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Issue #79 Welcome to the USCFSales.com weekly newsletter. You can keep up-to-date with new product releases, read reviews of selected products, and follow the latest news from the U.S. Chess Federation. Plus, try your hand at solving our weekly puzzle. Enjoy!  New at Chess Life Online Jessica Lauser writes about the 2008 U.S. Blind Championship (June 20-21), where she placed third despite suffering a number of misadventures. Plus, Elizabeth Vicary reports on the most recent session of the U.S. Chess School, led by GM Gregory Kaidanov and organized by IM Greg Shahade. Read about the players and test yourself on some key exercises from Kaidanov’s lectures. Book Notes  In How to Crush Your Chess Opponents, GM Simon Williams annotates his favorite attacking games from the modern era. He takes us inside the decision-making process and explains how top players know when to launch on an all-out assault. If you want to be a well-rounded chess player, it is vital that you have a good understanding of positional play. In the DVD Power Play 6: Pawns, Pieces & Plans, GM Daniel King discusses three classic questions: the isolated queen’s pawn, central passed pawns, and when to exchange pawns or not.
Arthur Bisguier is a living legend in American chess,
having met and defeated some of the greatest players
in the world. This is a collection of his best games -
annotated by Bisguier himself - from 1961 through 2003.
Reviews in Brief |  Chess Informant 1-100 (CD) The Mother of All Game Collections Has Arrived! All the games from the first 100 volumes of Chess Informant have been collected onto one CD. You will find over 101,000 games, each and every one with the original, deep annotations. The list of annotators alone is staggering. How would you like to have over 500 games games annotated by Tigran Petrosian? Almost 370 by Tal? Over 600 by Kasparov and over 450 by Anand? All original, all written specifically for Chess Informant. That’s just a small part of what you will find on this CD. To make it even easier to access, the games are presented in four different formats: ChessBase, Chess Assistant, Chess Informant Expert and PGN. This is not an inexpensive database, but you might well want to consider clearing your bookshelves, firing up your PC, and enjoying some of the greatest chess played in the last four decades. | | |
| | | |  Secrets of Chess Intuition
Alexander Beliavsky & Adrian Mikhalchishin This book, said to be the first devoted to this subject, attempts to explain how to develop your intuition to its maximum potential and provides guidance on the types of positions in which one should rely on intuition, and on those requiring deeper analysis. The authors suggest that there are three types of intuition in chess: combinative, positional, and psychological. While they do not define intuition themselves, they do offer a number of definitions from players such as Anand, Kramnik, Sosonko, and Gelfand, as well as from various scientist or psychologists. And if Sosonko’s recommendation of developing intuition through study of the most diverse games is anywhere close to the mark, then this book can be a useful tool in improving one’s game. The focus tends to be on dynamic features and sacrifices, but there are discussions of intuitive prophylaxis, sense of danger, and improving the worst placed piece. Other topics include psychological factors, intuition in the opening and endgame, plus there are contributions from Suetin and Ivanchuk. | | |
| New Catalog Additions 7/14: Saber IV Electronic Chess (restock)
7/13: Torre Attack (DVD)
7/12: Power Play 7: Improve your Pieces (DVD)
7/11: Power Play 6: Pawns, Pieces & Plans (DVD)
7/10: London System (DVD)
7/9: How to Crush Your Chess Opponents
7/8: The Art of Attacking Chess
7/7: Endgames for Experts (DVD)
7/6: Colle System (DVD)
7/5: Albin’s Countergambit (DVD)
7/4: ABC of the Modern Benoni (DVD)
7/3: ChessBase Magazine #124 (DVD)
7/2: New In Chess Magazine, 2008/4
7/1: July Competition Special
7/1: July Scholastic Special
6/30: Play the Slav
6/29: Pawn Sacrifice!
6/28: The Greatest Ever Chess Opening Ideas
6/27: Chebanenko Slav according to Bologan
6/26: NY Times Deluxe Talking Touch Chess (restock)
6/23: Chess Informants 92-94 PGN (CD) (restock)
6/22: Chess Informants 98-100 (CD) (restock)
6/21: Anthology of Chess Combinations (restock)
6/20: Forcing Chess Moves
6/19: Braille Chess Set (restock)
6/18: Carrying Case for Wooden Board (restock)
6/17: Olympian Premium Chess Set
6/16: Chess Informant #101 (Book)
6/16: Chess Informant #101 (CD)
6/16: Chess Informant #101 (Book + CD)
| Weekly Puzzle | | Quote of the Week | | 
Black to Move/Solution Below | | The attack in chess is of supreme importance, and mastering its secrets is a goal to which we all aspire... Zenon Franco,
The Art of Attacking Chess |
Monthly Specials July 2008  | For the July Competition Special, we are pleased to offer Five Crowns, by Yasser Seirawan & Jonathan Tisdall, for the incredible USCF member price of $9.95! - a savings of $10.00! Yasser Seirawan deeply analyses all games of the 1990 New York/Lyon World Championship Match and Jonathan Tisdall reports all the news from ringside. It also includes every game played between Kasparov and Karpov, as of June 1991.
|  | For the July Scholastic Special, we are pleased to offer Chess School 4: The Manual of Chess Endings for the incredible USCF member price of $12.95! - a savings of $12.00! Aimed at intermediate players rated 1400+, this book features more than 600 endgame positions that require basic theoretical knowledge and understanding, from the simplest to the complicated. These Specials of the Month are good from July 1 - July 31, 2008. Orders may be placed online, by mail or by phone. These Specials of the Month may be withdrawn at any time and are good only while supplies last. |
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Puzzle Answer: 32...Rxc5! 31.Qxc5 Bd5! 32.R1a2 Bxa2 33.Qa5 Qc1+ 34.Kh2 Qf4+ 35.Kh1 Rc8 0-1 Solomon-Lane, Auckland 2005 (Source: Improve Your Chess in 7 Days) |
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