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Issue #82 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 the August Open at the Marshall Chess Club, IM Robert Hess defeated GM Leonid Yudasin en route to first place. Plus, check out more info on Nakamura’s Mainz 960 win, including a victory over Najer and a video interview link. Also watch Macauley Peterson’s video interviews with Vinay Bhat and Vishy Anand. Book Notes  The Modern Defense can be used against virtually every system White can play. In Starting Out: The Modern, Nigel Davies studies the opening by going back to basics, introducing the key moves and ideas, and taking care to explain the reasoning behind them. The DGT960 Game Timer is now in stock and shipping! This new timer, with its revolutionary design, is packed with great features, including bonus and delay modes. It is also the first and only clock that can automatically and randomly create “Chess 960” positions. The unique, foldable DGT960 - in stock and shipping, now!
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 |  The Chebanenko Slav according to Bologan
Victor Bologan Vyacheslav Chebanenko is the Moldavian trainer who developed the variation 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 a6 in the Slav Defense into a full-fledged viable opening system. Alexey Shirov refers to him in the foreword as “one of the most remarkable trainers of all time,” and among his students were GMs such as Gavrikov, Rogozenko, and Bologan. It is certainly a treat to have someone so closely associated with the birth of a variation to explain it in such detail! Bologan takes us from the time when the opening was still considered “a pointless waste of tempo” to the present day. Included in the lengthy introduction is the original article “A New System in the Slav Defense” by Viktor Gavrikov, which was first published in Shakhmaty v SSSR No. 12, 1983, and extracts from the books Revolution in the 70s by Garry Kasparov and School of Chess Excellence 4 - Opening Developments by Mark Dvoretsky. There are seven chapters; each features a different fifth move alternative for White. Lines that are not included are other fourth moves for White: 4.Qc2 and 4.e3 after 3.Nf3 or 3.Nc3, although Bologan does offer some brief advice in these instances. The book concludes with thirty-four middlegame test positions that ask you to find the typical plans for White (thirteen puzzles) or Black (twenty-one puzzles). This system originated during a time when chess players “used to use their own heads to think,” and accordingly you are encouraged to “get your brain to work and come up with ideas,” as new concepts are constantly being discovered. | | |
| | | |  How to Crush Your Chess Opponents
Simon Williams In this self-professed “inspiring guide for the modern attacker,” Simon Williams annotates thirty of his favorite attacking games. Two of the games feature Williams himself, while others are from such notable attackers as Topalov, Shirov, Polgar, and Hector. English GMs such as Gormally, Wells, Plaskett, and Short are also represented, among others. The games were played between 1991 to the present day and are divided among the chapters Opening to the Middlgame, Keeping the Initiative, Harmonizing the Army, Locating the Weak Point, Changing the Tempo, All-In!, and Playing to Your Strength. Williams notes that his aims in writing the book were “to show you some fascinating games” and to “help you understand how to hack up your opponents quickly!” Along the way he provides tips on attacking and defending, as well as how to calculate properly. Beginners should buy this book for the lucid explanations as to how to form an attack. Strong players should buy it just for pure enjoyment, and for the fact that the diagrams are plentiful enough so as to barely need a board and pieces. | | |
| New Catalog Additions 8/6: DGT960 Game Timer
8/2: New ChessCafe.com Cap
8/1: August Competition Special
8/1: August Scholastic Special
7/31: New In Chess Yearbook #87
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)
| Weekly Puzzle | | Quote of the Week | | 
Black to Move/Solution Below | | Space usually comes at the cost of certain weaknesses ... Nigel Davies,
Starting Out: The Modern |
Monthly Specials August 2008  | For the August Competition Special, we are pleased to offer the DGT Kramnik Gift Set for the incredible USCF member price of $89.95! - a savings of $70.00! The set features Golden Sheesham Chess Pieces with Drawstring Bag, Folding Wooden Walnut & Maple Chess Board, DGT Easy Plus Clock and a special CD with 120 Kramnik games, all in an attractive gift box.
|  | For the August Scholastic Special, we are pleased to offer Pandolfini’s Chess Complete for the incredible USCF member price of $9.95! - a savings of $7.00! Pandolfini has created the chess bible for players of all levels. He has covered every aspect of the game, from chessboard and pieces, to history and strategy. These Specials of the Month are good from August 1 - August 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: 31...Nxd5 32.exd5 Rf4 0-1 Guliev-Kakageldyev, Simferopol, 1989 (Source: Starting Out: The Modern) |
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