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Issue #80 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 In St. Louis, Missouri a spectacular new chess club has opened. Check out Steve Goldberg’s report, including a photo gallery that might make you wish you lived in St. Louis. Plus, Elizabeth Vicary reviews her favorite chess books for summer beach reading and gives thoughts on how to get the most value from your tactical training. Book Notes  Advance orders are now being accepted for the DGT960, the world’s first folding clock. This single-time-control clock is packed with features, including a one-button function to quickly, easily, and randomly create “Chess 960” positions. As most chess instructors and players know, it is much more difficult to teach and learn strategic concepts than tactics. In the ChessCafe Puzzle Book 2, German grandmaster Dr. Karsten Mueller will help you test and improve your positional intuition.
Chess Mazes are designed to develop your visualization skills. In Chess Mazes 2, Bruce Alberston presents 216 new maze puzzles.
In the ChessCafe Puzzle Book 2, German grandmaster Dr. Karsten Mueller will help you develop your strategic chess playing skills.
Reviews in Brief |  Interview with a Grandmaster
Aaron & Claire Summerscale In this book Claire Summerscale engagingly interviews nine grandmasters on a broad range of topics. They are Adams, Short, Seirawan, Khalifman, Lautier, J. Polgar, Hodgson, Sutovsky, and Rowson. Each grandmaster notes their best game and what game they think is the best ever played, a good many of the latter are games by Kasparov. Many of the GMs mentioned the same game and so had to choose a new one. Aaron Summerscale then annotates all of the games. This is a good general interest chess book. | | |
| | | |  How to Become a Deadly Chess Tactician
David LeMoir The author states that “better tactics mean better results” and he offers three factors to improving tactical vision: motivation, having the willingness to sacrifice and to consider tactical ideas; imagination, being aware of tactical concepts that lead to ideas which other players might miss; and calculation, being able to analyze and calculate effectively. He begins by going back to the days of Morphy and Anderssen and tracing the history of tactics to the present day. Other topics include silent sacrifices, brilliant blunders, and how not to calculate combinations. At the end of each topic there are three different levels of exercises (78 total) and it finishes with a series of three tests containing 36 exercises. Recommended for all players. | | |
| New Catalog Additions 7/23: DGT960 Game Timer (Advance Orders)
7/20: ChessCafe Puzzle Book 2
7/20: ChessCafe Puzzle Book 2 (Book + CD)
7/20: ChessCafe Puzzle Books 1 & 2 (2 books)
7/20: ChessCafe Puzzle Books 1 & 2 (2 books + 2 CDs)
7/19: Chess Mazes 2
7/19: Chess Mazes 1 & 2 (2 books)
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)
| Weekly Puzzle | | Quote of the Week | | 
White to Move/Solution Below | | Always let your intuition be your guide in any given position. Karsten Mueller,
ChessCafe Puzzle Book 2 |
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: 27.h3! Nb6 28.Qg4 Qd6 29.Rxf6! 1-0 Haba-Lechtynsky, Karlovy Vary 2005 (Source: ChessCafe Puzzle Book 2) |
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