The Art of Attack

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     Has anyone read through the classic book, "The Art of Attack" by Vladimir Vukovic?  This book was recommended by IM Silman in his article he wrote quite awhile ago, "creating a study plan".  I am trying to go through this book currently and came to realize that it is an extremely tedious task!  (Chess books are probably one of the most difficult to comprehend.)

MrMnM

Its a good book but maybe it is beyond your level.

NajdorfDefense

One of the greatest chess books ever, but a tougher one.

fburton

Agree that people learn best in different ways and that simply reading chess books - however much fun that may be - is unlikely to lead to significant improvement without "putting the work in".

SF mentioned iPad books. What would be really nice is a way to get chess positions out of plain (not interactive) e-books by e.g. tapping on the diagram. Mobile devices are powerful enough to do that quite easily now, but the infrastructure isn't there - at least not in the iPad yet. One would need a built-in way to invoke the board recognition & chess app while running the ebook app, so that it could take a shot of the screen and know where the user had tapped. One day, in iOS 7 perhaps.