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CHESSOPS SIGHT TESTS

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INTRO & QUESTION INDEX

Review your familiarity of opening positions
by trying some of the 100 tests below!
Each page shows one of five boards at random.
The pages also become progressively less easy!
Stop anytime - links to board-analysis are included.

LAUNCHED JAN 2003 - - - • = Added or revised in last 30 days

• JUN 2004: Added TELL and OVERALL SCORES facilities.
• JUL 2004: Added SECTION SUB-SCORE pages.
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Section 1: BOARD BASICS
No.1A - Ready... Get Set... Check!
No.1B - How Many Squares?
No.1C - Just How Many Pawns?
No.1D - Algebraic Notation
No.1E - Descriptive Notation
No.1F - Note These Squares!
No.1G - Forsyth Notation
No.1H - Some Attack/Defence Systems

Section 2: BEGINNING PLAY
No.2A - Popular First Moves
No.2B - Irregular (ie. Unusual) Starts
No.2C - General Descriptions Of Play
No.2D - Past European Developments
No.2E - The Shape Of Things To Come?
No.2F - Centering In On Pawn Formations
No.2G - One or Two Horsemen
No.2H - A Variety Of Bishops

Section 3: KING AND CENTRE
No.3A - Stepping Along The Dorsal Fin
No.3B - Popular KP Open Games
No.3C - More Regular KP Open Games
No.3D - Regular Semi-Open KP Games
No.3E - Berlin Defences (..Kt-KB3 vs. KP)
No.3F - Early Centre Pawn Challenges
No.3G - PxP -Which One Went Where?
No.3H - So What If 2.P-K4 Is Played Next?

Section 4: KING'S PAWN & GAMBIT
No.4A - Famous KP Opening Gambits
No.4B - Infamous Opening Gambits!
No.4C - Transposed Openings
No.4D - Stepping Into A King's Gambit
No.4E - KGA - No KKt Gambit To Follow?
No.4F - More Early KGA/KGD Responses
No.4G - Classical KGA Lines After 3..P-Kt4
No.4H - KGA: Other Gambits After 3..P-Kt4

Section 5: THE SPANISH MAIN
No.5A - To Ruy or Not to Ruy...
No.5B - Answering The Ruy Lopez
No.5C - Morphy Alternatives To 4..Kt-B3
No.5D - Morphy Divisions After 4..Kt-B3
No.5E - Ruy - After Five In The Morphy
No.5F - Open Morphy - Given Nine Moves
No.5G - Close Morphy - After Six Moves
No.5H - Close Morphy - Given Nine Moves

Section 6: OTHER KP COUNTRIES
No.6A - Avoiding The Giuoco?
No.6B - Talking Italian Piano
No.6C - Evans Gambit Accepted Lines
No.6D - Replies To The Two Knights' Defence
No.6E - Attacking The Two Knights' Defence
No.6F - Five Four Knights' Games
No.6G - The Early Vienna Games
No.6H - Scotch Games After 3..PxP

Section 7: QUEEN'S PAWN & GAMBIT
No.7A - Gambits With The QP
No.7B - Meeting The Queen's Gambit
No.7C - Non-Orthodox Queen's Gambit?
No.7D - More "Orthodox" QGD Alternatives
No.7E - Even More "Orthodox" QGD Trails
No.7F - Last "Orthodox" QGD Hurdles
No.7G - QGD Slav, Semi-Slav And Tarrasch
No.7H - Queen's Pawn Game Lines

Section 8: INDIAN TERRITORIES
No.8A - Some QP Flank Defences
No.8B - Indian Systems Of Defence
No.8C - The King's Indian Defence
No.8D - More Of The King's Indian
No.8E - Grunfeld Def. Fencing
No.8F - So What If 2..P-KKt3?
No.8G - And What If 2..P-QKt3?
No.8H - The Nimzo-Indian Defence

Section 9: SEMI-CLOSE TO DUTCH
No.9A - Franco-Indian 1.d4 e6 2.c4 Routes
No.9B - The Dutch Defence - Early Lines
No.9C - Dutch Defence - Later Lines
No.9D - Staunton Gambit Goings-On
No.9E - More Side Defences To 1.P-Q4
No.9F - Budapest Defence Directions
No.9G - Torre and Trompowsky Bishops

Section 10: THE SEMI-OPEN HALF
No.10A - The Centre and Semi-Open Games
No.10B - The French - Vive La Difference!
No.10C - French Defence - Main Lines
No.10D - French Defence - Early Variants
No.10E - The Early Caro-Kann
No.10F - Main Caro-Kann Directions
No.10G - Alekhine D: The Knight's Tour
No.10H - Alekhine Defence - In The Main

Section 11: THE SICILIAN THING
No.11A - Sicilian Defence - Yea or Nay?
No.11B - Sicilian Defence - What's Happening?
No.11C - Main Sicilian - Mainly What?
No.11D - Main Sicilian - Five 5th Moves
No.11E - In The Najdorf, After Six
No.11F - Sicilian - The Richter-Rauzer Attack(s)
No.11G - Sicilian - Outside The Main

Section 12: THE ENGLISH AND RETI
No.12A - English Opening Defences
No.12B - Converting The English
No.12C - English Opening - Early Lines
No.12D - English - Four Knights' Paths
No.12E - Reti Opening - The Gambit Answered
No.12F - The Catalan And Similar Systems
No.12G - Deeper In The Catalan Regions

Section 13: BEWARE - ODDS & ENDS!
No.13A - Riding On The Dorsal Fin
No.13B - Gammy Bits With 3..P-B4
No.13C - Early Primates
No.13D - A Small Zoo (Pets Corner)
No.13E - A Medium Zoo (Things With Flaps)
No.13F - A Big Menagerie
No.13G - Noah's Ark And Other Traps
No.13H - Poisoned Pawns

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