes, intuitive sacrifices, opposite castling, modern king hunts, and enduring initiative.
Content:
004 Key to Symbols used
007 Preface to the second edition
009 Bring it on - an introduction
009 Chapter 1 - Understanding Mating Attacks
011 Typical Mates & Focal Points
025 Three Piece Attacks
030 Insurance Policies
031 Transformations
040 Exercises
043 Solutions
053 Chapter 2 - Typical Piece Play
057 The Assault Ratio
067 Deflection
076 Overloading
081 Tempo-gainers
084 Piece Sacrifices for time
089 Transition squares
101 Lines of Communication
118 Vacating Squares
127 Outposts
135 Launching
148 The pin
165 Improving the Circumstances
170 Prophylaxis
178 The f5/f4-squares
181 Chapter 3 - Typical Pawn Play
183 Pawn breaks
193 Pawns as valuable as pieces
208 Pawn storms
237 Pawn sacrifices
243 Provoking weaknesses
251 Chapter 4 - King Safety
253 Destroying the defensive structure
264 Line clearance
275 Cutting off the defences
281 Weak kings
293 Drawing the king into the open
300 Kings on the run
311 Cutting off the escape route
315 The king stuck in the centre
321 Breakthrough in the centre
346 Two thematic sacrifices
353 Chapter 5 — Intuitive Sacrifices and Enduring Initiative
355 Creative play
358 A sudden chance
377 Aggressive opening play
391 Intuitive sacrifices
399 Enduring initiative
413 Chapter 6 - Exercises
423 Solutions
457 Index of games and game fragments | 
