It's officially pulled from the US Market. Many of you have been asking when Saitek would release or rather re-release the Mephisto Exclusive Senator. There has been a circuitry problem that is unidentified and apparently can't be reliably repaired without completely reworking the electronics.

Saitek has no plans to place this product on the market again. They are looking at new products for the new year however and a potential replacement of the Senator.

Fritz 10 is reaching customer's in the USA around November 15th according to the latest ChessBase update.

See great new features in Fritz 10 mentioned below! Well, in case you're wondering if you can upgrade your Fritz 8 or 9, the answer is no. ChessBase doesn't release upgrade versions for anything but their database products. The Fritz product is outstanding and relatively inexpensive, so for less than $50 every couple years, the latest, newly worked features are a bargain according to many.

Here's what's new in Fritz 10
Enhanced and improved chess engine developed especially for the 2006 Kramnik vs Fritz match; extended openings book; updated database; dynamic graphic tips for attack and defence; improved graphics and move entry on the 2D board; new high resolution 3D piece sets in classical wood; live display of the thinking process on the chessboard; more efficient position analysis. New chess server features: additional ranking lists, full rankings for all players, filters for challengers with bad Internet connections, new and simple video conference function, bullet lists in the engine room, animated global weather display, direct link to Google Earth.

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The judges said: "There is considerable instructional content in the book. But the winning factor for the judges was the sheer entertainment value - a rare commodity in the chess world these days."

A BIG chess match is in the making!

Forget the politics, who doesn't still remember Bobby Fischer? A high stakes match is in the making. Listen live to the latest details live with Ed Trice on chess.fm this Thursday night at 9 PM EST.

Just go to www.chess.fm and click on the listen link and you be sent a real-time streaming audio file of Ed live. There is also a live call in portion to the show to ask questions so feel free to do so.

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Chess puzzles can improve your chess in a BIG way. Solving a few puzzles per day will enhance your tactical abilites and recognition of patterns as well as speeding up your games. You won't have to sit there trying to analyze and calculate nearly as much. You'll find that studying these combinations will instantly help you spot more and more of the same positions in your own games.

You'll want to have the outstanding chess book combinations manual called Chess: 5,334 Problems, Combinations, and Games! This book does just what we talked about and enhances your pattern recognition abilities immensely. This book is great for all ages and levels. Whether you're a 1200 rated player, a 1800 club players, or even an expert. Children can even be assigned 10 to 20 problems per day in order to systematically help them in chess class or even at home. This chess book is very easy to understand, with virtually no text to read, and just 6 problems per page. The problems are well organized and ordered by how many moves and how difficult it is to find the solution.

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