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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 Good Omen
If you want to be a pioneer, then delve into the past to come up with something that can be improved for modern times. Smash the Sicilian, Please
I had just tallied the number of works that I reviewed on the Sicilian Defense to be more than seventy. Now I can add another four titles to the count. The Levenfish Attack
To those who know that I love the King's Gambit, it may seem that I must push the f-pawn no matter what opening I play. Sicilian Sacrifices
These thematic sacrifices are strong weapons for those who understand how to deal with the positions that follow. Chess Nuts
This Talkartoon, produced in 1932, is Betty Boop's twenty-third cartoon appearance. Step by Step
Step by Step: Mate is designed to improve your visualization skills and can be used as a workbook exercise in a classroom setting. Book Notes  According to Carsten Hansen, the previous edition of the New In Chess Yearbook, put together by the editorial team of Genna Sosonko, Rene Olthof, and Peter Boel, was one of the best volumes in the history of the series. And with Volume #92, they do it again! It is available in hardcover and paperback. Secrets of Opening Surprises, Volume 11 is also in stock and shipping. You can take a sneak-peak at its contents by visiting our shop. Newsletter subscribers who order the hardcover edition of NIC YB92 can save 50% off our already low price on NIC Magazine 2009/6. Just add both items to the shopping cart and enter the coupon code "nicyb50" (without the quotes) at checkout. This offer is only being made to subscribers and is valid until November 10, 2009.
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| Weekly Puzzle | | Quote of the Week | | 
White to Move/Solution Below | | You cannot hope to learn how to break the rules if you don't know them. Lars Bo Hansen
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Reviews in Brief |  7 Ways to Smash the Sicilian
by Yury Lapshun & Nick Conticello Not for the faint of heart, "this book is a collection of well-analysed games featuring thematic, active piece sacrifices by White in the Open Sicilian," the authors write. The sacrifices examined are those in which White does not recoup the material right away, and they include Nd5, Nxe6, Bxe6, Nf5 N(x)b5, and B(x)b5, with a final chapter devoted to Bd5, Rxf6, and miscellaneous sacrifices. Each chapter is organized in the same manner. A brief introduction is provided wherein the authors discuss the primary themes involved in the specific sacrifice. This is then followed by a series of complete and well-annotated games illustrating the issue at hand. There are 109 games in total. 7 Ways to Smash the Sicilian, written by international master Lapshun and U.S. national master Conticello, offers instruction that both white and black players should be familiar with before venturing into the Open Sicilian. Read the full review here. | | |
| | | New Catalog Additions 11/4 Nezhmetdinov's Best Games of Chess (restock)
11/3 Starting Out: The Sicilian (2nd edition)
11/2 The Budapest Gambit (DVD)
11/1 Rybka 3 (ChessBase)
10/31 Secrets of Opening Surprises, Volume 11
10/30 New In Chess Yearbook #92 (hardcover)
10/30 New In Chess Yearbook #92
10/30 New In Chess Yearbook #91
10/29 Scandinavian: The Easy Way, 2nd ed. (DVD)
10/28 The Queen's Gambit Declined Exchange Variation (DVD)
10/27 The Improving Chess Thinker (Heisman)
10/26 Arkhangelsk (DVD)
10/25 Starting Out: The Trompowsky Attack (Palliser)
10/24 Fighting the Ruy Lopez (Pavlovic)
10/23 1...e6: A Solid Repertoire against 1.d4 and 1.e4 (DVD)
10/22 Dangerous Weapons: The Pirc/Modern
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)
10/5 The Most Valuable Skills in Chess (Ashley)
10/4 B33 - Sicilian Defence
Puzzle Answer: 15.Bxf7+! Kxf7 16.Ng5+ Ke8 17.Qe6+ 1–0 Tal-Tringov, Amsterdam 1964 (Source: Improve Your Chess: By Learning from the Champions)
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