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The paper mainly deals with a class of orientable surfaces in \(\mathbb{R}^3\) or \({ H}^3\), whose mean curvature \(H\) and Gaussian curvature \(K\) satisfy a relation of the form \(H=f(H^2-K)\), where \(f\) is a real smooth function defined on the interval \([0, +\infty)\), such that \(4t({f'}(t))^2 <1\). These surfaces are called special Weingarten surfaces or \(f\)-surfaces. In the first part some basic statements on special Weingarten surfaces are noted and the authors remark that maximum principle and Alexandrov reflection principle techniques can be applied to those surfaces, as these were applied to constant mean curvature surfaces. A complete description of known results for \(f\)-surfaces is given and some new results are derived. Also, some interesting open problems concerning the geometry of \(f\)-surfaces are presented. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0933.00013].