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(1-877-912-4377) Issue #27
October 21 - 27
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 Haunting
Any aspiring player, with this book seriously at hand, will not only be further haunted by Fischer, but will also improve quickly. Anything to Win
According to this documentary, Bobby Fischer was an eccentric recluse who would do anything - rational or not - to win. Small Advantages
The ability to create the maximum of problems out of a small advantage is one of the differences between the world's very top players and other grandmasters. The System
Playing a sophisticated closed opening not only requires a more experienced hand, but also delays the inevitable need to learn to survive tactical fights. Flag Man
If a flag falls and no one sees it, what is the the result of the game? Media Junkie
A hopeless chess media junkie showcases the new software and training DVDs being produced by ChessBase. Book Notes  The Hedgehog is a thoroughly modern defense where flexibility and understanding trump rote memorization. Using deeply annotated critical games from international practice, GM Sergey Shipov traces the Hedgehog's development - from its origins as a way to avoid well-trodden paths to its current status as a respected weapon in Black's armory. The Budapest Gambit is an ambitious and adventurous opening for Black, who offers a pawn as early as the second move in return for active and rapid development. It has always been a particular favorite at club level, where it still provides a surprise weapon, but it has also been utilized with success by top-class grandmasters. Newsletter subscribers can save $5.00 when they buy both The Budapest Gambit book by Tim Taylor and The Budapest Gambit DVD by Andrew Martin. Just enter the coupon code "budapest5" without the quotes at checkout. Offer valid until 10/27/09.
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.
Reviews in Brief |  Bobby Fischer: The Career and Complete Games of the American World Chess Champion
by Karsten Mueller, in hardcover and paperback We were haunted by Robert James Fischer long before he died. The young kid from Brooklyn who skipped school to engulf chess literature at the New York Public Library, who took his rating from 1830 at age twelve to qualify for the Candidates tournament just three years later, who took the American and then the World chess scene by storm, winning methodically and with style all of its highest honors, and who, after disappearing, reemerged sporadically with a uniquely eccentric blend of odious ideologies and breathtaking opening discoveries. Like no other player, Fischer energized the game. With an unrivaled fighting spirit and devotion, he single-handedly demolished a Soviet chess machine that had dominated its highest levels. He inspired tens of thousands of new adherents, and leaves behind an astonishing legacy of some of the world's greatest chess. We are, as they say, still searching for Bobby Fischer, and there is today no better aid available for that endeavor than this comprehensive new volume from Karsten Mueller . From the start, this new book was a daunting project: insightful annotations for all of Fischer's 736 tournament and match games, original analysis that combines observations from the decades of literature with the realities of modern approaches, wonderful period photographs that have not previously been published, and enlightening essays about Fischer by the American grandmasters best qualified to comment, Larry Evans and Andy Soltis. Permit me to conclude that any aspiring player, with this book seriously at hand, will not only be further haunted by Fischer, but will also improve quickly. Read the full review here. | | |
| | | New Catalog Additions 10/21 The Complete Hedgehog (Shipov)
10/20 Improve Your Chess (Hansen)
10/19 Power Play 11: Defence (DVD)
10/18 Teaching Chess, Step by Step: Activities (Book 3)
10/18 Teaching Chess, Step by Step: Exercises (Book 2)
10/18 Teaching Chess, Step by Step: Teacher's Manual (Book 1)
10/17 Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess (Hardcover)
10/16 Bullet Chess: One Minute to Mate (Nakamura)
10/16 Studies For Practical Players (Dvoretsky)
10/15 Bobby Fischer: The Career and Complete Games of the American World Chess Champion (Hardcover)
10/15 Bobby Fischer: The Career and Complete Games of the American World Chess Champion (Paperback)
10/15 ChessBase Magazine #132
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 (In Stock)
9/26 Understanding Chess Endgames (Nunn)
9/25 New In Chess Magazine 2009/6
Puzzle Answer: 30...Nd3+ 31.Rxd3 Rxe2+ 32.Qxe2 Rxe2+ 33.Bxe2 Ke5 34.Rd4 Qc5 0–1 O'Hanlon - Duchamp, Nice 1930 (Source: Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess)
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