Loading ...Understand The Position 36: “Test”
GM Ján Markoš | March 26, 2012 – 14:183 Comments | 1,758 views
Did you read the series “Understand The Position” carefully? Test yourself! The correct answers are to be found in the previous parts of this series.
Translated by: Dusan Turcer
Understand The Position: Test
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| Question 1 |
| a good attacker and a bad defender | |
| a good defender and a bad attacker | |
| just as good defender as attacker | |
| great midfielder |
| Question 2 |
| the pawn structure b7-c6-d5-e6-f7, which is typical for the Semi-Slav Defense | |
| a typical position of bishops and rooks before the attack | |
| king maneuver which gets to the same position but the opponent has to move | |
| fianchetto |
| Question 3 |
| players drank lots of wine last night | |
| previous course of the game was very dynamic | |
| previous course of the game was of strategic nature | |
| both players try to weaken each other psychologically |
| Question 4 |
| in the opening | |
| in the opening and middle game | |
| only in the endgame | |
| in technical positions only |
| Question 5 |
| the analysis, which isn't a strong stuff, ie. bad analysis | |
| the analysis performed without help of a computer, and so "retro" | |
| the analysis, which aims to recognize the opponent's threats first | |
| the analysis, which aims to determine the previous course of the game |
| Question 6 |
| to play strategically like a Grand Master | |
| to recognize the fortress in chess | |
| to calculate | |
| to play technical positions with patience |
| Question 7 |
| the fact that pieces which are defending the weakness are also becoming the objects of attack | |
| the pawn phalanx, which rolls like an epidemic plague | |
| the fact that our play gets usually weaker after we play against weaker opponents | |
| bacteria cumulating on the plush undersides of chess pieces |
| Question 8 |
| the series of quick consecutive exchanges | |
| bishops, because they reflect the corners of the chessboard like a billiard ball | |
| rooks, because they roll down the files as a ball roles into the hole | |
| his obese opponents |
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Good idea. I will try to remember to do this, and feel free to remnid me if I lapse back into using ECF only. I have Mueller & Lamprecht’s FCE, which I was intending to read after Dvoretsky. Ditching Dvoretsky is rather controversial!