I just received the first issue of Susan Polgar’s free email Scholastic Newsletter. It’s fantastic! When I helped introduce her at the simul in the summer of 2004, I described her as one of the great world champions because of how much she has given back to (American) chess. And she continues to impress!
Her newest book has just been released, and my co-director Rick Martin is pretty impressed with it. Look for a review in a month or two when I can get hold of a copy…
Her latest endeavor is an email newsletter tailored to the scholastic community which has long been her passion. You can look at a pdf of the first issue here: http://bear.delawarechess.org/SP_Newsletter_June_2005_1.pdf
Contents:
I General Chess Tips
II Tactics and Combinations (exercises for varying levels up to about 1200 USCF)
III Endgame Corner (more exercises to help develop one’s knowledge of the endgame)
IV Opening Secrets (looking into the principles behind an opening. The first issue shows us the King’s Indian Attack for white vs. black’s French Defense)
V Questions from Parents and Coaches (some of these in the first issue have been taken from her ChessCafe column)
VI A detailed annotation (move by move!) of the game Susan Polgar – Pia Cramling, 1994. (All my students should look at this!)
VI Links, News, and Upcoming Events
and … 21 pages long!
Should you like what you see, you may subscribe by sending an email to Susan at either PolgarChessInc@aol.com or PolgarFoundation@aol.com
You can follow Susan’s interests at her websites:
www.PolgarChess.com
www.SusanPolgarFoundation.org
www.SusanPolgar.blogspot.com
Bob Wilder