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    Test Your Chess Skills: Practical Decisions in Critical Moments
    Test Your Chess Skills: Practical Decisions in Critical Moments
    Test Your Chess Skills: Practical Decisions in Critical Moments
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    Test Your Chess Skills: Practical Decisions in Critical Moments

    By Sarhan Guliev and Logman Guliev

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    The test positions in this instructive book cover the entire spectrum of what a modern club player should know. The reader is invited to find tactical blows, deep strategic manoeuvres, opening traps, standard endgame plans and other principles in action.

    Sarhan Guliev and his brother Logman Guliev have carefully selected the positions from their own games. That is why these puzzles are completely unknown outside the former Soviet Union. The fact that they originated from real games guarantees that the tests are practical, not artificial. The solutions rarely involve spectacular fireworks, as is the case in most chess puzzle books. The solution may be a quiet move or you may be asked for a reasoned evaluation.

    In the solutions the Guliev brothers clearly explain the underlying ideas and the principles that are involved. They always offer a general conclusion and have added thoughtprovoking and entertaining aphorisms. In addition there are points to earn with every solution, so students can keep track of their development. Solving the puzzles in this unusual and entertaining book is a most effective way to improve your chess. It will help you to develop a vital skill: the ability to take practical decision in critical moments.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew in Chess
    Release dateDec 16, 2018
    ISBN9789056918101
    Test Your Chess Skills: Practical Decisions in Critical Moments
    Author

    Sarhan Guliev

    International Grandmaster and FIDE Senior Coach Sarhan Guliev won the championship of Azerbaijan three times. He is a highly experienced chess teacher, coach and writer.

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