If you are not an attacking chess player then you will not become a stronger player, because all the strong players in the world have a deadly weapon and its called ” Attack “.

So you must learn and become fearless on the chessboard.

So are you ready to learn attacking chess? Let’s start.

There are many indicators that show us when to start an attack on our opponent’s king. We will answer each of them one by one. So in this post, you will learn about how to attack the uncastled king. (A king which is not castled yet).

There are 2 things you need to know about the uncastled king.

F7 or F2 E- File

You just need to remember these two points when your opponent’s king is in the centre.

F7 or F2

In the opening phase in chess, these are the weakest squares around the king, so if you see an opportunity to attack f7 or f2 even at cost of the piece, you must sacrifice because that is the time to win in few moves. we will see examples of f7 or f2 later.

Open the E- file

The second thing is to open the e file. Because the king is located in e file and it’s logical to attacking the king we must open e file in any cost if the king is not castled. extra tip is that you must place rook or the queen in e file in order to make it more precise. For example here is the game, when the black king remained in the centre and white opened the e-file. You can go directly on move 20th of the game or watch a whole game. The plan is cleared from move 20th.

[Event "Moscow"] [Site "Moscow"] [Date "1943.12.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Ravinsky, Grigory Ionovich"] [Black "Panov, Vasily N"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "B80"] [PlyCount "71"] [EventDate "1943.??.??"] [EventType "tourn"] [EventRounds "16"] [EventCountry "URS"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. g3 Nc6 7. Bg2 Bd7 8. O-O a6 9. Be3 Rc8 10. Qe2 b5 11. a3 Ne5 12. Rad1 Nc4 13. Bc1 Nxa3 14. e5 dxe5 15. Nc6 Qc7 16. Nxe5 Nc4 17. Nxd7 Nxd7 18. Nd5 Qa7 19. Nf4 Nce5 20. Rxd7 Nxd7 21. Nxe6 fxe6 22. Qxe6+ Be7 23. Re1 Qc5 24. b4 Nf8 25. Qg4 Qc3 26. Rxe7+ Kxe7 27. Bg5+ Kd6 28. Qd1+ Kc7 29. Bf4+ Kb6 30. Qd6+ Ka7 31. Qe7+ Rc7 32. Bxc7 Qa1+ 33. Bf1 Ng6 34. Qc5+ Kb7 35. Ba5 Rf8 36. Qb6+ 1-0 You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.

Here is one more example of attacking in E-File from classic chess.

[Event "Hastings"] [Site "Hastings"] [Date "1895.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Steinitz"] [Black "Von Bardeleben"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C54"] [PlyCount "49"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d4 exd4 6. cxd4 Bb4+ 7. Nc3 d5 8. exd5 Nxd5 9. O-O Be6 10. Bg5 Be7 11. Bxd5 Bxd5 12. Nxd5 Qxd5 13. Bxe7 Nxe7 14. Re1 f6 15. Qe2 Qd7 16. Rac1 c6 17. d5 cxd5 18. Nd4 Kf7 19. Ne6 Rhc8 20. Qg4 g6 21. Ng5+ Ke8 22. Rxe7+ Kf8 23. Rf7+ Kg8 24. Rg7+ Kh8 25. Rxh7+ 1-0 You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.

As you know that in the opening, weakest square near king is F7 or F2. So it’s logical to keep an eye on these squares. here are blow some example games which shows how the attack began at f7 or f2. Let’s watch these games.

[Event "Warsaw OL"] [Site "Warsaw"] [Date "1935.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Keres"] [Black "Winter"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "B29"] [PlyCount "37"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. e5 Nd5 4. Nc3 e6 5. Nxd5 exd5 6. d4 d6 7. Bg5 Qa5+ 8. c3 cxd4 9. Bd3 dxc3 10. O-O cxb2 11. Rb1 dxe5 12. Nxe5 Bd6 13. Nxf7 Kxf7 14. Qh5+ g6 15. Bxg6+ hxg6 16. Qxh8 Bf5 17. Rfe1 Be4 18. Rxe4 dxe4 19. Qf6+ 1-0 You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.

Conclusion

So what you learned in this post? You learned two things, 1 is to keep an eye on f7 or f2 square. And the second is you must open e-file and place a rook or queen on it.

Helpful Link: https://www.chessonly.com/weak-squares-in-chess/