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(1-877-912-4377) Issue #31
November 18 - 24
Welcome to the ChessCafe.com weekly newsletter. You can keep up-to-date with new product releases, read reviews of selected products, and follow the latest postings at ChessCafe.com. Plus, try your hand at solving our weekly puzzle. Enjoy! Here & There The Last Exchange
Around this time of the year I usually review books, since this is a popular time for buying them. The Use of Tactics
Basic tactic skills should be used to prevent an opponent's tactics, not to find winning tactics for oneself. Time Scrambles
I find it most intriguing that my opponent had a lost position, his flag had fallen first, and yet he wins the game. To Explain or Not to Explain
How much thought goes into deciding on the amount of verbal commentary and variations to present in a Fritz Trainer? Rags to Riches
These days CBM comes with nearly three Gigabytes of high-quality content and a twenty-four page sophisticatedly designed booklet. Kasparov-Karpov, Seville (5), 1987
Today's video features footage from Game 5 of the Kasparov-Karpov world championship match in Seville. Step by Step: Tactics
Designed to improve your basic tactical skills and can be used as a workbook exercise in a classroom setting. Book Notes  Build up your Chess with Artur Yusupov is for chess players who want to build their skills on solid foundations. In 2003 Yusupov began a three-year training program in his chess academy. As Yusupov himself writes in the introduction, "...the overwhelmingly positive comments of my students encouraged me to rework this program in the form of a series of books". The reader will receive the necessary basic knowledge in six areas of the game - tactics, positional play, strategy, the calculation of variations, the opening and the endgame. Volume 1: The Fundamentals consists of twenty-four lessons with a certain theme. Each lesson has a general explanation of the theme (for example 'the pin' or 'stalemate motifs') with a number of examples. In the second part of the lesson students have to solve twelve exercises on the theme. Volume 2: Beyond the Basics, sets off on the road to mastery. Yusupov guides the reader towards a higher level of chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice. This new understanding is then tested by a series of exercises. A substantial and methodical course in which study material is being introduced of progressing difficulty. Volume 3: The Mastery, we arrive at our final destination. Yusupov guides the reader towards a higher level of chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice. This new understanding is then tested by a series of puzzles. Newsletter subscribers who order all three Build Up Your Chess books can save 50% off of Lev Alburt's Building Up Your Chess. Just add the items to your shopping cart and enter the coupon code "build50" (without the quotes) at checkout. This offer is only being made to subscribers and is valid until November 24, 2009.
This week's top seller!
Available now for only $31.95
Running time: 7 hours 21 min.!!
Reviews in Brief |  The Budapest Gambit
by Andrew Martin The Budapest Gambit is an utterly delightful production by IM Andrew Martin and the ChessBase team. Being a 1.e4 player, I was surprised to find myself going back to see the entertaining lectures in this DVD. Before delving into specific variations, Martin begins with five lectures outlying specific themes in the Budapest Gambit, which is characterized by the moves 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5!?. Martin seems to always be thinking about how the moves might be perceived by amateur players, and this is what makes this DVD of high value. I also like the balanced approach Martin took in this video, showing the pros and cons of entering Budapest Gambit lines. Martin is at his best on this DVD. He is cheerful and lively, and enjoys making prolonged eye-contact with the viewer when verbalizing his analysis. He speaks slowly and clearly, often pausing and always showing enthusiasm. One can see he is really enjoying himself and is excited about the games he is presenting. Anyone going through The Budapest Gambit by Martin should be able to play through a grandmaster game in this opening, and understand why many of the moves were played. Read the full review here. Newsletter subscribers who order The Budapest Gambit DVD by IM Andrew Martin and the book The Budapest Gambit by IM Tim Taylor can save $5.00 off their purchase. Just add the items to your shopping cart and enter the coupon code "budapest5" (without the quotes) at checkout. This offer is only being made to subscribers and is valid until November 24, 2009. | | |
| | | New Catalog Additions 11/19 Secrets of Positional Play
11/18 The Scheveningen Sicilian (DVD)
11/16 My System (restock)
11/15 Botvinnik-Bronstein, Moscow 1951 (restock)
11/13 Chess Secrets: Great Attackers (Only $20.95!)
11/12 Chess Secrets: The Giants of Power Play (Only $20.95!)
11/11 Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess, Part Three (Only $32.95!)
11/10 Shirov: My Best Games in the Gruenfeld (DVD)
11/9 Ftacnik: The Gruenfeld Defence (DVD)
11/8 Chess Tips for the Improving Player (Only $9.95!)
11/7 Grandmaster Repertoire: The English Opening (Only $21.95!)
11/6 Champions of the New Millennium (Only $23.95!)
11/5 Fundamental Chess Openings (Only $21.95!)
11/4 Nezhmetdinov's Best Games of Chess (restock)
11/3 Starting Out: The Sicilian (2nd edition)
11/2 The Budapest Gambit (DVD)
11/1 Rybka 3 (ChessBase)
10/31 Secrets of Opening Surprises, Volume 11
10/30 New In Chess Yearbook #92 (hardcover)
10/30 New In Chess Yearbook #92
10/30 New In Chess Yearbook #91
10/29 Scandinavian: The Easy Way, 2nd ed. (DVD)
10/28 The Queen's Gambit Declined Exchange Variation (DVD)
10/27 The Improving Chess Thinker (Heisman)
10/25 Starting Out: The Trompowsky Attack (Palliser)
10/24 Fighting the Ruy Lopez (Pavlovic)
10/23 1...e6: A Solid Repertoire against 1.d4 and 1.e4 (DVD)
10/22 Dangerous Weapons: The Pirc/Modern
10/21 The Complete Hedgehog (Shipov)
10/20 Improve Your Chess (Hansen)
Puzzle Answer: 15.Qxh5 1-0 Svedenborg-Berglund, Norway 1992 (Source: Build Up Your Chess with Artur Yusupov, Volume 1: The Fundamentals)
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