This Week at ChessCafe.com: Dynamic Duo

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Step by Step Designed to improve your visualization skills. K vs. K A brilliant and famous game from the 1990 World Championship match. Book Notes Between 1984 and 1990 Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov contested five long matches for the World Championship. This fourth volume of the series 'Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess' concentrates on all the games played between the two from 1988 to the present day and features their fifth World Championship match played in New York and Lyon 1990. The period after 1990 was also a fascinating one in the chess world as it witnessed the emergence of a new generation of young grandmasters capable of challenging the supremacy of the two 'K's'. Between them these great champions had dominated the chess landscape for the previous two decades and it has seemed unthinkable that a major tournament could be won by a different player. Now, however, grandmasters such as Viswanathan Anand, Vassily Ivanchuk, Nigel Short, Boris Gelfand, Vladimir Kramnik and Veselin Topalov arrived on the scene and proved themselves capable of competing successfully at the very highest levels. Read an excerpt in our shop!  Do you truly want to understand chess? Chess Words of Wisdom is made up of the crucial information mined from over 400 sources, all condensed into this remarkably complete, and one-of-a-kind, chess book. Chess Words of Wisdom quotes, paraphrases and summarizes the teaching of hundreds of experts, masters, IMs, GMs and even a few scientists, scholars and generals. Essentially, all of the wisdom from these important sources is in this one book!     We are pleased to offer ChessCafe.com customers the opportunity to save an extra twenty percent off our already low price on the Checkmate Tactics by Garry Kasparov. Simply add the book to your shopping cart and, during the checkout process, enter the coupon code "checkmate20" (without the quotes) to receive an additional twenty percent discount! This offer expires September 14, 2010 or while supplies last. Weekly Puzzle Quote of the Week Black to Move/Solution Below If you want to play chess - you have to understand tacticcs. Garry Kasparov Checkmate Tactics Reviews in Brief Chess Duels by Yasser Seirawan Since winning the World Junior Championship in 1979, Yasser Seirawan has been involved in a remarkable number of the inside doings in the chess world. He was instrumental in the Prague Agreement, which successfully averted near-success in reuniting the world championship (I think that sentence about captures the Herculean nature of the task Seirawan set himself), as well as publishing Inside Chess for many years and, along the way, putting out some terrific instructional books. This one, from Everyman Chess, can be described as his chess memoir. It's an unusual book. Offhand, it's hard to think of many other chess memoirs. The closest is probably Life and Games of Mikhail Tal, although Susan Polgar's book, Breaking Through, on herself and her two sisters bears some similarities, as does Chess Bitch. This is the story of two decades spent perilously near the chess summit, in the crowd of grandmasters who today would include Nakamura, Almasi, and Nisipeanu – not quite world titlists, but also not the sort you want to see cracking their knuckles and grinning across the board at you in a weekend Swiss. After twenty years in that heady company, a player ought to have a rich stock of anecdotes and colorful stories. Now I enjoy chess as much as the next guy, but it's unusual for me to enjoy a chess games collection quite as thoroughly as I did this one. Why? Because Seirawan puts me right at the moment of action. Over and over, as in this anecdote, Seirawan brings his reader so close to the action that we might as well have been on the Olympic team, or in Korchnoi's living room, or any of the other fascinating places Seirawan describes. I remember a comment about C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower novels, that when Forester writes about a Napoleonic sea battle, the reader can smell the salt air and gunsmoke. In this book, the reader can hear the clock ticking, feel the sweat beading, see the opponent staring. Read the full review here. 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