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The World Championship match between Viswanathan Anand and Vladimir Kramnik has begun and the games can be viewed via the Foidos Chess system at ChessCafe.com. Tune in on game day to keep up to date. Move Triggers
Dan Heisman believes that the clock elevates chess from just a game to a highly respected mental sport. In this month’s Novice Nook he asserts that anyone who understands the key role of the chess clock will benefit greatly by mastering time management skills. Endgame Riddle
This month Karsten Mueller looks at the legendary endgame of the twenty-third game of the world championship match Botvinnik vs. Bronstein. It has been analyzed by many experts, but there still seems to be several open questions and lingering doubts. Book Notes  Essential Chess Endings for Advanced Players has plenty of good material packed into its pages. This book can help you squeeze out the occasional extra half- or full point. Besides, as the October Competition Special, you can’t possibly go wrong at this incredible price! New In Chess Magazine, 2008/6 is now available. Contents include Anand’s victory at the Mainz Chess Classic, the 41st Biel Chess Festival, Hans Ree on the end of chess, an article on how to jettison superfluous pieces, and much more.
Dvoretsky’s Analytical Manual is a modern classic from which the serious student may take his or her knowledge and understanding of complex middlegame ideas to the next level.
Reviews in Brief |  Catastrophe in the Opening
by James Plaskett This book features eighty-eight mostly miniature games. All well-annotated with the aim to help the readers avoid similar pitfalls in their own games. There are seven chapters: poisoned pawns, castling into it, trapping the queen, theory, attacks on the uncastled king, structural superiority, and eye off the ball. If you want to learn how to punish your opponent’s poor opening play, then this book can certainly assist you. It also stands as an entertaining games collection. | | |
| | | |  The Grandmaster’s Mind
Amatzia Avni This book investigates how chess players think and what differentiates the experts from the novices. It seeks to answer why some people are more skilled than others and how this difference expresses itself. Avni, a psychologist by profession, interviews top players and analysts such as Boris Gelfand, Yona Kosashvili, and Lev Psakhis. The dialogue focuses on their most interesting and instructive games or compositions, if the subject happens to be a problem composer. Avni allows his interviewees to relate their own thoughts and explain how they made decisions during critical moments of the game. He also presents them with unfamiliar positions and records their reactions. He then provides an overview of what was said, and provides some insights and recommendations in chapters such as The Thinking of GMs, A System for Problem-solving, and Critical Success Factors. | | |
| New Catalog Additions 10/15: Starting Out: The c3 Sicilian
10/10: New In Chess Magazine, 2008/6
10/4: Roman’s Lab, Vol. 61: Art of Instant Attacks (DVD)
10/4: Roman’s Lab, Vol. 60: Attacking Gambits (DVD)
10/3: NY Times Deluxe Talking Touch Chess (restock)
10/2: Roman’s Lab, Vol. 59: Attacking the KID with the Samisch (DVD)
10/1: October Competition Special
10/1: October Scholastic Special
9/28: Chess Knit Caps
9/27: Chess Baseball Cap
9/26: Secrets of Opening Surprises, Vol. 9
9/25: Play 1.b3!
9/24: The Chess Instructor 2009
9/23: Dvoretsky’s Analytical Manual
9/12: 2009 International Chess Calendar
| Weekly Puzzle | | Quote of the Week | | 
White to Move/Solution Below | | Every move has to be carefully timed. Emanuel Lasker,
St. Petersburg 1909 |
Monthly Specials October 2008  | For the October Competition Special, we are pleased to offer Essential Chess Endings for Advanced Players by John Donaldson for the incredible USCF member price of $6.95! - a savings of $10.00! This book deals with how to develop endgame technique in essential but practical endings for stronger players, Class B and above.
|  | For the October Scholastic Special, we are pleased to offer Looking for Trouble by Dan Heisman for the incredible USCF member price of $9.95! - a savings of $8.00! This book provides over 200 problems, ranging from extremely easy to fiendishly difficult, which focus on identifying and meeting threats. These Specials of the Month are good from October 1 - October 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. |
 New at Chess Life Online GM Joel Benjamin chronicles the first five matches of the New Jersey Knockouts, which brought them to a 3.5-1.5 record. Also, CLO problemist Gary Kevin Ware takes readers through the process of composing a problem, with the help of Sam Loyd and Thomas Taverner. Join the USCF Today 
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Puzzle Answer: 26.Re6 Qxh2+ 27.Kf1 Ref8 28.Bxf8 Rxf8 29.Re7 Qh1+ 30.Ke2 1-0 Salwe-Forgacs, St. Petersburg 1909 (Source: St. Petersburg 1909) |
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