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Issue #81 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 Maxx Coleman and Tim Moroney both earned 5.5/6 at the U.S. Junior Open (July 25-27, Lindsberg, Kansas), but Coleman took the trophy and the title on tiebreak. Plus, IM Daniel Fernandez won the 2008 U.S. Class Championships (July 18-20, Houston) with 4.5/5. His closest rival, reigning Denker Champ Warren Harper came in clear second with 4/5. Book Notes  In Chess Mazes 2, author Bruce Alberston has created another 216 fascinating chess mazes. The chapters appear in progressive order of difficulty to keep pace with a student’s increasing development, and form kind of a chess course in itself. Many players feel uncertain in the endgame. Yet there are relatively few endgames that must be learned. In 100 Endgames You Must Know, Spanish grandmaster Jesus de Villa presents the practical endings most likely to arise in an actual game.
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 |  Chess Lists
Andy Soltis The San Francisco Chronicle wrote of the 1984 first edition that it was “a real browser’s delight” and the same holds true with this second edition. It is a “Guinness Book” kind of compilation of the best, the worst, the shortest, the longest, the oddest; of players, games, matches, tournaments, books, ideas, etc. The lists are complete with background detail and this new edition contains twenty-five percent more material, while the majority of lists from the first edition have been updated or expanded. Topics include Ten Cases of Suspected or Confirmed Cheating, Eleven Games That (Probably) Never Happened, Alekhine’s Fifteen “Improvements,” and Four Faked Games. | | |
| | | |  Secrets of Opening Surprises, Vol. 6
Jeroen Bosch (Editor) The SOS series is designed to bring you a variety of unusual opening ideas that often deviate from mainstream theory even before move six, but which are perfectly playable in practice. This volume features sixteen opening surveys, including Ian Rogers on the Gruenfeld, Donaldson and Silman on 3.h4 in the Hyper-Accelerated Dragon, Arthur Kogan on the Tarzan Attack, Adrian Mikhalchishin on the Dory Defence and the Spanish, and Jeroen Bosch on the Najdorf, the Sicilian Aussie Attack, the Chigorin Attack and the French Advance with 5...a6. | | |
| New Catalog Additions 7/30: Roman’s Lab, Volume 58: Taking Advantage of Common Endgame Mistakes
7/29: Roman’s Lab, Vol. 57: Roman vs. Rybka
7/25: 100 Endgames You Must Know
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
| Weekly Puzzle | | Quote of the Week | | 
White to Move/Solution Below | | It’s not a pleasant task to have to analyze the reasons for a defeat ... Anatoly Karpov,
Karpov on Karpov |
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: 1.e5! fxe5 2.Kg2 Kf4 3.Kf2 Draw (Source: 100 Endgames You Must Know) |
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