The test helped you to identify an overall rating as well as to break it down into 12 additional categories - Opening - Middlegame-Endgame; Attack-Defense-Counterattack; Tactics-Strategy-Calculation; Standard Endgame, Sacrifice, Threats. In addition to having the rating estimates,  you got tips on how to improve your skills along with the book and software recommendations.

Now comes the next test in which will look in greater detail in one of the 12 categories - TACTICS.

Tactics should be the most important part of your preparation. The old cliché says - "Chess is 90% Tactics." Tactical operations can change the situation in a dramatic fashion no matter what stage of the game it is (Opening vs. Middlegame vs. Endgame), what the dynamics of the position (Attacking vs. Defending).

In this new test, you will answer 120 questions (60 diagrams / 2 questions each) and then you will get your Tactical profile with the 30 Ratings and other stats.

Question	Answer and Stats	Tactical Profile

Here is the sample of your Tactical ratings that the tool will calculate -

• Winning vs. Draw;

• Opening vs. Middlegame vs. Endgame;

• Attacking vs. Defending;

• Promote a Pawn, Reaching Standard Endgames, etc…;

• Deflection, Attraction etc…

See actual Rating Summary of one of my students - rated approx. 1650.

The tool is available in two versions - Excel (recommended) or, if you don't have Excel, Acrobat.pdf.

You download the file - IK-test-tactics.xls (1.8MB). Save it into your Hard Drive.

Read the Instructions tab. Fill in the Information tab. Go to the Test tab and answer first 5 questions, they are fully functional. See screen shots above.

Make a payment ($9.95 or $14.95) to get the upgrade. I will send you password via e-mail. Answer all of the questions and get your ratings on the Rating Summary  tab.

Please note that I offer no tech support. Before purchasing any of the upgrades use the demo and answer the first 5 questions. So far, I got no complains. There are no macros in this tool.

Purchase details and specials (you get a lot of freebies) are below.

You make a full payment

You will get *.pdf with with 60 questions (Sample with questions 1-5- IK-Test-Tactics-Questions-DEMO.pdf) 

You will get *.pdf with with answers, points and statistics for each of the 60 questions (Sample with Answers 1-5- IK-Test-Tactics-Answers-DEMO.pdf)

You will answer all of the questions and record your answers in this file (Answer.txt)

Next, you will e-mail Answer.txt to me via this e-mail .

I will run your answers through the model and send you this Rating Summary 

Because I have to be involved in the process - receiving your file, running the model, producing your summary and e-mailing it to you, the fee for this process is slightly higher than for Excel version.

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Excel: 

Password will be e-mailed. No refunds, so run it as a demo first. Free extras - see below.