Mating the Castled King

For the chess player who wants to improve, it is vital to acquire new skills and, especially, to increase one’s arsenal of attacking ideas. One of the most effective ways to do this is through pattern recognition and chess imagery. As most attacking games involve an attack against a castled king, Ziegler uses his 20 years of training experience to teach the most important attacking formations against the castled king. Many promising positions are squandered due to a lack of attacking skills, as in the position on the front cover, where a strong player overlooked a mate in four moves. If you read this book, this may never happen to you!