4 Tips For Attacking In Chess

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[MartijnVos]

I do love ridiculously aggressive sacrifices, so I guess I'm the exact demographic for this move.

[Malcolm.Y]

There is another criterion that you didn't specify, but it came up twice in your analysis. That is: if you sac, can your opponent's Queen aid in defending her King, especially by directly opposing or interposing with your Queen? The threatened exchange of Queens will both neutralize most attacks and exposes the material disadvantage caused by the sac.

[coenkuijpers]

I totally agree that black will probably do something in the next three moves 😂

[rakhatthenut]

Broski made a whole video trying to justify his blunder 💀

[emphyriohazzl]

On this topic I highly recommand to read Vukovic's book "The Art of Attack in Chess". I remember in particular that he gives a list of 4 criterias for greek gifts which he considers that usually the sacrifice is correct if you have at least 3 of these criterias fulfilled. I think one fo them was "is the center blocked?" (not really the case here, although it does become blocked after acceptation of the second sacrifice from the knight) and another one was "is there no black piece able to come control h7 in one move?" (also not the case here as potentially the Bc8 can come to f5). I forgot the two other criteria, I think one of them was having a Rh1/ph4 for potential h file opening (read that book almost 30 years ago), but the whole book was a little jewel for attacking players and with very good practical advices, definitely worth reading and studying.

[hypers]

I don't like using strategies that rely on my opponent to make mistakes.

[ItzIngenious]

2:32 him not talking en passant hurts me

[papapapalima_scotland]

Feels you concentrate quite a lot on "why am I right" and avoid all the "why am I wrong?" Sure if your oponents makes all the bad moves that allow you to capitalize on your "blunder", you win. But realistically, you are just hoping for them to blunder a few times in a row.

[richardlee-shanok]

They was a great lesson. Thanks a lot Nelson!

[Educpurposes]

0:33 to be honest nelson, I was playing an international chess tournament and I sacrifice my bishop but stockfish says it was a blunder, good thing my opponent didn't take advantage of my blunder because he was so stressed about that sacrifice and he thinks for a while but eventually in the end I win in end game

[mrrobinson]

Your videos are exactly what I be looking for. Thanks

[jayrussell]

That's the difference between a Grandmaster and others...they don't think this "might" work, they see what WILL work.

[harrygross]

Nelsi, you know that I remain one of your oldest ( in 2 ways) and greatest supporters, but this seems like poor calculation and hope chess,

[billcook]

In the middle of that sequence, the move I would have made was Ne6, forking the queen and the rook. And losing my knight to the bishop that was invisible to me for some reason.

[bobftw]

I feel like if you sack the bishop and the knight in this position, no one under 1500 will lose as black

[georgehavrincea]

I'm rated 1600 and I wouldn't sacrifice in this position. But if you're in for a thrill, might give it a go

[Educpurposes]

2:33 en passant is a playable move and it was just like how said nelson if black takes the pawn then theres a discover check and white will win.
Even though I'm just 1500 I can analyze it because of what I just learned to stockfishes game

[VictorSivtsev]

I actually played a similar game yesterday. I sacrificed a bishop, which turned out to be a blunder, sacrificed a rook on the very next move and yet managed to checkmate my opponent in five moves. The problem was that I missed a checkmate in three because I got nervous. Fortunately, my opponent missed the only move that saves the game.
That's an interesting concept, really. I much prefer a slow, methodical type of playing, attacking my opponent's weaknesses and creating a mating net. That said, if there's an opportunity to sacrifice my entire army for a quick checkmate, I might consider doing it.

[laurentfrancken]

Queen B3 to C2, nice diagonal behind the bisschop

[DaveHawthorne-lkmz]

Fantastic stuff NL! I just checkmated opponents-twice- yesterday and I was going on the instinct that their was something there. You made me realize I need to go through the sources-including Logical Chess- to help me see these opportunities with more clarity. Thanks. You have an incredible gift for teaching this game. Bless you.