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Test Your Chess IQ Book 2. A. Livshitz. Translated by K. P. Neat. Pergamon Press. First edition 1981. Second edition 1989.
One of the first examples of the since world-renowned Soviet School of Chess training methods to be published abroad, as part of the Pergamon "Russian Chess" series, which brought many little-known Russian chess books to an English-speaking audience.
Livshitz presents 448 positions, arranged by type and sorted into 56 lessons of 8 positions each. Each type is spread over several consecutive lessons, which become progressively more difficult. There are the same themes in the same order as Book One.
The second edition has since been republished by Cadogan (Pergamon having gone out of business with the collapse of the "Maxwell Empire"), as far as I am aware without change save for the addition of the subtitle "Master Challenge". Cadogan have also republished Book 1 (q.v.), subtitled "First Challenge"; and I think they commisioned Livshitz to write a third volume, "Grandmaster Challenge". I have looked through this Book 3 in a shop, but didn't buy it as I found the diagrams the worst I had ever seen. Cadogan, by the way, are now called Everyman Chess.
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