This is the ultimate bible of attacking chess. The collection includes 21 absolutely astounding attacking games, played by the strongest chess entity on earth, 4000 elo engine Stockfish. By the way, the engine is free, so you can download it and spar with it to your heart's content. Stockfish plays chess like no other. And it attacks like no other too. Whether it is demolition sacrifices, fast storming pawn raids, cleverly castling long, leaving its king in the center, but outpacing its rival in attack, leaving its rival behind in development and whipping crushing attack, seeking out unbelievable tactical resources or outplaying its opponent strategically, to then convert its advantage through sudden king raid, Stockfish knows it all. And Stockfish finds new ways of attack, you will rarely or never find in human games, even at the grandmaster and world champion level. Stockfish's attack is art, Stockfish's attack is knowledge, Stockfish's attack is extremely deep and precise calculation. Humans rarely reach such depth, even in analysis. And therefore Stockfish is the go to source, when we want to learn how to optimally handle chess attacks. The games feature opposition from among other chess engines of lower strength, but still any of those engines could beat us easily. Annotations are ample, on each move, highlighting both the positional aspects of the game development, as well as, naturally, the rules and subtleties, relating to attacking chess. You will learn a lot of attacking rules here, but also how to break the rules, when necessary. Variations abound too, since without concrete variations it's on occasion difficult to distill the full essence of attacking chess. You simply need to understand the patterns, but also calculate accurately, since every error in calculation could prove catastrophic, provided that chess attack is mostly about tactics. I guess most attacking players are like that - they like to calculate. They like tactics. So if you are one of those, this book will suit you greatly. Chess evaluations are shown after moves played, for orientation purposes. I personally find this very helpful. The numbers are in centipawns, cps, with 100 centipawns equal to one full pawn material. If scores are positive, that means white stands ahead, otherwise black is better. Thus 50 cps score would mean half a pawn white advantage, while -75 cps three quarters of a pawn black advantage. The winning margin would be supposedly over 100 cps advantage for one side. When you browse through the games of this book, you will get convinced Stockfish plays wilder than Tal, Alekhine and Kasparov, taken together. But in stark contrast with the games of these players, Stockfish makes no mistakes. So when you see a sacrifice executed, you will know for sure the sacrifice is correct. That adds another level of beauty and satisfaction. Speaking of beauty, the games exude charm, a quaint charm random human games will not. How many times, playing through the games, I have been whispering: "awesome"! And I guess you will do the same. Mixing careful explanations on each move, meticulous offensive and tactical analysis, as well as demonstrating the inimitable play of a giant, the present collection is a great source of learning how to attack perfectly. And isn't that what we all want, to attack as no other, winning plentiful games. Because, as demonstrated by Stockfish, in full accordance with conventional wisdom, there is nothing more important than being able to attack powerfully - the simple truth is all games end in checkmate, with other considerations far less relevant.