Attacking Masterclass with IM Mat Kolosowski

Attacking Masterclass with IM Mat Kolosowski How much time do you spend on training your attacking skills? As many as 90% of chess players spend nearly ZERO! That’s right. Nine out of ten players don’t develop the most important chess skill at all… how crazy is that? Can you imagine a pro basketball player that doesn’t practice his shots, a boxer that doesn’t train his punches or a soccer player not training his kicks? Hardly. It’s not any different in chess. If you want to win games, you got to know how to attack and how to do it well. Attacking is bread-and-butter of all strong players because it is much more efficient than defending.  That’s the only way to get consistent and predictable results. The problem is… Simply developing pieces and playing “logical” moves don’t work anymore. Strong attacking positions don’t just appear out of nowhere. What should you do? The only way of achieving a strong attacking position is building it yourself. That takes a huge chunk of randomness out