Teel: aT WSSU how players (le Ok TL} PaO ee] a Me Ld EVERYMAN CHESS “’Acoe AAaGAARDCopyrighted Material First published in 2004 by Gloucester Publishers ple (formerly Everyman Publishers ple), Northburgh House, 10 Northburgh Street, London ECT OAT Copyright © 2004 Jacob Aagaard. ‘The right of Jacob Aagaard to be identified as the author of this work has been as serted in accordance with the Copyrights, Designs and Patents Act L988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication m: system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, electrostan tape, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of the publisher, \ be reproduced, stored in a retrieval , Magneuc British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data rd for this book is available trom the British | ibrary A catalogue re ISBN 1 85744 357 8 Distributed in North America by The Globe Pequot Press, P.O Box 480, 246 Goose Lane, Guilford, CT 064374480. All other sales enquiries should be directed to Everyman Chess, Northburgh House, 10 Northburgh Street, London ECLV OAT tel: 020 7253 THR87 fax: 0207490 3708 email: info@everymanche: website: www.everymanehe com com Lveryman is the registered trade mark of Random House Inc. and is used in this work under license fram Random House Inc EVERYMAN CHESS SERIES (formerly Chief advisor: Garry Kasparov Commissioning editor: Byron Jacobs logan Chess) ‘Typeset and edited by First Rank Publishing, Brighton. Cover design by Horatio Monteverde. Production by Navigator Guides, Printed and bound in the United States by Versa Pre: Copyrighted MaterialCopyrighted Material CONTENTS Introduction 1 The Test Positions 2 ‘The Participants 3. Test Position 1 4 Test Position 2 Test Position 3 6 — Test Position 4 7 ‘Test Position 5 8 Test Position 6 est Position 7 10 Test Position 8 t Position 9 est Position 10 13 What can we learn from the Tests? Copyrighted Material Wy 29 39 50 60