2/28/2023 – Karsten Mueller released a brand new Fritztrainer a few weeks ago. For once, however, it's not about fabulous endgames, but about the basic rules of attacking play. In the interview with the German grandmaster, we see how wonderfully a good attack can be completed with the help of two examples.
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Most players prefer to attack rather than defend. But what is the correct way to do it? GM Dr Karsten Müller has compiled many rules and motifs to guide you, along with sharpening your intuition for the exceptions.
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Interview with Dr. Karsten Mueller
on his latest Fritztrainer: Attacking correctly - rules of thumb for practice
What many people might not be aware of is that the endgame aficionado, as he outlines in his Four Player Types Model Fritztrainer with Luis Engel, is a skilled "activist."
Playing styles in chess are an important and thus often discussed topic. GM Dr. Karsten Müller and GM Luis Engel take up a model by GM Lars Bo Hansen based on 4 player types - namely ‘activists’, ‘pragmatics’, ‘theoreticians’ and so-called ‘reflectors’.
Dr. Karsten Mueller loves attacking on the chessboard and gives us a little insight into his Fritztrainer in this interview:
Most players prefer to attack rather than defend. But what is the correct way to do it? GM Dr Karsten Müller has compiled many rules and motifs to guide you, along with sharpening your intuition for the exceptions.
Alle Figuren in den Angriff17.d5‼Der Isolani wird in typischer
Weise als Rammbock eingesetzt, um Zugstraßen für die weißen Figuren zu
öffnen.cxd5?!17...Kf7war immer noch angezeigt. Der weiße Angriff ist
nun aber schon sehr stark:18.dxc6bxc619.Red119.Qc4+!?Qd520.Qg4
ist ebenfalls gefährlich.19...Qe620.Qxe6+Kxe621.Nd4+Kf722.Nxc6
(Kasparov) und Weiß hat gute praktische Gewinnchancen.18.Nd4Kf719.Ne6Rhc8?!das läuft in eine wunderschöne Widerlegung. Schwarz ist allerdings
ohnehin nicht mehr zu retten, z.B.19...Nc620.Nc5Qd621.Nxb7Qd722.Nc5Qd623.Qh5+g624.Qh4Ne525.f4Nc426.b4f527.Re6Qd828.Qh6Nd629.h4Ne430.h5Nxc531.hxg6+Kxe632.Rxc5+-20.Qg4g621.Ng5+Ke822.Rxe7+‼Der fliegende Turm startet sein Reise mit einem Raketenstart.22.Nxh7?Rxc123.Nxf6+Kf724.Rxc1Qe6verkauft den weißen Vorteil dagegen viel zu
billig.22...Kf822...Qxe723.Rxc8++-22...Kxe723.Re1+Kd623...Kd824.Ne6+Ke825.Nc5++-24.Qb4+Rc524...Kc725.Ne6+Kb826.Qf4+Rc727.Nxc7+-25.Re6+Qxe626.Nxe6+-23.Rf7+!Kg824.Rg7+‼
Der fliegende Turm setzt seine Mission einfach fort.24...Kh824...Kf825.Nxh7+Kxg726.Qxd7++-25.Rxh7+und von Bardeleben verließ den
Turniersaal ohne aufzugeben. Später ließ er seine Aufgabe per Kurier
mitteilen. Steinitz zeigt den Zuschauern das verblüffende FinaleKg826.Rg7+Kh827.Qh4+Das zwingt Schwarz seinen Alptraum den Gespensterturm zu
schlagen.Kxg728.Qh7+Kf829.Qh8+Ke730.Qg7+Ke831.Qg8+Ke732.Qf7+Kd832...Kd633.Qxf6+Qe634.Qxe6#33.Qf8+Qe834.Nf7+Kd735.Qd6#
Dieses Meisterwerk war wohl die spektakulärste Partie von Steinitz.1–0
Arne KaehlerArne Kaehler, a creative mind who is passionate about board games in general, was born in Hamburg and learned to play chess at a young age. By teaching chess to youth teams and creating chess-related videos on YouTube, Arne was able to expand this passion and has even created an online course for anyone who wants to learn how to play chess. Arne writes for the English and German news sites, but focuses mainly on content for the ChessBase media channels.
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