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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! Here & There
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The ending with material equality on one side, and an extra pawn on the other, is one of the most important, and also one of the most difficult segments of the general rook endgame. This month Mark Dvoretsky brings two instructive examples of this theme to your attention. Christmas Books
In The Kibitzer this month, Tim Harding looks at an assortment of books that you might consider adding to your Christmas wish list, including Kasparov’s latest blockbuster and a title that will interest correspondence chess specialists. World Youth
In his Scholastic Chess column, Steve Golberg reports on the 2008 World Youth Chess Championships in Vung Tau, Vietnam. The 28-player U.S. squad did quite well, including bronze medals for Sam Shankland and Darwin Yang, as well as an international master title for Shankland. Book Notes  For the Weekly Holiday Special December 8-14, we are pleased to offer the Executive Magnetic Travel Set for the incredibly low price of $19.95 to USCF members - a savings of $25.00! If you’re looking to acquire a sharper tactical eye, or maintain your tactical acumen, 606 Puzzles for Chess Nuts is a nice book to spend time with. The puzzles are ranked in three levels of difficulty: beginner, intermediate, and tournament.
Newsletter Only Sale  In order to celebrate the 100th USCFSales.com Weekly Newsletter and as a special holiday treat for subscribers, we are pleased to offer the Walnut Magnetic Chess Set for the incredibly low USCF member price of $19.95 - a savings of $15.00. Non-members may purchase the Walnut Magnetic Chess Set for $22.95. This offer is good December 10-17, 2008 while supplies last.
Reviews in Brief |  Rybka 3 Aquarium
by Convekta Ltd. Rybka Aquarium is a graphical user interface designed to take advantage of the full power of Rybka 3, the world’s strongest chess engine. The developers purposefully geared the Aquarium interface towards serious players, with an emphasis on analysis functionality. There are a many different options such as infinite analysis, blunder check, game analysis, and interactive deep analysis (IDeA). Yet beginning players will also find plenty to keep them busy too. For example, you can play material and rating handicap games, or Chess960, or against other players via the Internet on the Chess Planet server. In addition, Rybka Aquarium supports standard operations such as database handling, playing against the computer (with or without handicaps), hosting engine vs. engine matches and tournaments, and much more. Rybka 3 Aquarium comes bundled with a database of 3,300,000 games, an opening book that can be used within the Fritz-family of applications, online access to the Nalimov endgame tablebases (3-6 pieces), and versions for 32 and 64 bit processors. Rybka’s opening book features grandmaster evaluations of more than 100,000 positions, as well as two analysis trees (CAP) containing previously analyzed positions. The Rybka CAP Data contains 20 million positions, while the CAP Data offers 45 million positions analyzed by Rybka and other engines. Thus, Rybka 3 Aquarium offers many powerful tools for game analysis that will benefit serious competitors and many fun features for chess play that will please recreational users. | | |
| | | |  Chinese School of Chess
by Liu Wenzhe The author was the first Chinese player to defeat a western GM and subsequently became China’s top trainer. Their successes have created two women’s world champions, a youngest GM at age 14, and an Olympiad team that competes at the highest levels. Such accomplishments warrant an interest in this book. It details the training methods that attained these results and offers extensive analysis of many games. According to Wenzhe the principles used by the other schools (center, development, and tempo) are “all based on an inadequate understanding of chess.” The Chinese principles are strategy, structure, and space. However, it is questionable whether the Chinese “art of thinking” and “strategy of competition” will fundamentally change the way chess is played. | | |
| New Catalog Additions 12/8: Weekly Holiday Special
12/6: 606 Puzzles for Chess Nuts
12/5: Susan Polgar’s Winning Chess the Easy Way, Vols. 11-13, Master the French (3 DVDs)
12/5: Susan Polgar’s Winning Chess the Easy Way, Vol. 13, Master the French, Part 3 (DVD)
12/5: Susan Polgar’s Winning Chess the Easy Way, Vol. 12, Master the French, Part 2 (DVD)
12/5: Susan Polgar’s Winning Chess the Easy Way, Vol. 11, Master the French, Part 1 (DVD)
12/1: December Competition Special
12/1: December Scholastic Special
11/29: Facing the World Champions (DVD)
11/28: Deep Fritz 11 (DVD)
11/27: Endgame Fireworks (DVD)
11/25: ECO A-E (CD restock)
11/24: New In Chess Yearbook #88
11/23: DGT ChessBox Combo
11/23: DGT Chess960 Combo
11/22: Informants 1-100 (CD restock)
11/21: Anthology of Chess Combinations (CD restock)
11/20: The Best of the Best (restock)
11/19: Olympian Chessmen
11/19: New Classic Series Chessmen
11/16: Attacking Manual 1
11/15: The Berlin Wall
11/14: 101 Chess Questions Answered
11/13: How Chess Games Are Won and Lost
11/12: DGT Chess Trainer (CD)
11/10: Kaissiber 32
| Weekly Puzzle | | Quote of the Week | | 
White to Move/Solution Below | | A knight is always a good prerequisite for a swindle! Lars Bo Hansen,
How Chess Games are Won and Lost |
Monthly Specials December 2008  | For the December Competition Special, we are pleased to offer How to Think in Chess by Jan Przewoznik & Marek Soszynski for the incredible USCF member price of $9.95! - a savings of $15.00! How to Think in Chess is the rare book that explains in clear terms the techniques chess masters use to find their moves.
|  | For the December Scholastic Special, we are pleased to offer a super magnetic travel set for the incredible USCF member price of $3.95! The Little Button Magnetic Set has squares that are 5/8” on a side and it opens to 5-1/8” x 5-5/8”. The pieces are much like rounded plastic discs with magnets. Everything is housed in a sturdy plastic case which is 3” x 5-1/8” closed. These Specials of the Month are good from December 1 - December 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 The Dallas Destiny captured their second straight U.S. Chess League title in an exciting blitz marathon playoff against the Boston Blitz. USCL Game of the Week judge Jonathan Hilton wraps up the action. Also, in the first in a new series, Jennifer Shahade interviews IM Sam Shankland about his tie for first in the World U18 Championship in Vietnam. Join the USCF Today 
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Puzzle Answer: 21.Nf6+ 1-0 Tiviakov - Hertneck, Leon 2001 (Source: How to Beat the French Defence) |
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