Test Your Chess Skills by Guliev and Guliev

Test Your Chess Skills: Practical Decisions in Critical Moments
by Sarhan Guliev and Logman Guliev

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 — largely unknown outside the former Soviet Union. Because the tests originate from real games, they are practical, not artificial. The solutions rarely involve spectacular fireworks; instead, you may be asked to find a quiet move or a reasoned evaluation.

In the solutions the Guliev brothers clearly explain the underlying ideas and principles, always offering a general conclusion alongside thought-provoking and entertaining aphorisms. Solving the puzzles in this unusual book develops a vital skill: the ability to make practical decisions in critical moments.

ISBN: 9789056918095, Paperback, 180 pages, New in Chess