![]() ![]() Aagaard also felt that there was a shortage of good books on attacking play –by which he means attacking the King. Good players not only calculate but also have a feeling for what might be possible in a given position, which can be described as intuition. Aagaard felt that the role of intuition had been undervalued in chess writing. The genesis of the book is found in the introduction to volume 1. The volumes are written in a lively manner, which keeps the reader entertained as well as interested. These constitute a substantial work totalling 720 pages in all, excellently laid out and printed. The book is Attacking Chess Volumes 1 and 2 by Jacob Aagaard, published by Quality Chess at £23.99 each. The choice finally fell on a two volume work which had taken the author no less than eight years to write. The judges this year were faced with a particularly difficult choice as all the four books listed had considerable, but differing merits. This is the biggest achievement of my career by far. The reason why I did not originally write this project for Everyman despite a very nice offer, but set up Quality Chess instead, was that I wanted it to be perfect – and that I wanted to win this prize. I am proud to have won the 2010 ECF Book of the Year award for Attacking Manual 1 – 2nd edition and Attacking Manual 2.
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