Chess Exam Series, Rate Yourself and learn how to improve!

Evaluation  ---->  Training Plan  ---->  Tournament Participation  ---->  Re-evaluation

Chess Exam and Training Guide, winner of the 2005 Fred Cramer Award (Chess Journalists of America)  for the best chess book!

You will get overall result and a breakdown into the 12 sub-reports: Opening, Middlegame, Endgame, Attack, Defense, Counterattack, Tactics, Strategy, Calculations, Standard Positions (Endgame), Sacrifices, Recognizing Threats.

Chess Exam and Training Guide: Tactics:

* 60 diagrams & 120 total questions of various difficulty
* Comprehensive answers includes diagrams for easy reading away from the chessboard
* Distributions of answers, percentiles and other statistical reports by rating group from unrated to 2400+. Match yourself against players of all levels, up to grandmaster and see how you stock up
* Comprehensive reports on each of the categories with examples, training recommendations and book/materials suggestions

You vs Bobby Fischer:  This new book offers chess fans of all levels a chance to match their wits with the legendary chess champion Bobby Fischer! Khmelnitsky gathers examples from Fischer's games that are educational, and entertaining, and can be studied without a board.

In each of the examples the readers will take the seat of Fischer's opponent and be asked to come up with an assessment and a move. Based on the response they are assigned points towards their rating evaluation and a game score towards their “match.”

International Master Igor Khmelnitsky is a 3-time participant in the exclusive U.S. Chess Championship, a winner of numerous tournaments in Europe and the United States. He is a very experienced chess coach and works with all levels of students.

Khmelnitsky is the author of Chess Exam Training Guide , coauthor of the curriculum Teaching Chess Step by Step (Kasparov Chess Foundation, 2006), and a contributor to the Wall Street Journal best-seller Masters of Success.