Description of Test, Evaluate and Improve Your Chess (2nd Ed)
This popular book, now in its second edition, is based upon using a series of comprehensive tests to allow the student to learn and improve.
We quote from the introduction: "There are many books which specifically test tactical motifs, in which you have to find all kinds of mates, and which test your ability to find forcing solutions to endgame positions or studies, but few which try to test and expand your knowledge in a holistic way... In this book we will also be concerned with moves, not as ends in themselves, but rather a symbols for concepts or chess knowledge which can be represented by a move, sequence of moves or pattern.Moves can be viewed as steps in a larger procedure which represents a plan or a grand theme. Hence or subtitle: A Knowledge-based Approach."
For more than 20 years, Kopec has been testing and evaluating chessplayers in the U.K., Canada and the U.S. in order to quantify their overall chess strength, their specific deficiencies and definite abilities. This book represents the results of these efforts to help chessplayers understand and acquire the knowledge necessary to achieve chess mastery.
