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Issue #88 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 IM Ray Robson and GM Darmen Sadvakasov tied for first in the Miami Open. Ray lost to the Kazakh GM in the last round, but went on to defeat Darmen in the Armageddon. Marc Esserman also had an awesome result. Also, CLO editor Jennifer Shahade blogs on playing for Philly against her former teamates in the U.S. Chess League, calling bluffs, and Kosteniuk’s win in game one of the World Women Champs Final. Book Notes  The 2009 International Chess Calendar is now available. It offers vintage photos, chess history, trivia, selected games, as well as dates of birth and death and major events. Plus, each month the “Chronicles” feature looks back at what was going on in the chess world 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago. The Chess Assistant 2008 Chess Databases package includes a main database of 3,300,000 current until January 1, 2008 and a correspondence database of 376,450 games from 1973 to 2005. Additionally, there are 36,000 annotated games in Chess Assistant format, an encyclopedia of players, 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 |  Chess Mazes 2
by Bruce Alberston In Chess Mazes 2, Bruce Alberston presents 216 new chess maze puzzles for your enjoyment. A chess maze is a puzzle in which only white gets to move, using only the maze piece. For bishop, rook, and knight mazes the object is to put the black king in check, without moving to a square that would put the maze piece en prise. For queen, pawn, and king mazes, the object is to checkmate the black king. Alberston originally designed chess mazes to help his students learn how the pieces move and to be aware of when the moving piece can be taken by the opposition. However, he soon discovered an ancillary benefit was that the mazes built the foundation for visualization and planning techniques. Whatever your motivation, chess mazes are great fun. They challenge the student to think and to solve concrete problems with a definite solution. This sort of problem solving can be applied to many more areas than just chess, and so Chess Mazes 2 can be heartily recommended. | | |
| | | |  ChessBase Magazine #124 The main stories in this issue are the FIDE Grand Prix, the M-Tel tournament, the European Individual Championships and the Russian Team Championships. Highlights include annotations by Gashimov, Radjabov, Tiviakov, and Movsesian. Fritz Trainer videos are offered by Karsten Mueller, Dorian Rogozenko, Alexei Shirov, Andrew Martin, and Lubomir Ftacnik. Rogozenko examines two games by Ivanchuk, a spectacular game by Sutovsky, two games from Tiviakov, as well as a double rook sacrifice from Gelfand - Alekseev. Further videos can be found in Mueller’s endgame column, Tactics by Oliver Reeh, and Opening Traps by Rainer Knaak. Along with regular features such as Peter Wells’s Strategy and Daniel King’s Move by Move columns, there are more than a dozen opening surveys, including Marin on the Benoni [A77] and Ruy Lopez [C67], Karolyi on the Dutch [A87], Prie on the Scandinavian [B01], Kritz on the Ponziani [C44], Grivas on the Queen’s Gambit [D23], and many more. | | |
| New Catalog Additions 9/12: 2009 International Chess Calendar
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)
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: 47.c6!! bxc6 48.bxc6 Kd6 49.Nf2 Bb6 50.Kd3 1-0 Sutovsky-Pantsulaia, Plovdiv 2008 (Source: ChessBase Magazine #125) |
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