Multiple Choice Chess

By Graeme Buckley

Together in one volume for the first time are Graeme Buckley's Multiple Choice Chess and Multiple Choice Chess Volume Two. Are you realising your chess potential? Multiple Choice Chess International Master Graeme Buckley helps you to find out. Through a series of instructive games where you must work out the next move and the tactics and strategies surrounding it, you can assess your own chess strength. In his second volume, Buckley repeatedly poses the question 'What would you do here?' The reader is invited to step into a grandmaster's shoes, work out all the relevant tactics and strategies of the game and select a move out of a possible four choices. A scoring system has been devised which can assess your playing strength according to the answers you give. It's as simple as that

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781944695
• ISBN13: 9781781944691
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Everyman Chess
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Fun Approach to Studying GM Games

I love this format. When I just read an annotated game (for example, from Neil McDonald's Logical Chess), I can coast along. Being confronted with a choice *every move*, OTOH, requires me to really work hard. I think there is much greater learning value when I perform my analysis, make my choice, then see how it compares with the actual GM move. There are diagrams every 2 - 3 moves (4 - 6 ply), so you may be able to work through the book without using a board. I'm rated about 1900 on FICS, and I haven't needed a board at all. The target audience for this book is probably 1200-1800 ELO, although I think it can still provide value up to 2000 ELO. The book does have some minor flaws: * Some typos have left me scratching my head. A certain reply is supposed to refute choice B, for example, but it's illegal! Ponder long enough, and you might figure out that he meant Rc1+ instead of Rb1+. * The analysis can be somewhat shallow. Some interesting lines are not considered, and occasionally the reason the winning GM chose a move doesn't hold water. (Then you look more deeply, and work out the real reason.) All in all, a worthwhile investment of time.