One of the finest chess books ever written, now in the revised algebraic edition. The author expounds both the basic principles and the most complex forms of attack on the king. Chapters:
The attack against the uncastle kingThe attack on the king that has lost the right to castleOn castling and attacking the castled position in generalMating patternsFocal pointsThe classic bishop sacrificeRanks, files, and diagonals in the attack on the castled kingPieces and pawns in the attack on the castled kingThe attack on the fianchettoed and queenside castling positionsDefending against the attack on the castled kingThe phases of the attack on the castled kingThe attack on the king as an integral part of the game
