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Top Sellers in our Shop Book Notes A Guide to Chess Improvement features the very best of Dan Heisman's multi-award winning chess column Novice Nook, which has run for the past ten years at the popular website ChessCafe.com. This book is full of valuable instruction, insight and practical advice on a wide range of key subjects: general improvement, thought processes, planning and strategy, tactics, endgame play, technique, time management and much more besides. Heisman has thoroughly revised, expanded and updated his work to produce an easy-to-navigate guide. He has also included brand new and exclusive columns. Any player from beginner to expert who is serious about improving their chess should read this book! Read a free excerpt in our shop! Grandmaster Repertoire 2: 1.d4, Vol. 2 is now available in hardcover! Top GM Boris Avrukh charts a course towards an advantage with 1.d4. He covers the King's Indian, Dutch, Gruenfeld, various Benonis, Benko, Budapest Gambit and other minor openings. Read a free excerpt in our shop! We are pleased to offer ChessCafe.com customers the opportunity to receive an extra $6.95 discount on Grandmaster Repertoire 6: The Sicilian Defence! Simply add Grandmaster Repertoire 6: The Sicilian Defence to your cart, and during the checkout process, enter the coupon code "gmrep6" (without the quotes) to receive Grandmaster Repertoire 6: The Sicilian Defence for only $22.00!! This offer expires November 9, 2010 or while supplies last. Weekly Puzzle Quote of the Week Black to Move/Solution Below Playing chess correctly requires a lot of thought! Dan Heisman A Guide to Chess Improvement Reviews in Brief Grandmaster Repertoire 6: The Sicilian Defence by Lubomir Ftacnik Slovakian grandmaster Lubomir Ftacnik deserves special credit for this book, because he is possibly the first author in the last decade to write a book on the Najdorf without mentioning former world champions Fischer or Kasparov in the introduction. They are mentioned in the back cover blurb, but that is written by the publisher, not the author. Here is how Ftacnik describes it in the introduction:  "My own modest expertise lies in the domains of the Najdorf and Scheveningen systems, which I have been playing and studying over the past two decades. The Scheveningen system represents a kind of fundamental core, from which virtually all knowledge about thematic Sicilian structures and plans can be traced. Although the official subject of this book is the Najdorf, the two systems share many common themes and can often transpose to one another. In certain places, such as Chapters 12 and 13 (which deal with the variations 6.f4 and 6.Be2 respectively), the decision to recommend the response 6…e6, instead of the equally valid alternatives such as 6…e5, was influenced by my fondness for the Scheveningen set-up. I make no apologies for this, as I believe that an author can make the most useful contribution when writing about his own areas of expertise." All the volumes in the GM Repertoire series have proved to be exceptional. Here, Ftacnik writes with confidence, intensity, and authority, all of which makes you want to take up the repertoire and make use of the powerful new ideas he introduces. The authors in this series continue to deliver manuscripts that are jam-packed with novelties and true improvements over existing theory. Let's hope they are well-paid, because they have been delivering the goods so far.    Read the full review here. 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