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To make sure you receive these e-mails in your Inbox (and not a junk folder), please add "info@chesscafe.com" to your address book or safe sender list. This week's coupon code is "killer10". See below for details... Sale ends Tuesday, September 1, 2010. Enjoy great savings on these select products and more: B33 - Sicilian Defence Dangerous Weapons: The Sicilian Maroczy System (DVD) Play the Sicilian Kan Sicilian Dragon 1 Starting Out: Sicilian Najdorf This Week at ChessCafe.com The Other Guys Get your opening on the board as soon as possible. Surprise, Surprise! An opening surprise can come in all shapes and sizes. Openings Explained The Sicilian Kan Variation. Skittles Room Morphy's NY Ledger Column. Easy Peasy GM Soltis is the new Fred Reinfeld. Coffehouse King Jay King cannot remember the last time he lost at chess. Book Notes In the two-part DVD, Killer French Defence, Simon Williams guides you through Black's part in the French Defence. His frank, clear and understandable delivery of material of which he has extensive knowledge certainly aids the viewer in increasing their understanding of these opening lines. Simon's first DVD has been internationally acclaimed as setting new standards in this format for his clear approach to delivering sometimes complex material. Chapters are broken up through chess-related montages maintaining a viewing interest from start to finish. This feature is a standalone product running on all platforms and requiring no additional software. Purchase both volumes of Killer French and automatically save an extra $5.00!  The Modern Defence is a tough system based on counterattack. In this new three-volume Foxy Openings series IM Andrew Martin maps out a repertoire for Black for use by players of any level. The Modern creates difficult positions which are ideal if you want to play to win with Black. Buy any three Foxy Opening DVDs and automatically save 50% on a fourth!     We are pleased to offer ChessCafe.com customers the opportunity to save an extra ten percent off our already low price on the Killer Dutch DVD by Simon Williams! Simply add Killer Dutch to your shopping cart, along with Killer French Part One and Part Two, and, during the checkout process, enter the coupon code "killer10" (without the quotes) to receive an additional ten percent discount! This offer expires September 1, 2010 or while supplies last. Weekly Puzzle Quote of the Week White to Move/Solution Below Playing cowardly moves is a sure recipe for disaster. Boris Alterman The Alterman Gambit Guide: White Gambits Reviews in Brief Studying Chess Made Easy by Andrew Soltis OK, let's make it official, GM Soltis is the new Fred Reinfeld. That is no insult; Reinfeld produced some very good chess literature. Did he turn out potboilers too? Certainly. But much of value came from that old master, with such entertaining and well-crafted books as Hypermodern Chess, The Joys of Chess, and even those "1001" books. I thank him often for many of his books and re-read them even today. Soltis is skilled with words; his writing has an excellent, conversational tone. The last Soltis book I bought was Transpo Tricks in Chess: Finesse Your Chess Moves and Win I didn't learn one new thing from it - most of the tricks and traps and other neat possible transpositions were already known to me from years of playing, but I still loved the book. It was fun. Before that it was a more serious tome - Rethinking the Chess Pieces, from which I learned quite a bit, to make something of an understatement. There just doesn't seem to be a chess topic Soltis won't tackle. Most people do not have good study habits. That isn't a critique, but an observation based on my years of teaching. But most people can also be taught how to study more efficiently, and that is the subject of this book, which contains many helpful hints. One should not expect a book that lays out a study plan for you - it is a "hints, tips, and tricks" type of book. Read the full review here. New Catalog Additions 1-877-91-CHESS 9/1 Killer French Defence, Part Two (DVD) 9/1 Killer French Defence, Part One (DVD) 8/30 Foxy Openings Volume 110: Modern Defence, Part Three (DVD) 8/30 Foxy Openings Volume 109: Modern Defence, Part Two (DVD) 8/30 Foxy Openings Volume 108: Modern Defence, Part One (DVD) 8/29 Foxy Openings Volume 107: Beating the Queen's Gambit with the Semi-Slav (DVD) 8/28 Foxy Openings Volume 106: 1.b4 The Sokolsky (DVD) 8/28 Roman's Lab: Vol. 99, Simple Way To Play Against Slav Systems (DVD) 8/27 How to Win at Chess - Quickly! 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