ChessCafe.com Weekly Newsletter, October 14 - 20, 2009

PO Box 1201 Harwich, MA 02645 1-877-91-CHESS (1-877-912-4377) Issue #26 October 14 - 20 Welcome to the ChessCafe.com weekly newsletter. You can keep up-to-date with new product releases, read reviews of selected products, and follow the latest postings at ChessCafe.com. Plus, try your hand at solving our weekly puzzle. Enjoy! Here & There The Rookies Chess for Rookies is a fun and lively book that will bring that excitement to another generation of newcomers to the chess world. Steinitz and the Inception of Modern Chess A reassessment of the history of chess with the methodological standards borrowed from the mature history of science. Top of the World On the DVD, My Path to the Top, Vladimir Kramnik retraces his career from talented schoolboy to World Champion in 2006. Middlegame Motifs The minority attack is one of the most important middlegame plans. It occurs in asymmetrical pawn structures in which one side has a half-open file. Strategic Arsenal Where can we find quality annotations, capable of enlarging a chessplayer's strategic arsenal, and teaching him to evaluate a position properly. John Littlewood British chess suffered a big loss when FIDE Master John Eric Littlewood died on September 16, 2009, at the age of seventy-eight. Alisa Melekhina Alisa Melekhina is one of the ten participants in the 2009 U.S. Women's Championship, but she has been a rising star in the chess world for some time now. Book Notes Opening for White According to Anand 12 is devoted to the Razor-Sharp Rauzer Attack, one of the main lines of the Sicilian Defense, beginning with the moves 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6. After the move 6.Bg5, quite irrevocably accepted by contemporary theory as the most dangerous for Black, the Rauzer Attack is on the board. Grandmaster and well-known Sicilian Dragon expert Simon Williams takes a totally fresh look at The New Sicilian Dragon. Concentrating on his favourite Dragadorf Variation, Williams constructs a cutting-edge repertoire for Black. Celebrate the release of Fritz 12 by saving 10% on all ChessBase products throughout the month! You will see the discount applied once you add the item to your cart. Weekly Puzzle   Quote of the Week Black to Move/Solution Below   Long-range planning works best in the short term. Euripedes, as quoted in Win with the Stonewall Dutch Reviews in Brief Win with the Stonewall Dutch by Sverre Johnsen and Ivar Bern The Dutch hasn't exactly been at the height of fashion, nor was it ever. The Stonewall Dutch was employed regularly by World Champion Botvinnik, who very much played it in the old-fashioned style, but in the 1980s the Stonewall reemerged in the hands of a new group of players including Short, Yusupov, Dolmatov, Bareev, Nikolic, a very young Kramnik, the contributor to this book Norwegian Grandmaster Simen Agdestein, and some less familiar names such as Gleizerov, Karlsson, Moskalenko, Vaisser . The present work is very much a Norwegian production; the co-authors are Sverre Johnsen, who has co-authored two very good books published by Gambit Publications, and Ivar Bern who is a Correspondence Chess World Champion and an over-the-board international master. The material is appropriately categorized with careful consideration to the strength of the moves and how commonly they are played. The entire game is presented and well annotated, though there is a clear emphasis on the opening and early middlegame. The annotations are normally done by either Simen Agdestein (for his own games) or Ivar Bern (who also plays the Stonewall), and both instruct the reader wonderfully on the intricacies of this opening. This book is incredibly well-written and it makes the theory of this opening extremely accessible. The authors are honest and objective in their appraisal of the individual lines, which makes the book a perfect tool for the study of this fascinating opening. If you have not already bought this book, it is time to do so now. Read the full review here.     New Catalog Additions 10/14 Play the Catalan (Davies) 10/13 7 Ways to Smash the Sicilian 10/12 Fritz 12 (In Stock) 10/12 Dangerous Weapons: The King's Indian 10/10 The Budapest Gambit (Taylor) 10/9 Chess for Rookies (Pritchett) 10/8 Kill K.I.D 1 (Semkov) 10/7 The New Sicilian Dragon (Williams) 10/6 Opening for White according to Anand, Vol. 12 (Khalifman) 10/5 The Most Valuable Skills in Chess (Ashley) 10/4 B33 - Sicilian Defence 10/3 Chess Informant #105 ((Book) 10/3 Chess Informant #105 ((CD) 10/3 Chess Informant #105 ((Book + CD) 10/1 Fritz 12 (Pre-order) 9/26 Understanding Chess Endgames (Nunn) 9/25 New In Chess Magazine 2009/6 8/17 Shirov: The Sicilian with 3.Bb5 (DVD) 8/16 Davies: The f4 Sicilian (DVD) 8/15 Bologan: The Caro-Kann (DVD) Puzzle Answer: 29...Rxc2+ 30.Kxc2 Be4+ 31.Kd2 Rc2# 0–1 Brikov - Malaniuk, Tula 2004 (Source: Win with the Stonewall Dutch) Newsletter subscribers can save an extra ten percent beyond our already low price on Win with the Stonewall Dutch by typing in the coupon code "stonewall10" (without the quotes) at checkout! This offer is valid through 10/20/2009 and is not being made available to non-subscribers. Copyright 2009 BrainGamz, Inc. All Rights Reserved.