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Mark Dvoretsky - Chess Tests: Reinforce Key Skills and Knowledge (K-5755)
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Mark Dvoretsky (1947-2016) is considered one of the greatest chess instructors in the modern era. He left behind a great legacy of many books and publications. At the time of his passing, there were two unpublished manuscripts he had finished (and one other co-authored with study composer Oleg Pervakov).
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| Language versions | English |
| Author / Authors | Mark Dvoretsky |
| Publisher | Russel Enterprises |
| Year of Publication | 1st edition 2019 |
| Pages | 208 |
| ISBN | 9781949859041 |
| Hardcover | No |
| Paperback | Yes |
| Downloadable | No |
| Width | 15.1 cm |
| Height | 22.8 cm |
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From the Foreword by Artur Yusupov:
Chess Tests offers chessplayers material of very high quality for working on various themes, from training combinative vision to techniques of realizing advantages. I recommend using those materials for in-depth work in the directions mentioned in the book. If you follow this advice, then this volume will become a valuable addition to your chess studies and will help you reinforce skills and knowledge you have already obtained.
And here is probably the most important point. Dvoretsky wanted to write a book that would not only teach some intricacies of chess, but would also be simply a pleasure to read for aficionados of the game, so he tried to amass the ‘tastiest’ of examples here. I hope that this last book by him is going to achieve this, presenting its readers with many chess discoveries and joy of communication with the great coach and author.
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Content
005 Signs & Symbols
006 Foreword by Grandmaster Artur Yusupov
009 Chapter 1 Training Combinational Vision
010 Fantasy #1
011 Fantasy #2
012 Tasty Tactics #1
013 Tasty Tactics #2
014 Tasty Tactics #3
015 Tasty Tactics #4
016 Tasty Tactics #5
017 Chapter 2 Candidate Moves
019 Candidate Moves # 1
020 Candidate Moves # 2
021 Candidate Moves # 3
022 Accidental Tactics
025 Profound Quiet Moves
027 Chapter 3 Calculating Variations
028 Tactics
029 Paying Attention to Opponent’s Counterchances
030 Intermediate Moves
031 Chapter 4 Attack and Defense
032 Attack #1
033 Attack #2
034 Defense #1
035 Defense #2
036 Attack and Defense
037 Chapter 5 Positional Play
038 Positional Test
039 Prophylactic Thinking #1
040 Prophylactic Thinking #2
041 Prophylactic Thinking #3
043 Exchanging Queens #1
044 Exchanging Queens #2
045 A Principle of the Worst Piece
046 Miscellanea
048 Chapter 6 Realizing an Advantage
050 Technique #1
051 Technique #2
052 Technique #3
053 Technique #4
054 Chapter 7 Endgame Tests
055 Endgame Ideas
056 Skillful Rook Play
057 Rook Endgame: A Balance on One Flank and an Extra Pawn on the Opposite One
058 Endgames with Bishops of Opposite Colors
060 Transition to a Pawn Endgame
061 Reserve Tempi in Pawn Endgames
062 Complicated Calculations in Pawn Endgames
063 Solutions