This Week at ChessCafe.com: The Secret

To make sure you receive these e-mails in your Inbox (and not a junk folder), please add "info@chesscafe.com" to your address book or safe sender list. This week's coupon code is "secret10". See below for details... Sale ends Tuesday, August 10, 2010. Enjoy great savings on these fine products and more: Blindfold Chess (Hardcover) Chess for Success Developing Chess Talent Genius in the Background Moral Victories Three Days with Bobby Fischer and other chess essays This Week at ChessCafe.com The Openings Explained The opening for this month is the Alekhine Four Pawns Attack. Special Circumstances Reviews of Chess Informant #107, The Modern Philidor Defence, and more. The Secret The world of Irregular Openings offers something completely different. Deep Rybka 4 Aquarium Designed for digging deep into the finest details of a game. Once is Enough An excerpt from Who is the Champion of Champions?. Evans Gambit Today's video includes a match of Bobby Fischer's. Book Notes It's no secret why the London System is such a popular opening, especially at club level. White's development plan is very easy to learn, and it can be employed against virtually any defence. What's more, depending on mood, style or opponent, White can choose either to attack directly or to instigate a more positional strategy. Many players admit they hate facing the London System, which is surely another good reason to play it! In Play the London System, Cyrus Lakdawala presents a reliable repertoire for White with the London System. Using illustrative games and drawing upon his vast experience in the opening, Lakdawala reveals all his secrets and explains in detail the typical plans and tactics for both sides. This book tells you everything you need to know about the London System. Secrets of Opening Surprises, Vol. 12 brings you a wide variety of unusual opening ideas. They may seem outrageous at first sight, but have proven to be perfectly playable. An SOS deviates very early from the regular lines in a mainstream opening, usually even before move six! That is why it is so easy to actually bring the variation on the board. You will baffle your opponent without having studied large quantities of stuffy theory. Plus, buy any three volumes of Secrets of Opening Surprises and receive a fourth at 50% off!  We are pleased to offer ChessCafe.com customers the opportunity to save an extra ten percent off our already low price on Secret Notes, by David Bronstein and Sergey Voronkov. Simply add the item to your shopping cart and, during the checkout process, enter the coupon code "secret10" (without the quotes) to receive an additional ten percent discount! This offer expires August 10, 2010 or while supplies last. Weekly Puzzle Quote of the Week Black to Move/Solution Below Chess has become an easy game, a kind of sinecure. David Bronstein Secret Notes Reviews in Brief Deep Rybka 4 Aquarium by Convekta Deep Rybka 4 Aquarium is a complete and fully integrated chess program that operates on all Windows multi- and single-processor computers. It consists of an up-to-date Windows-based graphical user interface (GUI), an advanced database handler, and the strongest chess engine in the world. Also included is a bonus DVD, Openings Encyclopedia 2010. This is a good and cutting-edge opening database that contains more than 8,000 annotations from GM Kalinin and 500,000 evaluations of positions. Interactive Deep Analysis (IDeA) is a deep analysis option unique to Rybka 4. It is similar to advanced workshop where you can have different analysis projects in progress. The purpose of IDeA is to dig deeply into a position and return as much information about it as possible. IDeA keeps its analysis in a tree structure that is unlimited in size and the user can browse at will, even while the analysis is in progress. Compared to Deep Rybka 3 this new version is much better. It analyzes much faster, it is more active and aggressive, and it handles endgames better than before. If you want the best opening book for this program, it is sold separately as the Rybka 4 Opening Book. It integrates with this program automatically when installed. Order Deep Rybka 4 Aquarium and receive a free gift of Chess Databases 2008! Offer expires Tuesday, August 10. Read the full review here. 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(Hardcover) 7/15 ChessCafe Puzzle Book 3 7/14 Chess Informant #107 (Book) 7/14 Chess Informant #107 (CD) 7/14 Chess Informant #107 (Book + CD) 7/13 ECO A {4th ed.} (reprint) 7/13 ECO B {4th ed.} (reprint) 7/12 Chess Combinations for Club Players (CD) 7/12 Elementary Chess Combinations (CD) 7/11 Botvinnik's Best Games, Vol. 2 (restock) 7/11 Botvinnik's Best Games, Vol. 3 (restock) 7/10 Chess Endgames 5, Endgame Principles, Activity & Initiative (DVD) 7/9 Nunn's Chess Endings, Vol. 1 7/8 Dangerous Weapons: The French (Ebook) 7/7 Shirov: Guide to the Tkachiev Ruy Lopez (DVD) 7/5 Chess Tactics Level 1 (CD) 7/5 Chess Tactics Level 2 (CD) Puzzle Answer: 19...Kb4 Ra4+!! 20.Kxa4 Ra8+ 21.Kb4 Bf8+ 22.Kc4 b5+ 0-1 Keres -Bronstein, Zurich 1965 If (23.Kd5 (23.Kxd4 Rd8#) 23...Rd8#. (Source: Secret Notes) Copyright 2010 BrainGamz, Inc. All Rights Reserved. PO Box 1201, Harwich, MA 02645