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Take the Chess Aptitude Test and Find Out How Good You are in ChessTest Your Chess GameYour skills will be proven with the self-test written by chess grandmaster Jonathan Levitt. You can find out more about this test in his book, "Genius in Chess." Chess Board SetupPrior to taking this test, you may need to learn how to study the diagram of a chessboard using algebraic notation. Seasoned chess players can disregard the issue of chess notation and just go to the actual test. Based on algebraic chess notation, each row of the chess board is labeled with a number from one to eight, starting with white's side. Each column is given a letter from a thru h, beginning from left all the way to the right from white's side. A square, which is where a row and column would meet, is described by a combination of a number and a letter. Thus, a8 would be the designation of the top leftmost square on the side of the white player. As you will see from the illustration on my webpage mentioned above, the topmost square, farthest to the right is a1. My chess tips site contains an image of a chessboard with the algebraic notation. You have to scroll to the bottom and click on the resources link to access the illustration.Things you need for the test: 1. chessboard 2. timer or clock 3. 1 white knight 4. 1 black queen. Objective The objective of the exam is to move the knight to all the squares except those where it can be captured by the queen. Rules You need to position the white knight on b1 and the black queen on d4. The white knight must move in this order: c1, e1, f1, h1, a2, c2, e2, g2, h2, and so on until it reaches g8. The knight can visit again a certain square without following the order but only, for example, if it is needed to get from c1 to e1 and then you have to return to the sequence. You have to do the test once only, although you might want to try this again only to test how your speed will get better. According to the author, Jonathan Levitt, you have "real chess talent" if you can finish the test in ten minutes or less. Enormous concentration, a know-how of the algebraic notation, and the motivation to be successful are some of the things you need to complete the test at improved rate. Others have given up after the first stage, because it takes nine steps. I have given the answer to the test to help you evaluate yourself. The answer is located in my chess game strategies site. You would have to click on the resources link to view it. The results, shown in seconds, of some of the best chess players in the world are shown in the site too. So I guess it is now time to get up, pick up your chessboard, and give this exam a try. You know what they say, there's no harm in trying. If it takes you longer than ten minutes, don't despair...the exam requires you to be able to strategically think about the board, not just memorize moves. I know there are some people who would just memorize each and every move in chess. They are merely taking the exam for the heck of it and not to really learn chess. You have to have a plan to have a real chess aptitude. Your plan has to adjust to each and every game. Like in every game or sports, you need to learn from experience and practice, practice, practice. Biography: Chad Kimball has been mastering the game of chess since he was a young child, and is now an editor as well as a publisher, publishing chess instruction books and courses on the world wide web. He is responsible for uploading an exciting resource to the world wide web: "The Grandmaster Strategy Video Training Library." This wonderful training library has twenty-nine training videos, fourteen training e-books, and some bonus items. You can obtain all these just for the price of one chess book that you can purchase at your local bookstore. Defeating any challengers on the chessboard is just a few clicks away. There is more information found in the chess tips resource |
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