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(1-877-912-4377) Issue #32
November 25 - December 1
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 Art of It
One often hears that chess is an art, not a science, and that chess offers its followers beauty. Pachman's Verdict
The Sveshnikov is a sound system that is relatively easy to understand, but there are other systems that are easier to learn. Dangerous Brains
In some respects Luke McShane's new career will certainly be preferable to that of a professional chess player. Morphy's Ledger Column
From August 6, 1859 until August 4, 1860, Paul Morphy "conducted the Chess Department" in the New York Ledger. Hurry Up and Get It
If you understand the Scheveningen variation, you will also understand many other openings. Carlsen-Karjakin, Blitz 2009
Today's two-part video features the game Carlsen-Karjakin, World Blitz Championship 2009. Book Notes  In recent years the Scandinavian has been catapulted into the limelight, and it has now firmly established itself as an opening to be reckoned with. Moreover, it is easy to play! In the majority of lines Black relies upon the same system of development, and there is still relatively little theory when compared to mainline defenses to 1 e4. One further attraction is that it can lead to both tactical and positional play - there is something to suit all styles of player. Opening expert Jovanka Houska has successfully played both sides of the Scandinavian, and in Starting Out: The Scandinavian she reveals everything you need to know, whether you are playing it as Black or facing it with White. In the new book Bxh7+, David Rudel delivers a work aimed at all chess players. Bxh7+ is not so much a book, but a training kit demystifying Greco's sacrifice. Any serious player can now attain fluency with this tactic. Five easy lessons present essential guidelines, tools, and tips for both attackers and defenders. Also, just in is Rudel's expanded edition of Zuke 'Em. Newsletter subscribers who order Starting Out: The Scandinavian and The Scandinavian: The Easy Way (2nd ed. DVD) can save $5.00 off their order. Just add the items to your shopping cart and enter the coupon code "scandi5" (without the quotes) at checkout. This offer is only being made to subscribers and is valid until December 01, 2009.
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White to Move/Solution Below | | Playing chess at a professional level demands extreme concentration, intensity, and a complete absorption in another, artificial world. Genna Sosonko
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Reviews in Brief |  The Scheveningen Sicilian
by Lubomir Ftacnik The Slovakian grandmaster Lubomir Ftacnik begins this DVD by modestly telling the viewer that he will attempt to explain the ideas behind this fascinating line in the Sicilian, and that he will be happy if he accomplishes this goal, because he is constantly surprised by the new ideas that keep emerging, even though he has played the opening for many years. He also states that if you understand the Scheveningen variation, you will also understand many other openings, as the pawn structure and typical ideas share several similarities. While it is impossible to cover all of the lines in this strategically complex variation of the Sicilian Defense, even in seven hours, Ftacnik takes an amazingly thorough and deep stab at it, methodically explaining the typical ideas, and often using games that I had never seen before. This DVD is remarkably good. It is an absolute must-see for anyone playing the Open Sicilian as white or the lines without …g7-g6 as black. You will, as I have, walk away with a deeper understanding and knowledge about navigating these complex positions, which can be incredibly difficult to understand without proper guidance. Read the full review here. | | |
| | | New Catalog Additions 11/25 Attacking the Spanish
11/24 Foxy Openings Vol. 90: The Von-Hennig Schara Gambit Easily Explained (DVD)
11/23 Foxy Openings Vol. 89: The Baltic Defense Easily Explained (DVD)
11/22 222 Opening Traps after 1.e4
11/21 Starting out: the Scandinavian
11/20 Build Up Your Chess with Artur Yusupov, Volumes 1-3
11/20 Build Up Your Chess with Artur Yusupov, Volume 3
11/20 Build Up Your Chess with Artur Yusupov, Volume 2
11/20 Build Up Your Chess with Artur Yusupov, Volume 1
11/19 Secrets of Positional Play
11/18 The Scheveningen Sicilian (DVD)
11/16 My System (restock)
11/15 Botvinnik-Bronstein, Moscow 1951 (restock)
11/13 Chess Secrets: Great Attackers (Only $20.95!)
11/11 Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess, Part Three (Only $32.95!)
11/10 Shirov: My Best Games in the Gruenfeld (DVD)
11/9 Ftacnik: The Gruenfeld Defence (DVD)
11/8 Chess Tips for the Improving Player (Only $9.95!)
11/7 Grandmaster Repertoire: The English Opening (Only $21.95!)
11/6 Champions of the New Millennium (Only $23.95!)
11/5 Fundamental Chess Openings (Only $21.95!)
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)
10/25 Starting Out: The Trompowsky Attack (Palliser)
Puzzle Answer: 15.Bxh7+ Kxh7 16.Qh5+ Kg8 17.Bxg7 Kxg7 18.Qg4+ 1-0 Filatov-Mayer, Philadelphia 2000 (Source: Bxh7+)
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