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February 18 - 24
Welcome to the USCFSales.com weekly newsletter. You can keep up-to-date with new product releases, read reviews of selected products, and follow the latest news from the U.S. Chess Federation. Plus, try your hand at solving our weekly puzzle. Enjoy! Here & There
at ChessCafe.com Rook with 4 vs. 3
In this month’s Endgame Corner, Karsten Mueller looks at the famous rook endgame with 4 vs. 3 pawns. He deals with cases relatively favorable for the attacker, when the best defensive setup with pawns on f7-g6-h5 is not possible. Purposeful Errors
Dan Heisman examines accidental and purposeful errors in Novice Nook. A purposeful error is when you know you shouldn’t do something and still do it, or fail to do something you know you should, or make the same mistakes over and over, even though you know they are errors. FIDE Forfeitures
FIDE recently decided to automatically forfeit a player if he arrives at the board after the clocks are started. But, as Geurt Gjissen explains, the old rule still applies. A Presidential Board meeting in March will decide which rule will be in force from July 1, 2009. Book Notes  In True Combat Chess, IM Timothy Taylor draws upon his wealth of personal experience to offer an instructive and entertaining account of how to improve your understanding of chess and your results. This book is awash with invaluable advice and helpful tips on all stages of the game. Albert Beauregard Hodges: The Man Chess Made provides an in-depth biography of Hodges’ personal life and chess career. Hodges played an important role in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in transforming chess from a pleasant pastime into a social institution.
In the updated and revised second edition of Let’s Play Chess,
you will find the rules, the logic, some of the culture and history,
and the basic principles of good chess play. Read an excerpt here.
Reviews in Brief |  KARL International Magazine
Edited by Harry Schaack Editor Harry Schaack describes the magazine’s mission. “Each issue of KARL focuses on a main topic and strives to enrich its reader’s lives by giving them in-depth insights from various perspectives. The focus may be on portraits of chess celebrities or traditional tournaments, chess aspects like endgame or defensive, or abstract aspects like chess & random, chess & music, etc… KARL is passionate about the aesthetic quality of the reading experience, ensuring an attractive layout, interesting photography and high gloss quality.” This pilot international edition focuses on the history of the Chess Olympiads that have taken place on German soil, beginning with the Hamburg 1930 event. As Schaack writes in his editorial on page three, “Chess has always been more than just a game. It is a multi-faceted world with cultural, political, personal, psychological, artistic, athletic, social, scientific and sometimes amusing aspects.” And it is this multi-faceted world, beyond the finite sixty-four squares, that KARL International seeks to explore. Read the full review by Steve Goldberg here. | | |
| | | |  Fighting the Anti-King’s Indians
by Yelena Dembo In this book Greek IM Yelena Dembo aims to provide her readers with a complete repertoire against anti-King’s Indian and anti-Gruenfeld systems by covering all white set ups after 1 d4 Nf6, providing that white does not play an early c4. She also discusses move order issues that arise after 1 c4 or 1 Nf3, where White tries to avoid the Gruenfeld, as well as how to handle a King’s Indian set up when White plays c4, but not d4. White’s approaches are divided into four main categories: 1) White plays independently at move two with the Veresov or Trompowsky. 2) White employs a solid set up with an early e3, such as in the London, Torre, and Colle openings. 3) White plays g3 and Bg2, in which case transpositions have greater significance. Dembo also discusses the English and Blackmar-Deimer Gambit as well as various second move alternatives. If you’ve ever floundered against any of these annoying systems, Dembo’s treatise provides you with concrete answers to your dilemma. | | |
| New Catalog Additions 2/16: KARL International Magazine
2/15: New In Chess, 2009/1
2/13: True Combat Chess
2/11: A Positional Opening Repertoire for the Club Player
2/3: Gary’s Adventures in Chess Country
2/1: February Competition Special
2/1: February Scholastic Special
1/31: Albert Beauregard Hodges: The Man Chess Made
1/30: Blindfold Chess
1/29: ABC of the Leningrad Dutch (DVD)
1/28: ABC of the Anti Dutch (DVD)
1/27: Starting Out: d-Pawn Attacks
1/26: Play the Sicilian Kan
1/25: Dangerous Weapons: Flank Openings
1/24: How to Play against 1 e4
1/23: Fighting the Anti-King’s Indians
1/22: The Greatest Ever Chess Tricks and Traps
1/20: Let’s Play Chess
| Weekly Puzzle | | Quote of the Week | | 
White to Move/Solution Below | | The ability to calculate variations has a significant influence on a player’s positional judgement Valeri Beim,
How to Calculate Chess Tactics |
Monthly Specials February 2009  | For the February Competition Special, we are pleased to offer The Berkshire Folding Chess Table for the incredible USCF member price of $495.95! - a savings of $250.00! Regularly priced at $750.00, our quality Berkshire Mahogany & Maple Chessboard, produced by old-world Spanish woodworkers, is matched with a folding formica and maple table crafted by New England artisans. The result is the extraordinary, durable Berkshire Folding Chess Table.
|  | For the February Scholastic Special, we are pleased to offer a great book to improve your tactical skills: The ChessCafe Puzzle Book 1 (CD) by Karsten Mueller for the incredible USCF member price of $9.95! - a savings of $10.00! German grandmaster Karsten Mueller combines clear discussions of tactical themes with over 600 well-chosen positions to test, challenge and teach. Although the classic combinations are not ignored, the great emphasis is on positions from modern tournament practice of the last decade. These Specials of the Month are good from February 1 - February 28, 2009. Orders may be placed online, by mail or by phone. These Specials of the Month may be withdrawn at any time and are good only while supplies last. |
 New at Chess Life Online GM Alexander Onischuk earned a 2800+ performance rating in the Moscow Open, coming out ahead of over 50 GMs. In a CLO exclusive, Onischuk and his student, IM Ray Robson, annotate games from the event. Also, applications are due on March 1, 2009, for the 2009 Scholar Chessplayer Awards. The awards are sponsored by the USCF and the US Chess Trust. Join the USCF Today 
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Puzzle Answer: 27.Nb8! 1-0 Speelman-Short, Hastings 1983 (Source: Starting Out: d-Pawn Attacks) |
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