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Issue #78 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 Alec Getz rebounded with four wins in a row to earn gold at the Pan-American Youth Champs. Vincent Huang, Simone Liao, Evan Xiang, Sylvia Yang, Courtney Jamison and Alena Kuzniatsova also took home medals for the U.S. Team! Plus, In a very special installment of “Adventures of a Samford Fellow,” Josh Friedel gives us a round by round account of his fantastic result in the U.S. Championship, where he earned his final GM norm. Book Notes  Highlights in Chessbase Magazine #124 include the European Individual Championships, the Russian Team Championships, and two classical all-play-all tournaments: the FIDE Grand Prix in Baku and the M-Tel Masters in Sofia. Plus there are FritzTrainer videos by Mueller, Shirov, Martin and more! Many of the skills needed for attacking chess can be learned through study and practice. In The Art of Attacking Chess, GM Zenon Franco presents thirty-three superb examples and explains the positional factors that lead to successful attacks.
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 Psychology
Angus Dunnington This book is subtitled “Approaching the Psychological Battle both On and Off the Board.” Yet it deals more with sporting factors than chess psychology. Still, it’s a good read. It’s divided into three chapters: Psychological Factors, Practical Examples, and Illustrative Games. Topics for discussion in chapter one include inner peace, gamesmanship, motivation, sleep, and food and drink. Chapter two tackles exploiting advantages, style, sense of danger, non-stereotypical play, traps and other pitfalls. | | |
| | | |  1000 - The Best of the Best One of the most popular, trademark sections in each volume of Chess Informant is the Ten Best Games of the Preceding Volume. Simply put, a group of grandmasters reviews the games from the previous volume and votes on the ten best. The votes are tallied and the “Ten Best” list compiled. The cream of the crop. Well, now these Ten Best from the first 100 volumes have been collected into one 560-page book. With apologies to Al Horowitz, this volume is the true “Golden Treasury of Chess.” Books such as Zurich 1953 by Bronstein and Tal-Botvinnik 1960 by Tal have long made it on to the fantastical “Desert Island” list. Well, make room for one more. 1000 - The Best of the Best is a book that will provide most chessplayers with a tremendous amount of enjoyment for years to come. | | |
| New Catalog Additions 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)
6/15: Chess Informant 1-100 (CD)
6/14: The Best of the Best by Chess Informant
6/13: Maestro Travel Chess Computer (restock)
6/11: Kaissiber #31
6/10: The Easiest Sicilian
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...Rxd4! 0-1 Kounalakis-Mastrovasilis, Plovdiv 2008 (Source: ChessBase Magazine #124) |
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