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Issue #87 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 GM-elect Josh Friedel annotates key games, including Shabalov-Friedel, from the Edmonton International Chess Festival. Also, in the second week of the U.S. Chess League, Miami, Boston and Queens vaulted to 2-0. Challenge yourself to puzzles based on this week’s action. Book Notes  In Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess, Part 2: Kasparov vs. Karpov 1975-1985, Kasparov analyzes his first encounters with Karpov, from a 1975 simultaneous display through his first two world championship matches, all in astonishing detail! Chess Assistant 10 is a unique tool for managing chess games and databases, playing chess via the Internet, analyzing games, or playing chess against the computer. The Starter Package includes Rybka 3, Chess Opening Encyclopedia 2008, a database of 3,300,000 games, and more.
In February 1909, nineteen of the world’s best chessplayers gathered to play in one of the strongest tournaments of that era. World Champion Emanuel Lasker annotated all 175 games for the tournament book, St. Petersburg 1909, which is now available for the first time in algebraic notation.
Reviews in Brief |  ChessCafe Puzzle Book 2
by Karsten Mueller This book is designed to improve your positional intuition. Mueller remarks in the introduction that it is easier to find books on tactical exercises, because it is so much easier to find suitable tactical examples, especially with the assistance of computers. However, “with positional exercises, different computer programs may favor different moves and completely disagree about the evaluation of a given position.” The book begins with a sixty-six page section of motifs, where a particular theme is outlined, followed by a number of examples from practical play, and then a few exercises on that theme are presented. Topics include good and bad bishops, outposts, improving piece placement, prophylaxis, counterplay, positional exchange sacrifices, and much more. The second section comprises twenty tests, each with sixteen puzzles to solve. Points are gained for correct answers, as well as for near misses or interesting tries, and a score chart is provided to assess your “positional Elo.” The solutions then follow in a third section that spans 121 pages. The solutions are fully annotated and the diagrams are plentiful. Solving puzzles is a great way to improve your chess and Mueller has done a superlative job in creating a positional puzzle book. It is also available in CD format. | | |
| | | |  Starting Out: Accelerated Dragon
Andrew Greet Greet writes that “the aim of this book is to provide the reader with everything he needs to begin playing either side of the Accelerated Dragon with confidence.” He notes that he does not assume the reader has any prior knowledge about the opening, and that he endeavors “to explain all of the fundamental principles as lucidly as possible,” while also providing experienced players “a number of original ideas and analyses.” The introduction offers a brief history of the opening, an outline of the author’s experience with it, as well as and an overview of the first few moves and how it compares with the standard Dragon. Certain authors seem to be able to encompass more than just the subject matter at hand, and Greet is one of them. So not only will you learn a lot about the Accelerated dragon, you’ll also pick up quite a bit about chess in general. | | |
| New Catalog Additions 9/6: Chess Databases 2008
9/5: Chess Assistant 10, Starter Package
9/5: Chess Assistant 10, Professional Package
9/5: Chess Assistant 10, Mega Package
9/4: Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess, Part 2: Kasparov vs Karpov 1975-1985
9/3: St. Petersburg 1909
9/2: ChessBase Magazine #125 (DVD)
9/1: September Competition Special
9/1: September Scholastic Special
8/31: Shirov: Best Games in the Spanish, Vol. 3 (DVD)
8/30: New In Chess Magazine 2008/5
8/29: ChessBase 10, Upgrade Package
8/29: ChessBase 10, Starter Package
8/29: ChessBase 10, Mega Package
8/28: Rybka 3 Aquarium
8/28: Deep Rybka 3 Aquarium
8/27: Pocket Fritz 3
8/26: Anand: My Career, Vol. 1 (DVD)
8/26: Anand: My Career, Vol. 2 (DVD)
8/13: Chess Training Pocket Book II
| Weekly Puzzle | | Quote of the Week | | 
White to Move/Solution Below | | Prophylactic thinking is the key to solving many positional tasks! Mark Dvoretsky,
The Instructor, September 2008, ChessCafe.com |
Monthly Specials September 2008  | For the September Competition Special, we are pleased to offer the Folding Magnetic Demonstration Board with Pieces and Carrying Case for the incredible USCF member price of $39.95! - a savings of $60.00! The board features 3.5” Green & Buff Squares with Red and Yellow Pieces. When open, it displays 33” wide and 34” high. It folds to approximately 17.5” x 17.5” and comes with a custom bag, with outside pocket for pieces.
|  | For the September Scholastic Special, we are pleased to offer Chess Mazes for the incredible USCF member price of $9.95! - a savings of $5.00! The planning and visualization skills that come from working on Chess Mazes are valuable and instructive. Plus the puzzles are loads of fun! These Specials of the Month are good from September 1 - September 30, 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: 24.Qxa8 1-0 Fressinet-Macieja, Plovdiv 2008 (Source: ChessBase Magazine #125) |
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