Test Your Positional Play (Macmillan Library of Chess)

Designed to improve a player's middlegame performance by analyzing the strategic and tactical elements of a position, these tests also explain how to form a plan and to check that is it sound. Over 100 positions test the reader's ability to formulate the correct plan using a multiple choice format. This thought-provoking work provides a unique method of improving strategic understanding through self-evaluation.

Beginner

Test Your Positional Play (Macmillan Library of Chess)

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Test Your Chess Iq, Book 2 (Pergamon Russian Chess Series) (Bk. 2)

Is the ability to make combinations something you are born with or can it be acquired by practice? Soviet chess trainer Livshitz, who has had extensive experience of teaching a wide range of players from novices to masters, presents here a course for developing your combinational skill, based on the recognition of combinational themes. As you work your way through this carefully graded series of tests, themes such as 'diversion', 'interference', `X-ray' and many more will become an integral part of your chess armoury, to be employed in your own games. Solving these positions will not only provide many hours of pleasure but will also enable you to test - andimprovel - your chess IQ.

Test Your Chess Iq, Book 2 (Pergamon Russian Chess Series) (Bk. 2)

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Test Your Chess Piece Power

Test Your Chess Piece Power

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