Test Your Chess

Zenon Franco

• Publisher: Popular Chess
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781781941645

Grandmaster and renowned chess coach Zenón Franco provides a training course designed to help all aspiring players to improve their chess. During each lesson, you are invited to play a 'game' in which you try to find the best moves at all the important moments. Points are awarded for selecting the best moves – and are deducted for selecting blunders! At the end of each lesson there is a points scale to indicate how well you have 'played'. This means you are able to accurately measure your progress as you work through the book. Readers are tested in all aspects of chess: attack, defence, counterattack, tactics, structures, strategy, endgames and so on. Following this interactive course of lessons is an ideal way to improve your game. *A structured course of chess training *Includes 40 deeply annotated exercise games *Ideal for both chess students and trainers

Table of contents

• About the author
• Bibliography
• Introduction
• 1 Attacking the King
• 2 Attack, Defence and Counter-attack
• 3 Positional Play and Typical Structures
• 4 Endings
• Index of Games
• Mikhail Tal vs. Semen Furman, Riga 1955
• Mikhail Tal vs. Istvan Bilek, Miskolc 1963
• Mikhail Tal vs. Bukhuti Gurgenidze, USSR Championship, Alma Ata 1968
• Mikhail Tal vs. Boris Spassky, Tilburg 1980
• Boris Spassky vs. Yasser Seirawan, Zürich 1984
• Peter Leko vs. Rustam Kasimdzhanov, FIDE World Championship, San Luis 2005
• Peter Svidler vs. Sergey Karjakin, Wijk aan Zee 2007
• Peter Leko vs. Boris Gelfand, FIDE Grand Prix, Nalchik 2009
• Sergey Karjakin vs. Boris Gelfand, FIDE World Cup, Khanty-Mansiysk 2009
• Teimour Radjabov vs. Boris Gelfand, Medias 2010
• Zenón Franco Ocampos vs. Julio Granda Zúñiga, Mexico City 2010
• Julio Bolbochán vs. Miguel Najdorf, Argentine Ch’ship (Game 3), Buenos Aires 1949
• Oscar Panno vs. Héctor Rossetto, Rio de Janeiro Zonal 1957
• Mikhail Tal vs. Klaus Darga, USSR-West Germany match, Hamburg 1960
• Oscar Panno vs. Miguel Najdorf, Buenos Aires 1965
• Herman Pilnik vs. Leonid Stein, Mar del Plata 1966
• Milan Matulovic vs. Robert Fischer, Vinkovci 1968
• Magnus Carlsen vs. Alexander Grischuk, Linares 2009
• Levon Aronian vs. Peter Leko, FIDE Grand Prix, Nalchik 2009
• Arkadij Naiditsch vs. Vladimir Kramnik, Dortmund 2009
• Vassily Ivanchuk vs. Evgeny Alekseev, FIDE Grand Prix, Jermuk 2009
• Viswanathan Anand vs. Vladimir Kramnik, Wijk aan Zee 2010
• Sergey Karjakin vs. Magnus Carlsen, Wijk aan Zee 2010
• Miguel Najdorf vs. Reuben Fine, New York (4th matchgame) 1949
• Miguel Najdorf vs. Samuel Reshevsky, Buenos Aires (2nd matchgame) 1953
• Julio Bolbochán vs. Paul Keres, Argentina-USSR match, Buenos Aires 1954
• Miguel Najdorf vs. Bogdan Sliwa, Alekhine Memorial, Moscow 1956
• Herman Pilnik vs. Gideon Stahlberg, Beverwijk 1963
• Miguel Najdorf vs. Kick Langeweg, Wijk aan Zee 1973
• Raúl Sanguineti vs. Elías Miana, Argentine Championship, Buenos Aires 1975
• Miguel Ángel Quinteros vs. Tigran V. Petrosian, Buenos Aires 1979
• Vladimir Kramnik vs. Loek Van Wely, Dortmund 2008
• Vladimir Kramnik vs. Nigel Short, Dresden Olympiad 2008
• Magnus Carlsen vs. Veselin Topalov, Sofia 2009
• Magnus Carlsen vs. Dmitry Jakovenko, Nanjing 2009
• Miguel Najdorf vs. Ludek Pachman, Amsterdam Olympiad 1954
• Magnus Carlsen vs. Viswanathan Anand, Morelia/Linares 2007
• Veselin Topalov vs. Wang Yue, Sofia 2009
• Wang Yue vs. Magnus Carlsen, Medias 2010
• Magnus Carlsen vs. Fabiano Caruana, Sao Paulo/Bilbao 2012