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How Good Is Your Chess?

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Larry Evans presents truly unusual concept of self assessment.
He selected 100 fantastic positions from the best tournaments and asks to choose one of three possible moves for each of them. Great fun and lessons for any advanced player. You will laugh it out loudly when you discover falling right into the trap (bad move),exactly as Masters did. Do not hesitate and grab this set of puzzles now!

This is an excellent chess puzzle book, but be warned: if you already have Test Your Chess IQ, then you don't need to buy this one as they are identical.

This is an awesome book. It's very straight forward...100 different positions from REAL GAMES, each with three options. You must decide the best move. The logic behind the best answer, in addition to the two inferior answers, are explained. The positions span across openings, midgames, and endgames. Each correct answer is worth 25 Elo rating points so you can get a rough estimate of your chess rating.

This book is for a chess player who knows the rules and basic theory, but needs to hone their calculation and analysis skills. It is helping me calculate deeper and put more thought into my moves. This book is a great value for the price.

This book is intending to rate your performance in 100 tactical posiitons. Most of them have a trick associated with the solution. These are tricks that the worlds best tacticians overlooked, and I am supposed to know them?? Zero points are awarded for the move the GM chose. Often these are equally as good moves that go on to win the game, yet they recieve no credit. If you enjoy very tricky puzzles then grab this book. I scored 1400 yet have a USCF of 1900 so the ratings are dreadfully off.