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Book Notes  Grandmaster Simon Williams, the world's leading exponent of The Classical Dutch, introduces his debut DVD, The Killer Dutch, where the viewer explores the spectrum of exciting opportunities that Black will encounter when playing this opening. With a running time of 6.5 hours, this innovative chess tutorial DVD is serious value for money. Follow Simon as he introduces the main ideas and theory behind The Classical Dutch. Plus, you can view a video preview in our shop! Squeezing the Gambits: The Benko, Budapest, Albin, and Blumenfeld aims to teach you how to put Black into a positional squeeze in the most popular gambits against 1.d4. It offers a White repertoire based on understanding and not on memorization of long variations. Georgiev preaches a solid strategic approach that allows to decrease the role of computer assisted home analysis and will serve you for many years.
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Reviews in Brief |  Open Files
by Wolfgang Uhlmann and Gerhard Schmidt The story of this book may already be well-known: how Uhlmann and Schmidt wrote a classic work on the strategy of exploiting the open file, only to have the book buried in obscurity when Schmidt defected from the former East Germany. Now it's a boon for Edition Olms, the specialty publisher who now brings this neglected masterpiece to a broad public. And I hope Wolfgang Uhlmann, now seventy-five-years old, can enjoy some of the acclaim he deserves for writing this book. The title is the best description of the contents: this is a learned treatise, a dissertation, on the creation, use, transformation of, and fight against open files in chess. In a brief introduction the authors explain their choice of topic by quoting Alexander Kotov. Chess masters, they assert, possess neither astounding calculating abilities nor exceptional memories. Rather, chess masters have become familiar with a number of typical positions and themes, know how to evaluate these positions and themes in combination with each other, and have learned basic plans associated with each of the above. They mention several other such typical themes, including doubled pawns, the bishop pair, and a space advantage, then state that they chose to write about the open file because, although it occurs frequently, amateur chess players typically also have problems with the correct deployment of rooks. Thus, this book is intended to be a complete training manual to the open file, as well as a mostly-complete training manual on the use of the rooks in the middlegame. So although the student of the game can get a good idea of the strategy and tactics of the use of rooks from other books, this appears to be the most complete presentation of the ways in which the chess master uses rooks in the middlegame. An excellent source of ideas and good study material for the serious student of the game. Read the full review here. ChessCafe.com customers who order Open Files, along with Chess Secrets: The Giants of Strategy, can receive an extra 15% ($7.50) off our already low price. Just add the items to your cart and enter the coupon code "uhlmann75" (without the quotes) at checkout. This offer is valid until April 6, 2010. | | |
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Puzzle Answer: 35...Rxf3 0-1 In view of 36.Kxf3 Qxd5+ followed by 37...Qxb5. Strauss-Gurevich, USA 1985 (Source: Play the Sicilian Kan)
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